Vasily Nikolayevich Masjutin

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Vasily Nikolajewitsch Masjutin (born January 29, 1884 in Riga , Russian Empire ; died November 25, 1955 in Berlin ) was a Russian-German artist.

Life

Masjutin was the son of a general and grew up in Kiev and Moscow . In St. Petersburg he attended the cadet institute and the military school. In 1907 he gave up his career as a soldier and studied from 1910 to 1912 at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Sergei Vasiliwitsch Ivanov . Vladimir Mayakovsky and Dawid Burljuk were fellow students. He became an important engraver. From 1914 to 1917 he was drafted as a soldier.

Masjutin became a teacher at the Wchutemas at the end of the war . During the Russian Civil War he emigrated to Riga in 1920 and to Berlin the following year. There he devoted himself to painting , sculpture and especially graphics .

He mainly illustrated texts by Russian authors: Alexander Alexandrowitsch Blok , Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski , Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol , Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskow , Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin , Alexei Michailowitsch Remisow , Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy and Ivan Sergejewitsch Turgenew . Occasionally he designed sets and theater costumes , including for Michael Chekhov in Paris. Masjutin was under the influence of contemporary art movements such as symbolism , surrealism and expressionism . He also published his own short stories, short stories and novels translated into German. In the 1930s he also had commissions as a commercial artist. From 1939 to 1943 he exhibited at the Association of Berlin Artists . In 1945 he was imprisoned by the Soviet military administration for more than a year in the Sachsenhausen special camp on charges of contacts with Ukrainian nationalists . At the end of the 1940s he made the funerary monument for Michail Glinka in Berlin-Tegel and had orders for the sculptural design of the Soviet embassy in Berlin .

Works (selection)

  • Tomas B'juik, chudožnik-graver [1753–1828]: Opytakteristiki masterstva gravjury i krit. Obzor proizvedenij T. B'juika . Berlin 1923. GoogleBooks
  • The double man , Roman. Translation Gustav Specht. Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1925.
  • Gravjura i litografija. Kratkoe rukovodstvo . Moscow, Berlin 1922.
  • Woodcuts for Viktor Zobel: Aesop's fables after Steinhöwel's renewed Esopus . 1938.
  • Woodcuts to Wolfgang Kraus : sword and plow . Berlin 1939.
  • Eight woodcuts on Anton Chekhov : The Persian Order and other grotesques , Berlin 1922

Exhibitions

  • Masjutin's illustration work, Kunsthaus Lübeck 1987.

literature

  • E. Račeeva: Masjutin, Vasilji Nikolaevič . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 87, de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-023253-0 , p. 460 f.
  • Waltraud Werner: Wassili Masjutin 1884–1955, a Russian artist 1922–1955 in Berlin . Berlin 2003.
  • Xenia Werner: Wassili Masjutin in Riga, Moscow and Berlin - his life in pictures and documents . Berlin 1989.
  • Xenia Werner: Vasilij Masjutin's book illustrations in Russian Berlin , in: Thomas R. Beyer; Gottfried Kratz; Xenia Werner: Russian authors and publishers in Berlin after the First World War . Berlin: Berlin-Verl. Spitz, 1987 ISBN 3-87061-327-0 , pp. 187-245

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ BSZ Baden-Württemberg
personal data
SURNAME Masjutin, Vasily Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Masjutin, Vasilij Nikolaevič; Masjutin, Vasilij Nikolaevič; Masjutyn, Wasyl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German graphic artist, painter, draftsman, sculptor and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1955
Place of death Berlin