David Burliuk short biography. An attempt at not very serious research
Burliuk David Davidovich - poet, artist, one of the founders of Russian futurism, theorist and promoter of new art.
David Burliuk was born in 1882 in the Semirotovshchina farmstead, Kharkov province, in the family of a landowner estate manager. His brothers Vladimir and Nikolai and sister Lyudmila later also took part in the futurist movement. In 1894-98, David studied at Sumy, Tambov and Tver gymnasiums. While studying at the Tambov gymnasium, he met the artist Konstantinov and soon decided to become a professional artist. Studies in Kazan (1898-1999) and Odessa (1999-1900, 1910-1911) art schools. In 1902, after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Academy of Arts, he left for Munich. Studied at the Royal Academy of Munich (1902-1903), at Cormon's studio in Paris (1904), at the Moscow School of Painting and Painting (1911-1914). Since 1908, actively involved in modern artistic life and soon becomes one of the leaders of the literary and artistic avant-garde. Participates in most of the first exhibitions of "new art" ("Link", "Wreath-Stefanos" and " Jack of Diamonds"). In 1908 he published his first declaration, “The Voice of the Impressionist in Defense of Painting.” The estate of Count Mordvinov Chernyanka, where his father worked in the 1900-1910s, became a kind of “headquarters” of young innovators. different times Larionov, Khlebnikov, Lifshits, Lentulov and other representatives visited there avant-garde art. It was there that the idea of creating an independent literary and artistic group, focused on creating a new national art, first arose. By 1910, a circle of like-minded people with an original philosophical and aesthetic program was emerging - D. Burliuk, V. Kamensky, M. Matyushin, E. Guro - to whom Khlebnikov gave the name “Budetlyan”. Having met V. Mayakovsky and B. Lifshits in 1911, David Burliuk created a new literary association - “Gilea”. In 1912, together with Mayakovsky, Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov, he published a programmatic manifesto of futurism, “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.” Possessing rare organizational skills, David Burliuk quickly accumulates the main forces of futurism. With his direct participation, poetry collections are published, brochures are published, exhibitions are organized and debates are held. For contemporaries, the name of David Burliuk begins to be associated with the most radical speeches of the futurists. In 1913-1914, he organized the famous futurist tour of Russian cities, giving lectures, reading poems and proclamations. As an author and illustrator, he takes part in the publication of futurist books ("Roaring Parnassus", "Trebnik of Three", "Dead Moon", "Collection of the Only Futurists in the World"), and in 1914 - editor of the "First Futurist Magazine". In 1918 he became one of the publishers of the Futurist Newspaper. Member of many literary and artistic associations ("Blue Rider", "Youth Union", "Gilea", "Jack of Diamonds", "Society of Fine Arts"). During civil war ends up in Bashkiria, and then in Siberia and the Far East, where he continues to promote futurism. In 1920 he emigrated to Japan. Two years later he moved to the United States, where, together with his wife, he organized a publishing house, under whose brand he published prose, poetry, journalism and memoirs. In the 1920s he worked for the newspaper "Russian Voice" and was a member of literary group"Hammer and Sickle" In 1930 he published the theoretical work "Entelechism", and in the same year he began publishing the magazine "Color and Rhyme". Every year he participates in exhibitions and is engaged in photography. In the 1950s, he opened his own gallery in Hampton Bays, Long Island. Died in 1967 in Long Island (USA).
Exhibitions:
Exhibition in favor of the hungry. Kharkov, 1905
Exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists. St. Petersburg, 1906-1907
17th Exhibition TYURH. Odessa, 1906
18th Exhibition of TYURH, Odessa, 1907
35th Exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Moscow, 1907
Spring exhibition at the Academy of Arts. St. Petersburg, 1907
Stefanos. Moscow, 1907/1908
15th MTX Exhibition. Moscow, 1908
Link. Kyiv, 1908
36th Exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Moscow, 1908
Exhibition of modern trends in art. St. Petersburg, 1908
Salon of the Golden Fleece. St. Petersburg, 1909
Salon of S. Makovsky. St. Petersburg, 1909
Impressionists. St. Petersburg, 1909
Impressionists. Vilna (Vilnius), 1909
Wreath-Stephanos. St. Petersburg, 1909
Salons of V. Izdebsky. Odessa, Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Riga 1909-1910
Triangle - Wreath-Stephanos. St. Petersburg, 1910
Youth Union. St. Petersburg, 1910-1913; Riga 1910.
