Yury Annenkov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Yury Annenkov

Russian artist

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1889

Place of Birth: Petropavl, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan

Date of Death: 12-Jul-1974

Profession: painter, costume designer

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Yury Annenkov

  • Yury Pavlovich Annenkov (Russian: ???? ???????? ???????? also known as Georges Annenkov); 23 July [O.S.
  • 11 July 1889] 1889 in Petropavlovsk, Akmolinsk Oblast, Russian Empire – 12 July 1974 in Paris, France), was a Russian artist mostly known for his book illustrations and portraits.
  • He also worked for theatre and cinema (design).
  • A member of Mir Iskusstva. 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 University of St.
  • Petersburg and attended Savely Seidenberg's studio classes, together with Marc Chagall.
  • Next year, 1909, he attended Jan Ciaglinski's studio.
  • In 1911-1912, Annenkov moved to Paris to work in the studios of Maurice Denis and Félix Vallotton.
  • In 1913, Annenkov worked in Switzerland.
  • Upon his return to St.
  • Petersburg in 1914, Annenkov mostly contributed to magazines (Satirikon, Teatr i Iskusstvo, Otechestvo) and worked for theatres. Maxim Gorky's fairy-tale book, Samovar, published in 1917 was his first work as a book designer.
  • His recognition as a book illustrator came in the wake of his most known work — designing Alexander Blok's poem, The Twelve, published in 1918 and gone through three printings within a year.
  • In the next few years Annenkov designed numerous books for Petrograd authors (Mikhail Kuzmin and Aleksey Remizov, to name a few).
  • In 1919 Annenkov designed and staged "First Distiller, or How an Imp Earned a Hunk of Bread", a comedy by Count Lev Tolstoi. Commissioned by the Bolshevik government, Annenkov together with Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, S.
  • Maslovski and A.
  • Kugel, designed and staged the open-air mystery "Liberated Labour Anthem" on 1 May 1920 in Petrograd.
  • Later that year, Annenkov staged and designed another mass show, The Storming of the Winter Palace, part of the October Revolution anniversary celebrations in Palace Square, Petrograd.
  • In 1919-1920 Annenkov made a series of abstract sculptural assemblages and collages, influenced by the Dada movement. 1922 saw his book "Portraits".
  • It contained 80 pictures of the key-figures of Russian art of the time (Gorki, Zamyatin, Remizov, Sologub, Blok, Akhmatova a.o.) made in 1906-1921.
  • The book also included essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Mikhail Kuzmin.
  • He joined the Mir Iskusstva. Annenkov left Russia 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).

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