Aleksandr Lappo-Danilevskii 1898–1920. Benita Essen 1893–1974: risunki, akvareli, pechatnaia grafika (Aleksandr Lappo-Danilevskii 1898–1920. Benita Essen 1893–1974: drawings, watecolors, prints); - , 1898-1920, , 1893-1974 : , , , , , : 100- . . -
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2020. Sewn cl. The research and visual documents published in this catalogue of a gallery exhibition demonstrate the success attained in the experimental styles of the time by an artist who was cut off at twenty-two by typhoid caught in a tram in Petrograd in 1920. Lappo-Danilevskii was the son of an eminent historian, travelled much as a child and early showed an aptitude for drawing, which his parents encouraged with tutors. He eventually trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Some of his works ended up in Russian museums after an exhibition organized by his wife Benita Essen with the help of Petrov-Vodkin in 1920 and another in 1926, but it was the discovery and repatriation of a significant part of his works by Vladimir Levshenkov that provided the impulse for this exhibition. Lappo-Davilevskii's poster and book art, drawings and watercolors, costume and set designs from the Russian Museum, the Museum of Theater and Music Art, provincial and private collections show his imaginative and playful use of the tools of the avant-garde. His wife Benita Essen's agitation posters of the 1920s and drawings of the mid twentieth century are also part of legacy of the avant-garde and are published in the second section of the catalogue. An appendix publishes recollections of Lappo-Davilevskii by Essen, Petrov-Vodkin, and other contemporaries. 149 p., 29 cm, approx. 150 color illus., Rus. Item #3999
Run: 300.
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