#constructivism

[jareckiworld]

Yakov Chernikhov (1889-1951) — Suprematist Composition [gouache and ink, on paperboard, 1922]

[nobrashfestivity]

Sergey Mikhailovich Bordachev, 1970s

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Naum Gabo

Linear Construction in Space No.2., 1957-58

[socarchlithuania]

Palanga. 2023

[design-is-fine]

Naum Gabo, Linear Construction NO. 1 , 1963/64 (Design 1942/43) Via Kunsthalle Hamburg

In the 1930s, the Russian constructivist came across models that mathematicians had built from wire, wood and fabric threads in the 19th century. They were used to visualize geometric formulas and thus a hypothetical space in the real world. Gabo created works of art in which he worked in a similar way. He wound spin two nylon threads around acrylic glass plates, an exploration of space with the means of art. The British sculptor Henry Moore commented on Gabo's artworks in 1983: "His structure always became space itself."

[sovietpostcards]

A factory-kitchen in Sverdlovsk [Yekaterinburg]. Photo by Mikhail Prishvin (1931).

[hannahgoodall]

El Lissitzky

[roaratorio]

Hans Wittwer, Restaurant at Halle/Leipzig Airport, 1931

[matyas-ss]

Monument to Rosa Luxemburg, El Lissitzky, (1919-1921). The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece.

[humanoidhistory]

"The Athlete of the Future," Kazimir Malevich, 1913.

[germanpostwarmodern]

From time to time I discover largely forgotten artists and architects whose work immediately strikes me as original and which leaves me wondering why they aren’t better known. One such artist is Franz Pauli (1927-70), a painter and stained glass artist based in Cologne. In fact Pauli studied biology and art at the Cologne Werkkunstschule, the Düsseldorf Art Academy and Cologne University to become a teacher but never worked as one. Among his teachers were Otto Pankok in Düsseldorf and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart in Cologne and especially the latter’s example of Constructivism had a lasting impact on Pauli: up until his untimely death Pauli refined his constructivist language towards a highly individual idiom characterized by distinctive sense of rhythm and order inspired by technical symbols and circuitry. This formal vocabulary he also applied in his manifold stained glass designs for churches in predominantly the Cologne, Paderborn and Essen dioceses.

The present little book, published alongside the artist‘s retrospective exhibition at Maternushaus Köln in 1988, contains a brief cross-section of Pauli‘s œuvre that includes stained glass works, graphics, paintings and gouaches. The latter are characterized by horizontal and vertical layers that sometimes even include figurative elements, a significant deviation from his other works. It seems that Pauli despite his largely constructivist art never completely abandoned figuration as it frequently appears in his stained glass works too. In spite of his early death the artist left a very interesting and diverse oeuvre that unfortunately is very much forgotten.

[jareckiworld]

Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) — Linearism II [oil on canvas, 1920]

[nobrashfestivity]

Kazimir Malevich

Adam and Eve 1908

[pixel8or]

[abstracteddistractions]

Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko, "White circle," 1918,

Oil on canvas,

89,2 х 71,5 cm

[anticbrvtalist]

Vladimir Tatlin with a model of his monument to the Third International, 1920