Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Tatlin Yevgrafovich (Russian: Владимир Евграфович Татлин, scientific transliteration Vladimir Tatlin Evgrafovič; * 16.jul / December 28 1885greg in Kharkov, Ukraine today, .. † May 31, 1953 in Moscow) was a Russian painter. In addition to Kazimir Malevich he coined the epoch of the Russian avant-garde.

Biography

The engineer son Vladimir Tatlin ripped off with 14 years of home and spent two years as a cabin boy on a steamer on the go. In 1902 he joined the Moscow Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied until 1903 and in the years 1909/1910. 1905 to 1909 he studied Russian icon painting at the Art School in Penza, after 1904 worked again as a sailor on a ship in the Black Sea. In 1912 he was a member of the artist group Donkey's Tail in Moscow.

In 1914, he stayed on longer in Berlin and Paris. In the years 1918-1921 he taught at the State Artistic- Technical Workshops ( Vkhutemas / Вхутемас ) in the USSR and then went to Petrograd, where he taught at the Art Academy.

1927 to 1930 he worked again in Moscow, at the State Artistic -Technical Institute ( Vkhutein / Вхутеин ), from 1925 to 1927 in Kiev at the local Art Institute.

Cubism and Futurism probably he met in Paris, where he was strongly influenced by the work of Picasso. He became famous not least through his utopian design for the Monument to the Third International 0 10 from the year 1919.

Work

Tatlin's work is distinguished by the Cubists and Futurists own expressivity. Thus, the dynamics of revolution and Aufbruches should find in the works.

In particular, Tatlin emerged as the founder of the art machinery, which emphasized the aesthetics of the technique to be particularly distinguished from a romantic bourgeois understanding of art. "Art is dead, long live the new machine art of Tatlin " - as it was in June 1920 on a sign at the Dada exhibition First International Dada Fair. However, Tatlin wanted aesthetically sensible machines, not machines - art, like the Dadaists believed. Tatlin's work also stand for concepts such as movement, lightness, transparency, strength and construction. Especially his 400 -meter high tower project Monument to the Third International 0 10 but also the flying machine Letatlin evidence of his concern.

The so-called Tatlin's Tower should be a gigantic machine that house meeting rooms, elevators, stairs and a radio station and their column inside can be guided by the stars should. The ambitious architectural project was not built due to cost reasons, but is still regarded as architecture historic milestone.