Alexander Vesnin
Soviet architect (1883–1959)
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::summary Soviet architect (1883–1959) ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Alexander Vesnin |
| image | A.Rodchenko 1924 portrait of A.Vesnin.jpg |
| image_size | 140 |
| caption | Photo by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924 (fragment) |
| birth_date | 28 May 1883 |
| birth_place | Yuryevets, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| alma_mater | Institute of Civil Engineers, |
| Saint Petersburg | |
| practice | Vesnin brothers |
| significant_buildings | Dnieper Hydroelectric Station |
| ZiL Palace of Culture | |
| :: |
| name = Alexander Vesnin | image = A.Rodchenko 1924 portrait of A.Vesnin.jpg | image_size = 140 | caption = Photo by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924 (fragment) | birth_date = 28 May 1883 | birth_place = Yuryevets, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | alma_mater = Institute of Civil Engineers, Saint Petersburg | practice = Vesnin brothers | significant_buildings = Dnieper Hydroelectric Station ZiL Palace of Culture | significant_projects = | significant_design = | awards =
Alexander Aleksandrovich Vesnin (; 28 May 1883 – 7 September 1959), 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 5×5=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.
File:Alexander Vesnin Abstract Composition 1915c..jpg|Abstract Composition. 1915c. M.T. Abraham Foundation
Selected work
- 1934 People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project
- 1930 Oilworkers' Club, Baku
- 1930-36 Likachev Palace of Culture, Moscow
- 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow
- 1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow
- 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project
- 1922-23 Palace of Labor project
References
- S.N Khan-Magomedov, Alexander Vesnin and Russian Constructivism (Thames and Hudson, 1988)
- Khan-Magomedov S. O. Architecture of the Soviet avant-garde: In 2 books: B. 1: Formation problems. Masters and currents. - M .: Stroyizdat. 1996 .-- 709 pp., Ill. .
- A.G. Chinyakov. The Vesnin brothers. Moscow, 1970.
References
- Khan-Magomedov, S.O.. (1996). "Architecture of the Soviet avant-garde: In 2 books: B. 1: Formation problems. Masters and currents". Stroyizdat.
- Chinyakov, A.G.. (1970). "The Vesnin brothers". Stroyizdat.
- Khan-Magomedov, S.O.. (1994). "ASNOVA, OSA and INKHUK group. Creative trends, concepts and organizations of the Soviet avant-garde. Series of issues of VNIITAG No. 4". VNIITAG.
- Chinyakov, A.G.. (1969). "Le Corbusier and Vesnin Brothers". Soviet Architecture.
- "Russian Constructivism in the Provinces > Photos".
- "Russian Utopia: a depository". Utopia.ru.
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