Alexander Vesnin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Vesnin

Soviet Russian architect

Date of Birth: 16-May-1883

Place of Birth: Yuryevets, Russia

Date of Death: 07-Nov-1959

Profession: architect, lecturer

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Alexander Vesnin

  • Alexander Aleksandrovic Vesnin (Russian: ????????? ????????????? ??????) (1883, Yuryevets – 1959, Moscow), together with his brothers Leonid and Viktor, was a leading light of Constructivist architecture.
  • He is best known for his meticulous perspectival drawings such as Leningrad Pravda of 1924. In addition to being an architect, he was a theatre designer and painter, frequently working with Lyubov Popova on designs for workers' festivals, and for the theatre of Tairov.
  • He was one of the exhibitors in the pioneering Constructivist exhibition 5x5=25 in 1921.
  • He was the head, along with Moisei Ginzburg, of the Constructivist OSA Group.
  • Among the completed buildings designed by the Vesnin brothers in the later 1920s were department stores, a club for former Tsarist political prisoners as well as the Likachev Works Palace of Culture in Moscow.
  • Vesnin was a vocal supporter of the works of Le Corbusier, and acclaimed his Tsentrosoyuz building as 'the best building constructed in Moscow for a century'.
  • After the return to Classicism in the Soviet Union, Vesnin had no further major projects.

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