Stenberg brothers
Vladimir Awgustowitsch Stenberg ( Russian Владимир Августович Стенберг ; born March 23, jul. / 4. April 1899 greg. In Moscow ; † 1. May 1982 ibid) and Georgi Stenberg Awgustowitsch ( Russian Георгий Августович Стенберг ; born October 7, jul. / 20 October 1900 greg. In Moscow; † October 15, 1933 ) were Swedish - Russian graphic artists .
Life
The parents of the Stenberg brothers were the Swedish artist August Stenberg, who came to Nizhny Novgorod in 1898 to design decorations at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, and his Russian wife. The brothers studied from 1912 to the October Revolution of 1917 at the Imperial Stroganov Central College for Art and Industry in Moscow and then until 1920 at the state independent art workshops (SwoMas) . They turned to constructivism and created abstract color constructions made of glass, metal and wood and industrial models. They took part in revolutionary agitprop activities and designed decorations and posters for the celebration of May 1, 1918. Her younger sister Lidija (1902–1982) also became a graphic artist.
The brothers were members of the Association of Young Artists (OBMOChU) (1919 – around 1921), the Institute for Art and Culture (INChUK) (1921–1924) and October (since 1928). From 1919 they exhibited in the Association of Avant-garde Artists, in 1922 at the First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin and in 1925 at the Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris . 1929–1932 they taught at the Moscow Institute of Architecture and Construction . They designed the sets in Tairow's Moscow Chamber Theater for AB Marienhof's Babylonian Advocates (1924), Charles Lecocq's Le Jour et la Nuit (1926), Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and Desire Under the Elms (1926) and The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil (1930).
The Stenberg brothers became particularly well known since 1923 for the many cinema posters for the films by Eisenstein , Pudowkin , Dsiga Wertow , Charlie Chaplin , Buster Keaton and others, which they provided with their logo 2-Стенберг-2 in the style of circus posters .
Less well known is the collaboration of the Stenberg brothers on projects by the architects Leonid, Wiktor and Alexander Wesnin , Nikolai Ladowski , Nikolai Kolli and Arkady Mordvinov .
The brothers gave up their Swedish citizenship in 1933 and became citizens of the Soviet Union . Georgi Stenberg died in 1933 when he hit a truck on his motorcycle. The set designer Enar Georgijewitsch Stenberg (1929–2002) was his son.
Vladimir Stenberg was the chief artist of the Moscow All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition (predecessor of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy ) (since 1935) and the Moscow Mayakovsky Museum (since 1941). His main activity was the design of demonstrations for the strict program of socialist realism as chief artist for Moscow's Red Square (1932–1962). He also designed exhibitions ranging from abstract constructions to painted dioramas and murals for the Frunze Museum in Schuja . 1968–1980 he occupied himself with the reconstruction of his earlier abstract constructions, but also with theater designs. 1973–1974 the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra showed its KPS 11: Construction of a spatial apparatus no. 11 (1919–1920) made of steel, glass, paint and plaster on wood.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e СТЕНБЕРГИ Stenberg Vladimir, Stenberg Georgi (accessed on November 11, 2016).
- ^ Georgij and Vladimir Stenberg. Life and Work (accessed November 11, 2016).
- ↑ Christopher Mount, Peter Kenez: Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design . The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1997, ISBN 0-87070-051-0 .
- ↑ М. Краснова: Источники плакатов “2 Стенберг 2” (accessed November 11, 2016).
- ↑ Иллюстрации к статье "Источники плакатов« 2 Стенберг 2 »" (accessed November 11, 2016).
- ↑ С. О. Хан-Магомедов: Архитектура советского авангарда: Книга 1: Проблемы формообразования. Мастера и течения . Стройиздат, Moscow 1996, ISBN 5-274-02045-3 .