Varvara Stepanova, painter, was born on October 29

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Varvara Stepanova

painter, graphic designer, artist crafts
October 29, 1894 - May 20, 1958

Varvara Stepanova, F. was born October 29, 1894 in Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania). She studied at the Kazan Art School, where she met with the future life partner and ally in the art of Rodchenko, and adopted it as their own ideas.

On arrival in Moscow in 1912, worked in a factory, attending private studio Juon and Stroganov School of Industrial Art.

The youngest among the Russian avant-garde, it was nonetheless evident there. The alliance with Rodchenko defined its transition from an early symbolist poetry and graphics to the non-objective painting and poetry.

The basis of non-objective compositions Stepanova always obvious stylized figurative motifs and subject. They gravitated more to the game, geometric shapes, rather than to the philosophy of language.

The specificity of the nature of gifts predetermined convergence of the artist with the constructivists, departed from abstract art in the direction of the direct production of things.

She has been involved in a constructivist exhibition "5 × 5=25" (1921), makes furniture and costumes for the play of Vsevolod Meyerhold "Death Tarelkin" based on Sukhovo-Kobylin (1922) and for the movie "The separation" (1926), makes designs fabrics for printworks (1924-25).

A taste for applied and design activities leading to employment Stepanov typographic design and photo albums. Since the mid-1920s, she worked in the field of design and printing posters. Engaged in a photomontage, designed the covers of books and journals "Soviet Cinema", "listener", "red students", "Overseas", "Book and Revolution" and others.

In the late 1930s, Stepanova returned to painting. During the 2nd World War, was evacuated to Perm. The designer TASS Windows and exhibitions Goslitmuzeya. In the postwar years continued to work as a designer.

Stepanova works are in many leading museums of the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. One of the largest collections of works of the artist kept in the Department of Private Collections Pushkin Museum. Alexander Pushkin.

Varvara Stepanova F. died May 20, 1958 in Moscow.