Gustav Klutsis
Gustav Klutsis | |
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Ķoņi parish, Governorate of Livonia[1] | |
Died | 26 February 1938 (aged 43)[1] |
Alma mater | Vkhutemas |
Known for | Photomontage |
Notable work | Construction (1921) |
Spouse | Valentina Kulagina |
Gustav Gustavovich Klutsis (
Biography
Born in
In 1918-1921 he began art studies under
Klutsis taught, wrote, and produced political art for the Soviet state for the rest of his life. As the political background degraded through the 1920s and 1930s, Klutsis and Kulagina came under increasing pressure to limit their subject matter and techniques. Once joyful, revolutionary and utopian, by 1935 their art was devoted to furthering Joseph Stalin's cult of personality.
Despite his active and loyal service to the party, Klutsis was arrested in Moscow on 16 January 1938, as a part of the so-called "Latvian Operation" as he prepared to leave for the New York World's Fair. Kulagina agonized for months, then years, over his disappearance. His sentence was passed by the NKVD Commission and the USSR Prosecutor’s Office on 11 February 1938, and he was executed on 26 February 1938, at the Butovo NKVD training ground near Moscow. He was rehabilitated on 25 August 1956 for lack of corpus delicti.[7]
Work
Klutsis worked in a variety of experimental media. He liked to use propaganda as a sign or revolutionary background image. His first project of note, in 1922, was a series of semi-portable multimedia agitprop kiosks to be installed on the streets of Moscow, integrating "radio-orators", film screens, and newsprint displays, all to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Revolution. Like other Constructivists he worked in sculpture, produced exhibition installations, illustrations and ephemera.
But Klutsis and Kulagina are primarily known for their
Klutsis is one of four artists with a claim to having invented the subgenre of political photo montage in 1918 (along with the German Dadaists Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann, and the Russian El Lissitzky).[citation needed] He worked alongside Lissitzky on the Pressa International exhibition in Cologne.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d Gustav Klutsis. rkd.nl
- ^ КЛУЦИС ГУСТАВ ГУСТАВОВИЧ. Tretyakov Gallery
- ^ Gustav Klutsis. Grove Art Online at MoMA, 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ Gustav Klutsis. The Art Institute of Chicago, 2013. Retrieved 6 May 3013. Archived here.
- ^ Энциклопедия Всемирная история - КЛУЦИС ГУСТАВ ГУСТАВОВИЧ Archived 8 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine [World History Encyclopedia: KLUCIS, GUSTAV GUSTAVOVICH]
- ^ Густав Клуцис, латышский стрелок [Gustavs Klucis, the Latvian Rifleman] - Lenta.ru
- ^ База данных "ЖЕРТВЫ МАССОВОГО ТЕРРОРА, расстрелянные на Бутовском полигоне НКВД в 1937–1938 гг."
- ISBN 978-0300081701.