Olga Rozanova
Olga Vladimirovna Rosanowa (Russian Ольга Владимировна Розанова ) (*. Junijul 21 / July 3 1886greg in Melenki, Vladimir Oblast, Russia, . † November 8, 1918 in Moscow) was a Russian painter, poet and art theorist, whose work in distinguished style of Suprematism, Neo-Primitivism and Cubo-Futurism.
Life
From 1905 visited Rosanowa together with Nadezhda Udal'tsova in Moscow led by the artists Konstantin Yuon and Ivan Dudin school.
At the same time she graduated between 1904 and 1912, a study of applied arts at the Bolshakov School and at the Stroganov School of Applied Art in Moscow. In 1910 she moved from Moscow to Petersburg to Petrograd at the time, where she was a founding member of the Artists' Association "Union of Youth " (Russian Союз Молодежи ).
Between 1912 and 1913 he studied at the Art School Swanzewa in St. Petersburg. During this time she became friends with Velimir Khlebnikov and Kasimir Malevich. Between 1911 and 1917 Rosanowa participated in the exhibitions of the Association of Youth in part, as well as several avant-garde exhibitions such as Tramway V, 0.10 Jack of Diamonds (Russian Бубновый Валет ).
In 1913, drawings were Rosanowas A duck nest of bad words of Alexei Kruchenykh for the Italian artist and founder of the Futurist Marinetti assembled for the book of poetry in the book pages as image. This book project meant significant changes for the typography and the book art. It sums up "so to speak, all currents of the Russian avant-garde painting of 1913 together: in addition to the Rayonism find the Neo-Primitivism and Cubo-Futurism, with its abundance of forms ... Sometimes there is a pure illustration without text, in which one can find an influence of Rayonism, sometimes - and this is a major new feature - there is a sheet of hand-painted text, which is crossed by color. "
Beginning of 1914, five of her works shown on the by Marinetti in Rome organized the "International Futuristenausstellung ", so the illustrations for the book " ducks nest " of her husband Aleksei Kruchenykh, poet of Futurism, whom she married in 1916.
In 1915, she turned to the nonrepresentational art form, and worked in 1916 at the first ( unpublished ) number of Suprematist magazine " Supremus " with.
In 1918 she became a member in the Department of Industrial Art (ISO, russ Изобразительный Отдел ) and worked on the SVOMAS in various provincial towns. In Bogorodsk she made together with Alexandra Exter designs for textiles. They also participated in various actions of the cult of the proletariat. Cooperation with Rodchenko led to a more abstract style of work, the compositions were created from the visual weighting and combination of colors. The First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1922 showed her paintings Composition, Suprematism, Fugur but other works such as Suprematist decoration, beech leaves and embroidery designs.
In her last years Rosanowa was mainly active in the fields of design, fashion and book illustration.
In 1918, at the age of 32 years, she has been the victim of a diphtheria epidemic in Russia.
A carelessly discarded constructivist picture of Olga Rozanowa aroused in 1946 when George Costakis interest in the Russian avant-garde, in a row, he also studied the works of other artists and acquired.
Works (selection)
Exhibitions
Collections
- Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
- Collection of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne