Sascha Bru - The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935: A Portable Guide

The European Avant-Gardes,
19051935

The European Avant-Gardes,
19051935

A Portable Guide

Sascha Bru

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Sascha Bru, 2018

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Contents

Illustrations

Figures

El Lissitzky, Suprematisch worden van twee kwadraten in 6 konstrukties, trans. from Russian original, Pro dva kvadrata.Suprematicheskii skazv 6-ti postroikakh (Berlin: Skify [Scythians], 1922), by Theo van Doesburg and published as a double issue of De Stijl, nos 1011 (Leiden, 1922), n.p. 26 21 cm (10 1/4 8 1/4 in). Private collection.

Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Programm der Knstlergruppe Brcke (1906). Flysheet with woodcut, 15.1 7.5 cm (5 15/16 2 15/16 in). Private collection.

Beno Gordeziani, (1924). Published in H2SO4, no. 1, 1924, p. 46. 29 20 cm (11 7/16 7 7/8 in). Private collection.

Le Cur barbe, cover of no. 1, 1922. 22.5 14 cm (8 7/8 5 1/2 in). Private collection.

Mcano, cover of nos 45, 1923, designed by Theo van Doesburg and showing untitled drawing by Raoul Hausmann. Magazine printed on a single sheet of 33 52 cm (13 20 1/2 in), when folded to cover page size 16 13 cm (6 5/16 5 1/8 in). Private collection.

Der Sturm, cover of no. 20, 1910, showing a line block reproduction of the drawing Mrder. Hoffnung der Frauen by Oskar Kokoschka. Page 38 28 cm (14 15/16 11 in). Private collection.

MA, cover of no. 2, 1918, showing sheet music by Bla Bartk. Page approx. 37 27 cm (14 9/16 10 5/8 in). Kassk Museum (Petfi Literary Museum), Budapest.

MA, cover of no. 5, 1924, designed by Lajos Kassk. Page approx. 25 25 cm (9 7/8 9 7/8 in). Kassk Museum (Petfi Literary Museum), Budapest.

Kasimir Malevich, stage set design (for act 2, scene 5) for Pobeda nad Solntsem (1913). Pencil on paper, 21 27 cm (8 1/4 10 5/8 in). Acc. no.: KP-5199/166. State Museum of Theatre and Music, St Petersburg.

Kasimir Malevich, costume design for the New Man character in Pobeda nad Solntsem (1913). Pencil, watercolour and ink on paper, 26 21 cm (10 1/4 8 1/4 in). Acc. no.: KP-5199/172. State Museum of Theatre and Music, St Petersburg.

Robert Sennecke, photograph of the Erste Internationale Dada-Messe in the Galerie Dr. Otto Burchard, Berlin (1920).

Anon., photograph of Henryk Berlewi during his solo exhibition in the Austro-Daimler showroom, Warsaw, 1924. Acc. no.: 17.588 PL. Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Sztuki, Polska Akademie Nauk).

Stanisaw Kubicki, Ruderer II (191718), as reproduced on the cover of Die Aktion no. 256, 1918. Private collection. Original woodcut held in the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Plate from Bruno Taut, Alpine Architektur (Hagen: Folkwang-Verlag, 1919), 39.5 33.5 cm (15 9/16 13 3/16 in). Private collection.

Lszl Moholy-Nagy, photograph of Lichtrequisit einer elektrischen Bhne (ca. 1930), from the film Ein Lichtspiel: schwarz weiss grau (A Lightplay: Black White Gray). Gelatin silver print, 37.4 27.4 cm (14 3/4 10 3/4 in). The work photographed is housed in the Harvard Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum. This photograph, acc. no.: 296.1937, was donated by the artist to the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Fernand Lger and Dudley Murphy, Ballet mcanique (1924). Still from the silent B&W film, 35 mm, 19 minutes (16 minutes in the premiered version edited by Frederick Kiessler).

Fernand Lger and Dudley Murphy, Ballet mcanique (1924). Still from the silent B&W film, 35 mm, 19 minutes (16 minutes in the premiered version edited by Frederick Kiessler).

Vitzslav Nezval, Abeceda (Prague: J. Otto, 1926), page design by Karel Teige. Here presented in the English translation by J. Toman and M. S. Witkovsky (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 2001). Private collection.

Plate from Bruno Taut, Der Weltbaumeister: Architektur-Schauspiel fr Symphonische Musik (Hagen: Folkwang Verlag, 1920), n.p. 22 19 cm (8 5/8 7 1/2 in). Private collection.

F. T. Marinetti, Aprs le Marne, Joffre visita le front en auto, foldout, 26 23.5 cm (10 1/4 9 1/4 in), in the anthology Les Mots en libert futuristes (Milano: Edizioni futuriste di Poesia, 1919). Private collection.

Hans Richter, Film ist Rhythmus (1921), later retitled Rhythmus 21. Still from this silent B&W film, 35 mm, approx. three minutes.

Man Ray, Retour la raison (1923). Still from this silent B&W film, 35 mm, two minutes.

Charlotte Rudolph, photograph of Mary Wigman (1926). Gelatin silver print, 15 19.5 cm (5 7/8 7 11/16 in). Deutsches Tanzarchiv, Kln.

Anon., photograph of the Prounenraum of El Lissitzky at the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung (1923). Reproduced from G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung (G: Material for Elementary Construction), no. 1, 1923. Private collection.

Alexander Archipenko, Tte. Construction aux plans entrecoups (1913). Bronze, 38 28 20 cm (14 15/16 11 7 7/8 in). Private collection.

Man Ray, Duchamp Behind the Rotary Glass Plates (Precise Optics) (1920). Silver gelatin print, 12 9 cm (4 3/4 3 9/16 in). Private collection.

Anon., photograph of Futurists Luigi Russolo and Ugo Piatti in their Milan studio with intonarumori (ca. 191415). 12.7 17.7 cm (5 7 in). Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Fondo Luigi Russolo.

Page from Portugal Futurista, no. 1, 1917. Private collection.

Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck and Marcel Janco, LAmiral cherche une maison louer, reproduced from Cabaret Voltaire, no.1, 1916. Private collection.

Alfred Stieglitz, assisted by Marcel Duchamp, photograph of Marcel Duchamps lost Fountain (1917). Gelatin silver print, 23 18 cm (9 1/4 7 in). Private collection.

Varvara Fedorovna Stepanova, Design for sportswear (1923). Reproduced from LEF, no. 2, 1923. Private collection.

Natalia Goncharova, Velosipedist (1913). Oil on canvas, 78 105 cm (30 6/8 41 3/8 in). State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

Mario Bellusi, Traffico moderno nellantica Roma (1930). Gelatin silver print, 15 20 cm (5 7/8 7 7/8 in). Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Fondo Mino Somenzi.

Eugne Atget, Cour, 7 rue de Valence (1922), silver gelatin print, 17.2 22.7 cm (6 3/4 8 15/16 in). Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005. Acc. no.: 2005.100.550. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.