Sergei Yuryevich Sudeikin

Nikolai Kulbin : Sergei Sudeikin (1913)

Self-portrait (without year)

Les contes d'Hoffmann (1915)

Mime (1914)

Sergei Yuryevich Sudeikin ( Russian Сергей Юрьевич Судейкин ; born March 7 ^{. Jul} / 19th March  1882 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † 12. August 1946 in Nyack , New York ) was a Russian painter and stage designer.

Life

Sergei Sudeikin studied painting at the Moscow Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1897 to 1909 , but was temporarily expelled from school because of his painting, which was considered obscene. Until 1911 he was still at the Petersburg Art Academy . He was involved in various exhibitions and at times a member of the artist group Mir Iskusstwa (World of Art). He became friends with Sergei Djagilew and a male friendship with the poet Mikhail Alexejewitsch Kuzmin , who also had a close relationship with Sudeikin's first wife Olga Glebowa (1885–1945). Sudeikin's second wife, the dancer Vera de Bosset , whom he married in 1915, was also an admirer of the poet. Vera, for her part, met Igor Stravinsky in 1920 and then left Sudeikin.

On Dyagilev's recommendation, Sudeikin exhibited at the Paris Salon d'Automne in 1906 . In 1913 Sudeikin designed the sets and costumes for Djagilev's production of Florent Schmitt's La Tragédie de Salomé and worked on Nicholas Roerich's designs for Igor Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps . In Tsarist Russia he was one of the most important stage designers. During the Russian Revolution in 1917 he went to Crimea and Tbilisi and emigrated to Paris in 1920. From there he moved to the USA in 1922.

In New York, Sudeikin received orders for stage sets at the Metropolitan Opera . In 1926 he was artistic director for the Broadway production of Nikolai Evreinov's The Chief Thing , and in 1935 he was involved in the set design for the New York premiere production of Porgy and Bess .

literature

• Peter Leek: Russian painting . Translated from English: M. Goch. Ho Chi Minh City: Baseline, 2005, ISBN 1-85995-944-X , p. 263.

Web links

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