Mikhail Larionov

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russian: Михаил Фёдорович Ларионов; scientific transliteration Mikhail Larionov Fedorovic; * 22 Maijul / June 3 1881greg in Tiraspol, Moldova today, .. † May 10, 1964 in Fontenay -aux -Roses near Paris ) was a Russian painter who belonged to the Russian avant-garde. He is considered the founder of the Rayonism.

Life

Larionov studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she learned in 1900 Natalija Goncharova know. In 1906, he traveled for the first time to Paris. Influenced by the artistic currents of Western European art, he founded in 1910 together with Natalia Goncharova, the artists union Jack of Diamonds, from the beginning of 1912, however, they parted again, to found the Association donkey dick. On the first exhibition target they showed rayonistische images for the first time.

Sergei Diaghilev in 1914 dedicated Larionov and Goncharova as a costume and set designer for the Ballets Russes. From this collaboration Diaghilev freshness and spontaneity promised. So Larionov created simultaneously vulgar and sophisticated costumes, among other things Soleil de Nuit (1915), Histoires Naturelles (1915, not produced ), Chout (1921) and Le Renard (1922 ).

Larionov was drafted in 1914 and fought at the front until after a serious injury in 1915 was demobilized.

1915 Larionov and Goncharova left Russia and lived from 1918 in her Paris apartment on the ' rue de Seine ' corner ' rue Jacques Callot '.

Mikhail Larionov had a younger brother, Ivan Larionov (1884-1920), who was also an avant-garde painter.