Olga Vladimirovna Rosanova

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Self-Portrait (1911)

Olga Rozanova ( Russian Ольга Владимировна Розанова ) (born June 21, jul. / 3. July  1886 greg. In Melenki , Vladimir Oblast , Russia , † 8. November 1918 in Moscow ) was a Russian painter , book illustrator, poet and art theorist , whose works are assigned to the styles of Suprematism , Neoprimitivism and Cubofuturism .

life and work

From 1905 Rosanova attended a school in Moscow led by the artists Konstantin Juon and Iwan Dudin together with Nadezhda Udalzowa .

At the same time, she studied applied arts between 1904 and 1912 at the Bolshakov School and the Stroganov School of Applied Arts in Moscow. In 1910 she moved from Moscow to Petersburg , where she became a founding member of the artists' association “Union of Youth” ( Russian Союз Молодежи ).

Between 1912 and 1913 he studied at the Swanzewa Art School in St. Petersburg. During this time she made friends with Velimir Khlebnikov and Kazimir Malevich . Between 1911 and 1917 Rosanova took part in the exhibitions of the Union of Youth , as well as in several avant-garde exhibitions such as Tramway V , 0.10 , Jack of Diamonds ( Russian Бубновый Валет ).

In 1913, drawings by Rosanova for the poetry book Ein Entennest von Bad Words by Alexej Krutschonych for the Italian artist and founder of Futurism Marinetti were mounted in the book pages as a picture. This book project meant major innovations for typography and book art. It sums up "all the currents of Russian avant-garde painting of 1913, so to speak: next to rayonism one can find neoprimitivism and cubofuturism with its abundance of forms ... Sometimes there is a pure illustration without text in which one can determine an influence of rayonism, sometimes - and this is an essential novelty - the sheet consists of hand-painted text with color running through it. "

At the beginning of 1914, five of her works were shown at the “International Futurist Exhibition” organized by Marinetti in Rome, including the illustrations for the book “Entennest” by her husband Alexej Krutschonych poet of futurism, whom she married in 1916.

In 1915 she turned to the non-representational art form and in 1916 worked on the first (unpublished) number of the Suprematist magazine "Supremus".

In 1918 she became a member of the Industrial Art Department of the ISO (Russian Изобразительный Отдел ) and worked at SWOMAS in various provincial towns. In Bogorodsk she made designs for textiles together with Alexandra Exter . In addition, she participated in various actions of the Proletkult . The collaboration with Rodschenko led to an increasingly abstract working style, the compositions were created from the visual weighting and interplay of colors. The First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1922 showed her paintings Composition , Suprematism , Fugur but also other works such as Suprematic decoration , book sheets and embroidery designs .

In her last years, Rosanova was mainly active in the fields of design , fashion and book illustration .

In 1918, at the age of 32, she fell victim to a diphtheria epidemic in Russia .

In 1946, a constructivist image of Olga Rozanowa carelessly thrown away aroused George Costakis ' interest in the Russian avant-garde. Thereupon he also acquired the works of other artists.

Works (selection)

  • 1910 urban landscape
  • 1913 Drawings for the poetry book Ein Entennest von Bad Words by Alexej Krutschonych, collage, gouache, 91 × 67 cm, Marinetti Collection, Rome - Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne - 1982 Ludwig Collection, Cologne
  • 1915 Metronome , oil, 52.2 cm × 41 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  • 1916 The Universal War , album by Alexej Krutschonych with 12 colored collages by Olga Rozanowa, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne - 1980 Collection Ludwig, Cologne, Dep. Coll. L 1989/516
  • 1916 Writing Desk
  • Rote Fahne (around 1916; 41 × 51 cm; private collection)

gallery

  • The forge (1912)

  • Sideboard with dishes (1915)

  • Suprematism (1916)

  • Abstract Composition (1916)

  • Study (1917)

Exhibitions

  • 1980 women artists of the Russian avant-garde 1910-1930 , Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne
  • 1986 Russian avant-garde 1910-1930 Collection Ludwig Cologne , Kunsthalle Cologne

Collections

literature

  • Book for the exhibition 16. Russian Avantgarde 1910-1930 Collection Ludwig, Cologne , in the Kunsthalle Cologne, April 16 - May 11, 1986 (edited and with an introduction by Evelyn Weiss )
  • Beat Wismer : Karo-Dame: constructive, concrete and radical art by women from 1914 to today , Lars Müller publishing house, Baden, 1995, ISBN 3-906700-95-X

Web links

Commons : Olga Rozanova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John E. Bowlt, Matthew Drutt (ed.): Amazons of the Avant-Garde. Alexandra Exter, Natalja Goncharova, Lyubov Popova, Olga Rosanowa, Varwara Stepanowa and Nadeschda Udalzowa. New York 1999. p. 45
  2. ↑ JC Marcade, text for the exhibition of the work at the art fair Basel 1980th
  3. ↑ Uwe M. Schneede (ed.): Chagall, Kandinsky, Malewitsch and the Russian avant-garde , Verlag Gerd Hatje, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ISBN 3-7757-0797-2 , p. 224
personal data
SURNAME Rosanova, Olga Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Розанова, Ольга Владимировна; Rozanowa, Olga Vladimirovna (full name); Rozanova, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter, poet and art theorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Melenki
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1918
Place of death Moscow