Ivan Puni
Ivan Puni Albertovich (Russian: Иван ( Жан ) Альбертович Пуни, scientific transliteration Ivan ( Žan ) Al'bertovič Puni, . * 20 Februarjul / March 3 1892greg in Kuokkala (now Repino ). † December 28, 1956 in Paris; Ivan Puni Puni or even Jean ) was a Russian painter who belonged to the Russian avant-garde, and a representative of Futurism was.
Life and work
Puni's family had Italian roots. Ivan Puni was the grandson of the Italian composer Cesare Pugni.
After a brief artistic training, including at the Académie Julian in Paris Puni returned 1912/1913 to St. Petersburg back. Together with the painter and stage designer Xenia Boguslavskaya, with whom he had been married since 1913, he organized there, among others, the two main exhibitions of the Russian avant-garde " Tramway V " and the last futurist exhibition " 00:10 " in 1915. Latter provided the breakthrough to nonobjective painting dar. this exhibition showed Kazimir Malevich suprematist painting his "Black Square", which is one of the major works of this art movement. Parallel to this exhibition authored Puni, Boguslavskaya, Malevich and Ivan Vasilyevich Kljun the " Manifesto on the zero point of the painting." After the Russian Revolution he taught in 1919, inter alia, at the art school in Vitebsk under the direction of Marc Chagall.
Puni lived from 1920 in Berlin, where he actively participated in the artistic life of the avant-garde. DC In 1921 he had a solo exhibition at Herwarth Walden's gallery "Der Sturm". He transformed the gallery into a work of art and let cubist dressed sandwich - men run to the Kurfürstendamm.
On the large First Russian Art Exhibition Berlin 1922 "Synthetic musician " was shown as one of his most famous works in the Department November Group. Some of his paintings, completed the cubist and realistic elements combined with each other, as well as the transition to the abstract art of Suprematism, belong to the part of European avant-garde of the 20th century. It seemed a matter of " form by the color and its modulation " to create.
1924 emigrated Puni permanently in Paris, where he had been in 1910/11 studied. He only took the name Jean Puni and received in 1946 the French nationality. Puni died in 1956 in Paris.
Study for sculpture in relief (1916 )
Relief ( 1915-16 )