Sergei Wassiljewitsch Czech

Sergei Czech

Sergey Chekhonin ( Russian Сергей Васильевич Чехонин * 1878 at the train station Waldaika the Nikolajewsker railway line between Moscow and St. Petersburg runs; † 23. February 1936 in Loerrach , Germany) was a Soviet painter , graphic artist and designer of the State Porcelain Factory in St Petersburg.

Live and act

Czechonin began his studies at an art school in Leningrad and continued it with the artist Tenischew in Moscow. In 1904 he participated as an employee of the ceramic workshop of Abramzewo among other things, on the façade of the famous Hotel Metropol in Moscow. From 1913 to 1917 he was the head of enamel processing in a workshop in Rossow near Yaroslavl .

Political upheaval

The rule of the workers will not end in 1922, by Sergei Chechonin

In 1918, Sergei Chechonin rose to head the State Porcelain Manufactory in St. Petersburg. The former imperial factory was nationalized, placed under the Commissariat for Education and was in artistic upheaval in times of civil war and the October Revolution . The porcelain designers incorporated the political mood into their work. They painted plates, bowls and jugs made of white porcelain, which were originally intended for decoration with portraits of nobility or ball scenes, now with agitation slogans . These works were distributed in large numbers to shops and displayed in the shop windows as political posters.

The Czechs' works show a strict graphic style. In addition to high-contrast black and white paintings, he worked with artful fonts, combined with political slogans and symbols. He often used lavish gold engravings, the so-called etching .

In the twenties, the new politically influenced art form of the Soviet avant-garde became world-famous, the export of which brought the Soviet Union high revenues.

In 1928 the Czech emigrated to Paris . His works can be seen in the State Museum Kuskovo in Moscow.

literature

• Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe: Russian Porcelain Edition Braus, 1991, ISBN 3-923132-19-0
• Boris Brodski Art Treasures of Moscow VEB EASeemann-Verlag Leipzig 1986 ISBN 3-363-0002-7-8
• Abram Ephros , Nikolaj Punin : S. Chekhonin / С. Чехонин. State Press, Moscow 1923/24

Web links

Commons : Sergei Wassiljewitsch Czechonin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chekhonin, Sergei Vasil'evich , The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
• The Porcelain Collection: Porcelain 1917–1925 , The Museum of the Imperial State Porcelain Factory, Hermitage (Saint Petersburg)
• Chekhonin SV (1878–1936), artist , Encyclopaedia of St. Petersburg