Vadym Meller

Vadim Meller (Russian Вадим Меллер; * 14 Apriljul / April 26 1884greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † 4 May 1962 Kiev ) was a Ukrainian- Russian painter of the USSR and avant-garde artist ( Cubism, Constructivism ), stage sets, book illustrator and architect.

He was the first artist to whom a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (Art Deco) was granted ( in 1925 in Paris).

Biography

Meller was the second son of a high official of the Russian Ministry of Justice. His father, George Meller, came from a Swedish noble family, his mother, Helena Caruso, who was half Italian and half Greek, was also from the nobility.

Meller studied 1903-1908 at the University of Kiev.

1905 Meller visited Geneva, where he took private lessons with Franz Roubaud.

1908, with the recommendation of Roubaud, his teaching began in a private school for drawing and painting by Heinrich Knirr in Munich. There Meller met the students Paul Klee, who introduced him to the group Der Blaue Reiter.

After completing his degree at the Kiev University of Law, Meller attended the Munich Academy of Fine Arts 1908-1912.

During this time, Meller met Wassily Kandinsky, with whom he became friends. First exhibitions Meller took place after his move to Paris. There he became a member of the Société des Artistes Independants. Meller also studied with Antoine Bourdelle.

Between 1912 and 1914, Meller together with Kazimir Malevich, Sonia Delaunay, Alexander Archipenko, Alexandra Exter participated in several exhibitions, including: Salon des Independants, Spring Salon, Salon D ' Automne (together with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and André Derain ).

After his return to Kiev in 1917, he worked on easel and monumental painting, graphic and costume design. His transition to the stage design, which became his main artistic field, took place in the first years after the revolution.

Between 1918 and 1921, Meller worked with the set designer and dancer Bronislava Nijinska, sister of Vaslav Nijinsky, in her ballet studio.

1922 invited Les Kurbas Meller one of the newly founded Berezil Theatre.

In 1925 Meller together with Sonia Delaunay, Alexandra Ekster and Nathan Altman at the Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (Art Deco) in Paris. There he received the gold medal for his stage design of Berezil Theatre. In the same year Meller also participated in the International Theater Exposition in New York City.

Meller was the leader of the Ukrainian constructivist stage set. There he worked out in raised position until 1945.

From 1925 taught Meller, together with Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Bogomasow at the Kiev Art Academy. In the same year he became a member of the artist association association of revolutionary artists of Ukraine, together with David Burliuk (co-founder ), Alexander Bogomasow (co-founder ), Vasily Yermilov, Victor and Alexander Palmov Weniaminowitsch Khvostenko - Khvostov.

Meller worked as managing director of the Institute of monumental painting and sculpture of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR (1946-1948), as a senior artist of the Kiev Comedy Theater (1948-1953) and as a senior artist of the Academy Theatre Ivan Franko ( 1953-1959 ).

He was married to Nina Genke.

Swell

  • Olga Petrova: Vadym Meller 's Expressive Constructivism, p.5 -32, catalog avant-garde Adventures, National Museum of Art, ( NAMU ), Kiev, Ukraine, 2004.
  • Meller in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  • Mykola Labinskyj and Viktor Sydorenko: Artist of Ukraine: Encyclopedic Handbook, Institute of Contemporary Art, AMU, 2006, page 375
  • Vadim Melller, Zoya Kutcherenko, Mistetstvo, Kiev, 1975.
  • Russian painter
  • Ukrainian painter
  • Set designer
  • Artist of Cubism
  • Artist of constructivism
  • Born in 1884
  • Died in 1962
  • Man
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