Jack of Diamonds

Alexandra Exter:
theater costume (1916)

Aristarch Lentulow:
Woman with a Guitar (1913)

Poster for the 2nd dispute in the Polytechnic Museum , Moscow 1913 (illustration after a book cover)

The Karo-Bube ( Russian Бубно́вый вале́т ; wiss. Transliteration Bubnovyj valet ; German also Karobube ) was an artist group existing in Moscow from 1910 to 1917, named after the art exhibition of the same name in 1910/1911 in Moscow. It is considered an essential part of the Russian avant-garde in the first two decades of the 20th century.

history

The name of the artist group, which refers to the playing card diamonds - Jack refers was because of the connotation of "rogue" provocative as was highlighted in Tsarist Russia the prison uniform with a sewn black square and in the French card players jargon of the Jack of Diamonds was associated with the scam. Jack is also to be understood as a symbol of youth and enthusiasm.

The boys of diamonds were based on Paul Cézanne's post-impressionism , Fauvism and Cubism , but also on the traditions of the Russian Lubok and the design of popular toys.

The first members were painters from Moscow, later artists from Saint Petersburg and other Russian cities as well as from Germany and France were added. In 1912 the brothers Dawid and Wladimir Burljuk , who tended towards primitivism , cubofuturism and abstract painting , as well as Natalija Goncharova , Kazimir Malevich and Michail Larionow left the group to found the independent Donkey Tail Association .

The group of boys of diamonds existed until December 1917. They organized a total of six exhibitions, including a traveling exhibition, plus three lecture events, the disputes , in the Polytechnic Museum , Moscow. In March 1927, a retrospective exhibition of the group's artists was held in the Tretyakov Gallery .

Members

Members of the Russian avant-garde groups

Jack of Diamonds : David Burljuk Vladimir Burlyuk Pyotr Konchalovsky Aristarch Lentulov Ilya Mashkov

Donkey tail : Natalia Goncharova Mikhail Larionov Kazimir Malevich

Other Russian exhibitors:

• Alexandra Exter
• Alexej Alexejewitsch Morgunow
• Lyubov Popova
• Olga Rosanova
• Vasily Roshdestvensky
• Nadezhda Udaltsova

as well as the cubists Henri Le Fauconnier , Jean Metzinger , Albert Gleizes and Léopold Survage , as well as the members of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München : Wladimir Georgijewitsch Bechtejew , Erma Bossi , Adolf Erbslöh , Alexej Jawlensky , Wassily Kandinsky , Alexander Kanoldkin , Gabriele Müfnter and Marianne von Weref .

literature

• Gleb G. Pospelow: Jack of Diamonds: from the history of Moscow painting at the beginning of the 20th century . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1985.
• 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
• Jack of Diamonds. In: Christoph Wilhelmi: Groups of artists in Eastern and Southern Europe. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7762-1101-6 , pp. 210-216.
• The great utopia. The Russian avant-garde 1915–1932 . Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 698, 703 (exhibition catalog).
• Kindler's Painting Lexicon . DTV, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-423-05995-8 .

Web links

• PW Hartmann: Karobube . In: The great art dictionary
• Knave of Diamonds on the InCoRM website, International Chamber of Russian Modernism (English); Retrieved October 28, 2013.
• Jack (Knave) of Diamonds - Bubnovy Valet on the Russian Avant-Garde Gallery website; accessed on October 25, 2013.
• Bubnovyj valet. The Knave of Diamonds. Special issue of Tetryakov Gallery Magazine, 2005; Retrieved October 28, 2013 (English, Russian).
• Устав общества художников "Бубновый валет" . Moskva 1911 . Articles of Association of the Association. Retrieved October 28, 2013 (Russian).
• Каталог выставки картин общества художников "Бубновый валет" Moskva 1914 . Catalog of the 1914 exhibition (Russian); Retrieved October 28, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Valentine Marcadé, Le renouveau de l'art pictural russe, 1863-1914, Lausanne 1971, pp. 314-316