Vladimir Tatlin

Russian artist (1885-1953) · Russia · Artists · Died at 67

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He drew up plans for a tower that was never built - a spiraling iron monument to revolution taller than the Eiffel Tower - and that unbuilt structure became more famous than most of what actually stands.

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1953Died31 May 19531930“The engineers made hard forms. Evil. With angles. They are easily broken. The world is round and soft..”In their wordsquote, c. 1930; cited by Christina Lodder, in Russian Constructivism; Yale University Press, Connecticut, 1983, p. 214Read the whole statement

1929“The dream [of flying] is as old as Icarus.. .I too want to give back to man the feeling of flight [with his 'Letatlin'-air-bike, 1929-1932].”In their wordsquote, c. 1930; cited by Christina Lodder, in Russian Constructivism; Yale University Press, Connecticut, 1983, p. 213Read the whole statement

1921“[iron and glass, the] 'materials of the new Classicism'.”In their wordsQuote, 1921: in Nasha predstoiashchaia rabota,, V. Tatlin, T Shapiro, I. Meerzon, and P. Vinogradov, 'VIII s"ezd sovetov. EzhednevnyiRead the whole statement

1920“Let's split open our figures and place the environment inside them.”In their wordsQuote before 1920; ac cited by Christina Lodder, in Russian Constructivism, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), 17Read the whole statement

“It [ [his Tower ] was to be dynamic, both in its outward form and inward activity..”In their wordsQuote, c. 1920's; as cited by Camilla Gray, The Russian Experiment in Art: 1863-1922, London: Thames and Hudson, 1962, p. 226Read the whole statement

1915“In reinforced concrete we have not only a new material but, of far greater consequence, new constructions and a new method for designing buildings.”In their wordsQuote in: 'Zodchii 19' (1915), p. 198; as quoted by Vasilii Rakitin, in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932;Read the whole statement

1885Born16 December 1885

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Vladimir Tatlin

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The engineers made hard forms. Evil. With angles. They are easily broken. The world is round and soft..
1930, quote, c. 1930; cited by Christina Lodder, in Russian Constructivism; Yale University Press, Connecticut, 1983, p. 214, Own words
The influence of my art is expressed in the movement of the Constructivists, of which I am the founder - Tatlin.
1929, Quoted from a biographical note written by Tatlin in 1929, published in Tatlin', Weingarten; Kunstverlag Weingarten, 1987), p. 328; as, Own words
The dream [of flying] is as old as Icarus.. .I too want to give back to man the feeling of flight [with his 'Letatlin'-air-bike, 1929-1932].
1929, quote, c. 1930; cited by Christina Lodder, in Russian Constructivism; Yale University Press, Connecticut, 1983, p. 213, Own words

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About this person

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin was born in December 1885 in the final years of imperial Russia. He worked as a painter and stage designer before 1919, when he began designing The Monument to the Third International - a massive helical structure intended to dwarf Paris's iron landmark and house the Communist International's offices. The tower was never realized, but the drawings and model secured his place at the center of Soviet avant-garde art alongside Kazimir Malevich through the 1920s. Tatlin became a leading figure in constructivism, the movement that tried to rebuild art as engineering for the new world. He died in May 1953, the same spring as Stalin.

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