Ivan Puni

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Ivan Puni
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Born
Ivan Albertovich Puni

(1892-02-20)20 February 1892
Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died28 December 1956(1956-12-28) (aged 64)
Paris, France
Ivan Puni, 1914, Portrait of Artist's Wife (Портрет жены художника), oil on canvas, 89 x 62.5 cm, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Ivan Albertovich Puni[1] (Russian: Иван Альбертович Пуни; also known as Jean Pougny; 20 February 1892 – 28 December 1956)[2][3][4] was a Russian avant-garde artist (Suprematist, Cubo-Futurist).

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Ivan Puni was born in Kuokkala (then Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire, now Repino in Russia) to a family of Italian origins.[5] He was the grandson of an eminent Italian composer of ballet music, Cesare Pugni. His father, a cellist, insisted that he follow a military career, but Ivan instead decided to take private drawing lessons with Ilya Repin. By 1909, he had his own studio.[1]

Career[edit]

Puni continued his formal training in Paris in 1910–11 at the Académie Julien and other schools, where he painted in a derivative fauviste style. Upon his return to Russia in 1912, he married fellow artist Kseniya Boguslavskaya, and met, and exhibited with, members of the St Petersburg avant-garde, including Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin.[1] He made a second trip to Paris in 1914, returning to St. Petersburg in 1915. At this point, he began painting in a Cubist style reminiscent of Juan Gris. In 1915, Puni, (Aleksandra Ekster, Liubov Popova, Ivan Kliun, Ksenia Boguslavskaya, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Nina Genke and others) formed Supremus, a group of artists dedicated to the promulgation of Suprematism, the abstract art movement founded by Malevich, and first exhibited at the 0,10 Exhibition. Malevich and Puni co-authored the Suprematist Manifesto, published in 1916, which proclaimed a new, abstract art for a new historical era.

Puni also organized the exhibitions Tramway 5 and 0.10, both held in St Petersburg in 1915, in which Malevich, Tatlin, Popova and others participated, and to which Puni contributed constructions, readymades, and paintings.[1] In 1915-1916 Puni, together with other Suprematist artists, worked at Verbovka Village Folk Centre. In 1919, he taught at the Vitebsk Art School under Marc Chagall.[1]

Years of Exile[edit]

Puni and his wife, Kseniya Boguslavskaya, emigrated from Russia in 1919, first to Finland, then in 1920 to Berlin,[1] where the first exhibition consisting entirely of his work was held at the Galerie der Sturm. While in Berlin, Puni also designed costumes and sets for theatrical productions, and published a book criticising Suprematism.[1]

Puni and Boguslavskaya relocated to Paris in 1924,[1] where his style changed once again to a variant of Impressionism. In France, he signed his work as "Jean Pougny", in an effort to distance his new art practice from his previous one in Russia. In 1946, Puni/Pougny became a French citizen. He died in Paris in 1956.

Literature[edit]

  • Berlinische Galerie, Museumspädagogischer Dienst Berlin (Hrsg.): Iwan Puni. Synthetischer Musiker. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87584-438-6
  • Herman Berninger: Pougny. Jean Pougny (Iwan Puni) 1892–1956. Catalogue de l’Œuvre. E. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-8030-3000-5
  • Magdalena Nieslony: Bedingtheit der Malerei. Ivan Puni und die moderne Bildkritik. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7861-2764-2
  • Herman Berninger, 0,10 Iwan Puni. Werke Aus Der Sammlung Herman Berninger, Zuerich, Und Fotografien Der Russischen Revolution Aus Der Sammlung Ruth Und Peter Herzog, Basel, 2003, ISBN 3-7165-1308-3
  • W.E. Gröger, Galerie der Sturm, Iwan Puni, Petersburg, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Berlin, Februar 1921
  • André Salmon, Galerie Barbazanges, Œuvres de J. Pougni et Aquarelles de Xana Bougouslavska, Paris, 18.–30. April 1925
  • Galerie Jaques Bernheim, 30 Œuvres, Paris, 16.–30. April 1928
  • Galerie Jeanne Castel, Iwan Puni, Vorwort von Paul Guillaume, Paris, Juni 1933
  • Galerie Louis Carré, Iwan Puni, Paris, 5. Oktober – 20. Oktober 1943
  • Galerie de France, Iwan Puni, Vorwort zum Katalog von Charles Estienne, Paris, 3.–31. Mai 1947
  • Galerie Knoedler, Iwan Puni, New York, 26. März – 16. April, 1949
  • Adams Gallery, Jean Pougny, Vorwort zum Katalog von Alexander Watts, London, 13. April – 12. Mai 1950
  • Musée National d’Art Moderne, Rétrospective Pougny, Paris, 24. Januar – 23. Februar 1958
  • Musée Toulouse - Lautrec, Rétrospective Pougny, Vorwort zum Katalog von Édouard Julien und R.V. Gindertael, Albi, 29. März – 30. April 1958

Exhibitions[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Sarabianov, Andrei D. "Ivan Albertovich Puni". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ "ru: Русская живопись // Пуни Иван Альбертович (1892—1956)". Archived from the original on 2019-09-20. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
  3. ^ ru: Пуни Иван Альбертович (1892—1956)
  4. ^ ru: ПУНИ Иван (Жан) Альбертович / Pougny Jean
  5. ^ "Kuokkala". Archived from the original on October 26, 2009. Retrieved 2006-12-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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