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ID: 500019128
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019128

 

Record Type: Person
Vesnin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (Russian architect and scenographer, 1883-1959)

Note: Vesnin attended the Institute of Civil Engineering, Saint Petersburg, and graduated in 1912. Subsequently, he studied painting with impressionist artists Yan Tsionglinsky in Saint Petersburg and Konstantin Yuon in Moscow, from 1909-1911. Vesnin then worked in Vladimir Tatlin's studio known as "The Tower" (1912-1913), and later became involved in theater and costume design for various productions by A.Y. Tairov at the Kamernyy Theatre, Moscow. Vesnin was Professor at VKhUTEMAS from 1921-1924, and a teacher at the "Institute of Architecture, Moscow" from 1930-1936. He was also a founding member, with Moisei Iakovlevich Ginzburg, of the Association of Contemporary Architects (OSA) (1925), and edited, with Ginzburg, "Sovremennaia arkhitektura", the journal of the OSA (1926-1930).

Names:
Vesnin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (preferred,V,index,LC,Russian (transliterated)-P,NA)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vesnin (V,display)
Vesnin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovic (V)
Vesnin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovič (V)
Vesnin, Alexander Alexandrovits (V)
Vesnin, Aleksandr (V)
Vesnin, Alexandre (V)
Aleksandr Vesnin (U)
Vesnine, Alexandre (U)
Vesnin, Oleksandr Oleksandrovic (U)
Wessnin, Alexander A. (U)

Nationalities:
Russian (preferred)
Soviet

Roles:
artist (preferred)
architect
costume designer
editor
painter
professor
scenographer
graphic artist
designer
watercolorist
manufacturer
draftsman
theatrical painter
lecturer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Died:  Moscow (Moskva, Russia) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
member of ....  Vesnin family  
................  (Russian architects, active 20th century) [500089853]
partner of ....  Ginzburg, Moisey  1923-1930
..................  (Belarusian architect, urban planner, and teacher, 1892-1946) [500025636]
sibling of ....  Vesnin, Leonid Aleksandrovich  
..................  (Russian architect, 1880-1933) [500055859]
sibling of ....  Vesnin, Viktor Aleksandrovich  
..................  (Russian architect and teacher, 1882-1950) [500019950]
student of ....  Tatlin, Vladimir  
..................  (Ukrainian painter, designer, and sculptor, 1885-1956) [500021874]
teacher at (person to institution) ....  VKhUTEMAS (Art school)  from 1921 to 1924
............................................................  (Russian and Soviet art, design, and architecture school, established, reorganized 1927-1928) [500114223]
teacher of ....  Burov, Andrey  
..................  (Russian architect and theorist, 1900-1957) [500120680]
teacher of ....  Leonidov, Ivan  
..................  (Russian architect, 1902-1959) [500028497]
teacher of ....  Loveyko, Iosif  
..................  (Russian architect, born 1906) [500120698]
teacher of ....  Simbirtsev, Vasily  
..................  (Russian architect and urban planner, 1901-1982) [500120687]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Vesnin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (I)

Biographies:
(Russian architect and scenographer, 1883-1959) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Russian and Soviet architect, professor, painter (artist), theater designer, costume designer and editor; born Yur'evets (Russia, now Russia (Federation)), 1883; died Moscow (Soviet Union, now Russia (Federation)), 1959) ..... [CCA]
(Russian artist, 1883-1959) ..... [WCP]
(Soviet architect and scenographer, 1883-1959) ..... [BHA]
(1883-1959) ..... [AVERY]
(Russian artist, 1883-1959) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(architect, 1883-1959) ..... [AVERY]
(Russian artist, 1883-1959) ..... [MoMA]
(Russian architect, 1883-1959) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vesnin ........ [AVERY, CCA, VP]
...............................................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
...............................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Aleksandr Vesnin ........ [MoMA Preferred]
..................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
Vesnin, Aleksandr ........ [CCA]
....................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Vesnin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovič ........ [BHA Preferred, VP]
...............................................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Vesnin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovic ........ [CCA]
...............................................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Vesnin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich ........ [AVERY Preferred, CCA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.................................................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
.................................................................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
.................................................................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 21 April 2004
.................................................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 85385237
.................................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 80795
.................................................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Vesnin, Alexander Alexandrovits ........ [CCA]
...............................................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Vesnin, Alexandre ........ [CCA]
....................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Vesnine, Alexandre ........ [RKD]
......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 80795
Vesnin, Oleksandr Oleksandrovic ........ [RKD]
...............................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 80795
Wessnin, Alexander A. ........ [RKD]
...........................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 80795

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976) 192-193
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n85385237
....................  Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1973-1983) v.4, p.626
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) XXXII, 381-383
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 21 April 2004
....................  International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (1993) I, 946-948
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n85385237
....................  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 80795
....................  Who Was Who in the Soviet Union (1972)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q2834123
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CCA, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) 381-383
.......... International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (1993) 946
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