Yury Annenkov
Yury Annenkov | |
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Born | 23 July [O.S. 11 July 1889] 1889 |
Died | July 12, 1974 | (aged 84)
Other names | Boris Temiriazyev (pen name) |
Occupation(s) | Russian avant-garde painter, novelist, short story writer |
Yury Pavlovich Annenkov (
In his essay "On Synthetism" (1922), Yevgeny Zamyatin writes that "[Annenkov] has a keen awareness of the extraordinary rush and dynamism of our epoch. His sense of time is developed to the hundredth of a second. He has the knack--characteristic of Synthetism--of giving only the synthetic essence of things."
Yury Annenkov was born into a well-known family (among his ancestors was Pavel Annenkov, Alexander Pushkin's publisher); his father, Pavel Annenkov was involved with revolutionary activities that led him to exile in Siberia. The Annenkovs moved back to St. Petersburg in 1892.
In 1908, Annenkov entered the
Commissioned by the Bolshevik government, Annenkov together with
1922 saw his book "Portraits". It contained 80 pictures of the key-figures of Russian art of the time (
Annenkov left the Soviet in July 1924, first living in Germany and later settling in Paris. He continued to work as an artist and served as a costume designer for motion pictures. He was co-nominated with Rosine Delamare for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for their work in the film The Earrings of Madame de... (1953).
In 1934 he wrote a satyrical novel A Tale of Trivia (Повесть о пустяках) under a pen name B. Temiriasev. The novel takes place between the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War.
References
- ^ Names by which he is credited for his work on films include Georges Annenkov, Georges Annet, and D'Annenkoff. Sometimes he signed his work G. Annenkoff. [1] [2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved October 17, 2006.
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External links
- Yury Annenkov at IMDb