Russian artist (1885–1953)
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.
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…
Sourced, dated quotes from Vladimir Tatlin
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].
The engineers made hard forms. Evil. With angles. They are easily broken. The world is round and soft..
The influence of my art is expressed in the movement of the Constructivists, of which I am the founder – Tatlin.
[iron and glass, the] 'materials of the new Classicism'.
Let's split open our figures and place the environment inside them.
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