Elena Guro

Jelena Genrichovna Guro (Russian: Елена Генриховна Гуро; Eleonora note Berg) (born 18 Maijul / May 30 1877greg in Saint Petersburg, .. .. † 23 Apriljul / May 6 1913greg in Uusikirkko, Grand Duchy of Finland ) was a Russian painter, book illustrator and author.

Together with her ​​partner and later husband Mikhail Matjuschin she attended the private art school of Elizabeth Swanzewa (1864-1922) in St. Petersburg in 1906. They joined together with it in the years 1909 and 1910 an Impressionist by Nikolai Kulbin and presented together with him.

Yelena Guro was an all-rounder. She was a respected, influential poet, and in her painting she was their contemporaries, such as Matjuschin wrote in his memoirs that as the " conscience of the Cubo-Futurism ". She had a very close relationship with nature, and looked so in their artistic expression temporary nature and structural features of the natural implemented.

Works

• Elena Guro: Songs of the City. Prose and drawings from the Russ. and with a pref by Peter Urban, Berlin: Friedensau Press 2003 ISBN 3-932109-33-3
• Drawings Russian poet / Elena Guro ... First, second. Selected. and ed. by Jutta Hercher and Peter Urban, Hamburg: Material -Verl. 1998 ISBN 3-932395-03-4
• Hurdy-gurdy, 1909 (Russian)
• Autumn Dream, 1912 (Russian)
• Heavenly camel foals, 1914 ( posthumously, Russian)