GUSTAV GUSTAVOVICH KLUTSIS Russia 1895-1938 Dynamic construction Signed. Graphite and coloured pencils on paper, 30 x 29 cm. PROVENANCE In 1970 the artist's widow Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina gave this, and a number of other works, to Nina Ivanovna Lapidus, the art historian, senior scientist and curator of the Russian classical paintings in the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, as a gift. In 1970 in the Latvian National Museum of Art Nina Lapidus organized the first exhibition of Gustav Klucis artworks after his death and is the author of the exhibition catalogue of artworks by Gustav Klucis. The exhibition was dedicated to the 75 th anniversary of his birth. Klutsis studied at the Riga Art School under the local painters Purvit, Rozentals and Tilberg, before moving to St. Petersburg to attend the School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. After the revolution, he served as a soldier in the infamous Latvian Rifles regiment, who were chosen by Lenin to act as his personal bodyguard. In 1920 he exhibited with Naum Gabo and Pevsner at the Tverskoy Boulevard exhibition, and was sympathetic to Constructivism and Suprematism. He taught a course on colour at Vkutemas / Vkhutein (Higher Artistic Technical Studios and Institutes) from 1924-30, and in a declaration of 1924 announced the establishment of a Communist collective, The Studio of Revolution, within the the Vkhutein, to 'undermine the cult of artistic genius and direct creative activity towards revolutionary aims.' He died in a labour camp.
GUSTAV GUSTAVOVICH KLUTSIS Russia 1895-1938 Dynamic construction Signed. Graphite and coloured pencils on paper, 30 x 29 cm. PROVENANCE In 1970 the artist's widow Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina gave this, and a number of other works, to Nina Ivanovna Lapidus, the art historian, senior scientist and curator of the Russian classical paintings in the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, as a gift. In 1970 in the Latvian National Museum of Art Nina Lapidus organized the first exhibition of Gustav Klucis artworks after his death and is the author of the exhibition catalogue of artworks by Gustav Klucis. The exhibition was dedicated to the 75 th anniversary of his birth. Klutsis studied at the Riga Art School under the local painters Purvit, Rozentals and Tilberg, before moving to St. Petersburg to attend the School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. After the revolution, he served as a soldier in the infamous Latvian Rifles regiment, who were chosen by Lenin to act as his personal bodyguard. In 1920 he exhibited with Naum Gabo and Pevsner at the Tverskoy Boulevard exhibition, and was sympathetic to Constructivism and Suprematism. He taught a course on colour at Vkutemas / Vkhutein (Higher Artistic Technical Studios and Institutes) from 1924-30, and in a declaration of 1924 announced the establishment of a Communist collective, The Studio of Revolution, within the the Vkhutein, to 'undermine the cult of artistic genius and direct creative activity towards revolutionary aims.' He died in a labour camp.
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