David Burliuk

David Davidovich Burliuk (Russian Давид Давидович Бурлюк; scientific transliteration David Burliuk Davidovič; * 9 Julijul / July 21 1882greg in Semirotowschtschina, Kharkov Governement, .. † January 15, 1967 in Long Iceland, New York ) was a Russian- American poet and visual artist, who was one of the Russian avant-garde. His siblings Lyudmila, Vladimir and Nikolai were also Avantgardeküstler.

Life and work

David Burliuk visited 1898-1902 alternately the art schools in Kazan and Odessa. Together with his brother Wladimir Burliuk, he studied from 1902 in Munich at the school of Anton Ažbe and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Wilhelm von Diez, 1904/ 05 under Fernand Cormon at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts in Paris.

1907 Burliuk returned back to Russia. There he became a leading figure of the avant-garde. Burliuk was a co-founder and member of avant-garde artistic associations ( Hylaea, donkey tail) and participated in several avant-garde exhibitions: The Wreath (Russian Венок ) in Moscow ( 1907-1908 ), The Triangle (Russian Треугольник ) in St. Petersburg ( 1910), Jack of Diamonds, the League of Youth (Russian Союз Молодежи ) ( 1910-1912 ). In 1908 he organized the exhibition Sweno in Kiev, to which he also published his first manifesto.

1911 Burliuk wrote a post for the catalog of the second exhibition of the New Artists ' Association of Munich ( NKVM ) and 1912 the contribution of the "savages" of Russia for the Almanac The Blue Rider; in the exhibition of the artist group the painting head and horses were shown in the almanac of the head was reproduced. In 1913 he took together with brother Wladimir at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin gallery "Der Sturm" by Herwarth Walden in part, by him five images were offered for sale. In collaboration with the poets Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vasily Kamensky and he organized 1913/1914 a tour of the Futurists by 17 Russian cities.

David Burliuk was author of many futuristic publications ( The Roaring Parnassus, The Altar Book of Three, Garden of the judges and others); From 1915 he was editor of the First Futurist journals and from 1918 editor of the newspaper of the Futurists.

After he stayed during the October Revolution from 1917 to 1919 in the Urals and Siberia, he decided to leave Russia. In the years 1920-1922 he traveled to Japan and the South Pacific and emigrated in 1922 for the rest of his life in the United States.

Works

• NA Zubkova (ed.): Fragmenty iz vospominanij futurista. 1994

From left: Benedict Livshitz, Vladimir Burliuk, Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk, Alexei Kruchenykh ( 1912 )

David Burliuk: Spring (1914 )

David Burliuk: Dokhlaya Luna (1914 )

David Burliuk: Portrait of Vasily Kamensky (1917 )

David Burliuk: Mayakovsky (1920 )