Artist Annenkov Biography

With the family lived in St. Petersburg. Annenkov was expelled from the state gymnasium for participating in the issue of an illegal gymnasium magazine, and graduated from a private gymnasium S. B - studied at the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University. At school age, he studied with a home teacher, visited TsUTR for two to three months. He studied at the studio of S.

Zidenberg -, in - in the studio of Y., studying in private workshops, Annenkov focused on Russian realistic painting in the spirit of I. Repin, F. Malyavin, was fond of the work of P. Fedotov, as well as French impressionism and post -impressionism. On the advice of Tsionginsky in May, he went to Paris. He studied graphic techniques and discovered the latest trends of cubism and futurism.

He talked with O. Tsadkin, Moses Kisling, A. Arkhipenko, Amedeo Modigliani, M. Vasilyeva, M. Shagal, Khana Orlova, E. Kruglikova and other artists. Before leaving, in the spring he put his early work in the salon of independent. Adam and Eve. Canvas, oil. GTG Yu. Dreams of Provincial Borovichi. I illustrated books, including N. Jewinov, “Presenting Love” by the PG.

He also worked as a scenographer in St. Petersburg and Moscow theaters: “Crooked Mirror”, them. Komissarzhevskaya, "Bat". He was one of the initiators of expressionism on the Russian stage. A permanent visitor to the “wandering dog” and “halt of the comedians”, an active participant in the summer art life in Kuokkala. The nearest circle of his acquaintances included K.

Chukovsky, N. Jewish, I. Repin, V. Mayakovsky, V. Kamensky, B. Livshits, N. Kulbin, V. Khlebnikov, V. Meyerhold and others. This life was reflected in caricatures and sketches in the home album of the Chukovsky Chukokkala. Some canvases of this period are arranged on the principle of “kaleidoscope” - they are divided into cells with cubist sections, in each of the cells a separate plot of “Dreams of the Provincial Borovichi” is deployed.

All - GTG. The combination of elements of realism and academic drawing with techniques of avant -garde movements is characteristic of the painting “Portrait E. Private collection; “The portrait of M. is both in works where the compositional deconstruction and random pile of figures, lines, spots dominate, the details of objects are usually visible, and in portraits - recognizable facial features“ Portrait A.

Shortly before the February Revolution, he entered the "Union of Youth" and in March, as its representative, joined in RED and actively participated in the work of the "Left Bloc". In July, he was a member of the professional union of decorators. C - member of the board of the Petrograd House of Arts. From the end, X has developed in the graphics a style, close to the AD deco.

He created spatial assemblies, indescribable painting and various kinds of collage works. Bloc "Twelve". His illustrations for the works of Russian and foreign writers, as well as to children's books, for example, “Christmas tree” edited by Chukovsky and A. Benois, and “Moidodyr” Chukovsky, more than 20 reprints put Annenkov into a number of classics of this genre. In the Soviet years, he proved himself as an outstanding portraitist, creating a gallery of cultural figures A.

Akhmatova, M. Gorky, A. Blok, V. Khodasevich and others, and in the state order he performed a number of portraits of military leaders and statesmen L. Trotsky, V. Lenin, G. Zinoviev, L. Kamenev and others. In X they were repeatedly reproduced in various publications. At the beginning, X exposed the indescribable canvases, supplemented by spatial elements, assemblies and large metal structures.

In Petrograd, Annenkov acted as a reformer of the traditional theater in the production and design of the play “The First Vinokur” for the parable of L. Tolstoy the Hermitage Theater: Innovation was the introduction of circus elements and the musical hall and the active connection of the audience to action, which partially developed in the auditorium. In the Free Comedy Theater, he first designed the famous Jewinov play later on the stage of the same theater, where Annenkov was in charge of the artistic part, renewed in his design and in the new interpretation of the “crooked mirror”.

He collaborated as a scenograph with the BDT, creating samples of theatrical constructivism. From the beginning, X propagated in the Soviet periodicals the “Theater of the Pure Method” and “Dynamic Decorations”, realizing many of his principles in practice. By May 1, he designed together with M. Dobuzhinsky and V. Schuko the mass spectacle “Anthem of the Liberated Labor”, and by the third anniversary of the October Revolution, he performed the scenery and was one of the directors of the most grand mass spectacle of that period - “The capture of the Winter Palace” both in Petrograd.

He participated in several avant -garde exhibitions at the Art Bureau N. Prebychina Petrograd, as well as in the “World of Arts”, the first Russian art exhibition of Berlin and many others. In July, Annenkov received permission to go to Italy, where his work was exhibited at the Biennale Venice. Since August, he settled in Paris and came into contact with the artistic environment of Russian emigrants and French.In the Paris magazine, Satyrikon placed many drawings of different genre under pseudonyms, including the gallery of satirical portraits of Soviet politicians I.

Stalin, K. Voroshilov, N. Krupskaya and others.

He continued to intensively engage in painting and illustration. He collaborated with the emigrant theaters, made out dramatic, opera, ballet productions both in emigrant entreprises and in French theaters. With the began to work as a costume designer in French and Italian cinema, including more than sixty films with the most famous directors and cinemas of his time.

Thanks to Annenkov, the profession of “costumes artist” appeared in the nomenclature of French cinematography. B - a number of personal exhibitions in France and the USA took place. Literature: E. Georges Annenkoff. Paris, []; E. Expressionism in Russian theatrical and decoration art of the 10ths. Scenography of Yu. Collage graphics Yu. Problem of collage.

Yuri Annenkov. XX century. Research and publications. Scientific Journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.