Tatlin's Tower

The Monument to the Third International 0 10 (Russian: Проект памятника III Коммунистического Интернационала ) or Tatlin's Tower was a 400 m high tower project of Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin Yevgrafovich from the year 1917.

The 5 -meter-high model " with full force " was in 1919 by Tatlin for the III. International designed and should be erected in Petrograd. The original is lost and disappeared probably too Tatlin's lifetime in a museum depot.

Architecture

The tower should be a gigantic machine that house meeting rooms, elevators, stairs and a radio station and their column inside to adjust itself according to the stars should. The ambitious architectural project was not built due to cost reasons, but is still regarded as an architectural icon.

Tatlin's work should reflect the dynamics of the revolution. It should consist of industrial materials: iron, glass and steel. The design called for a helically wound steel structure through which an oblique pole goes to the turn three glass body.

Surrounded by the double spiral cylinder, pyramid and hemisphere were planned so that they rotate at different speeds. The restaurant and meeting rooms on the first plateau should turn once a month on its own axis. The middle part had turned after a week on its own axis, while the glass cylinder had rotated once on the top, on the day.

Hardly a lost work of art has since been repeatedly reconstructed, because it represents the dawn of a new age. Based on the information required by Lenin monument propaganda, which should be heroic, revolutionary, plastic, Tatlin tried to create the symbol of a new society. Technically, the tower was - according to a Soviet expert - quite feasible, but the apparatchiks still wanted something Bomba Tischeres, a 500 meters high sloping skyscraper that was habitable. Tatlin, however, only wanted to create a work of art.

Criticism

Critics thought the sight of the model immediately to the Tower of Babylon. The People's Commissar Leon Trotsky called the Tatlin's Tower a "giant thermos bottle ".

The model of the Tatlin Tower caught in 1925 at the World Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris sensation. Today, the Tatlin's Tower is considered a culmination of early Soviet art and as a symbol of their heaven-storming ideas and their lack of practicability.