Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay - Terk (Russian Соня Делоне - Терк; born November 14, 1885 in Gradischsk near Odessa, Ukraine, † December 5, 1979 in Paris) was a Russian-French painter and designer. Birth name: Sarah (other indication: Sophia ) Ilinitchna star. Name change after adoption by her uncle: Sonia Terk.
Life and work
After studying in St. Petersburg and at several German academies ( including in Karlsruhe) was Sonia Terk in 1904 to Paris, where they 1908 the art dealer Wilhelm Uhde married. After this short-lived first marriage in 1910 she married the painter Robert Delaunay. Her artistic models include Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.
Shortly after their arrival in Paris, it rises to one of the most experimental artists in Paris. She worked closely with the 1913 Swiss poet Blaise Cendrars together, with whom she developed the idea of Simultaneism. An important example of this cross-genre collaboration is the first simultaneous book titled Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France.
From 1912, they developed the so-called Orphism with her husband Robert Delaunay. This is an outgoing from Cubism variant of abstract painting in the mainly circular formations in bright colors based on the color system of the chemist Eugène Chevreul were created. The aim of Orphism was pure music to oppose a pure painting. Due to their significant contributions to the development of an abstract painting (especially the geometric abstraction ), it is still regarded not only as one of the first female representatives, but rather as an important pioneer of this new art direction. During the First World War from 1914 to 1918 she lived in Spain and Portugal.
After returning to France, she remained faithful to the abstract style than her husband. The artistic ideas Sonia Delaunay found later use in their designer works of theater decorations and costumes. So she designed, among other things in 1968 from the ballet Danses Concertantes of the Russian composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky. In addition, Sonia Delaunay- Terk finished fabric designs, for example, the French actor and author Jean Poiret. In 1975, she was awarded membership in the French Legion of Honour. In 1976, she bequeathed the Centre Georges Pompidou their entire graphic oeuvre. Sonia Delaunay - Terk died on December 5, 1979 in Paris.
Famous Works
Exhibitions
- Sonia Delaunay's art world, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, November 30, 2008 to February 22, 2009