Jack of diamonds. Moscow, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1916, 1918
Exhibition of new art society. Munich, 1910
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). Munich, 1911, 1912
Salon of P. Kasirer. Berlin, 1911
Exhibition Triangle. St. Petersburg, 1912
Exhibition of paintings by the Artistic Association. St. Petersburg, 1912
15th MTX Exhibition. Moscow, 1912
Contemporary painting. Ekaterinburg, 1912
Exhibition of the Society of Artists Moscow Salon. Moscow, 1913
3rd exhibition Free creativity. Moscow, 1913
35th anniversary exhibition of students of the Moscow School of Art and Culture. Moscow, 1913
The first German autumn salon. Gallery Sturm (Der Sturm). Berlin, 1913
Salon of Independents. Paris, 1914
Exhibition Artists to fellow warriors. Moscow, 1914
Exhibition of paintings of leftist movements. Petrograd, 1915
Exhibition of paintings. Moscow, 1915
World of art. Petrograd, 1915
Exhibition of contemporary Russian painting. Petrograd, 1916
Exhibition of paintings by David Burliuk. Ufa, 1916
Exhibition of paintings by Ufimsky art club. Ufa, 1916
Personal exhibition of David Burliuk. Samara, 1917
1st exhibition of paintings by the Moscow Art Circle. Moscow, 1918
24th exhibition of paintings by MTH. Moscow, 1918
7th exhibition of paintings Free creativity. Moscow, 1918
Exhibition of Petrograd and Moscow artists. Chita, 1919
The first exhibition of Russian artists in Japan. Tokyo, 1920
Personal exhibition. Osaka, 1921; Nagoya 1921; Tokyo, 1921
The first exhibition of Russian art. Berlin, 1922
Solo exhibition at the New York Arts Center. New York, 1923
Exhibition of Russian art at the Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1923
International exhibition. Philadelphia, 1926
Exhibition of new art at the Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1927/1928
Exhibition of the group "13" and the John Reed Club. Moscow, 1931
(the list of exhibitions after 1920 is not given in full)
Personal editions David Burliuk:
Leaflet. Regarding "Artistic Letters" by A. Benois. 1910
Noisy "Benois" and the new Russian national art. St. Petersburg, 1913
Explanations for the paintings of David Burliuk. Catalog personal exhibition paintings fa, 1916
D.D. Burliuk. Catalog of the exhibition of paintings. Samara, 1917
Balding tail. Kurgan, 1919
Burliuk shakes hands with the Wulforth Building (on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of artistic and literary activity). New York, 1924
Marusya-san. New York, 1925
Climbing Mount Fuji. New York, 1926
A sea story. New York, 1927
Along the Pacific Ocean. From life modern Japan. New York, 1927
Oshima. Japanese Decameron. New York, 1927
Tenth October. New York, 1928
Tolstoy. Bitter. New York, 1929
Entelechism. 20 years of futurism. New York, 1930
1/2 century. New York, 1932
Books and poetry collections with the participation of David Burliuk:
Impressionist studio. St. Petersburg, 1910
Zadok of Judges. St. Petersburg, 1910
A slap in the face to public taste. Moscow, 1912
Die Wilden Russlands // Der Blaue Reiter. Munich, 1912
Zadok of Judges 2. St. Petersburg, 1913
Youth Union. No. 3. St. Petersburg, 1913
Breviary of three. Moscow, 1913
Dead moon. Moscow, 1913
Gag. Kherson, 1913
V. Khlebnikov. Roar! Gloves 1908-1914. St. Petersburg, 1913 (illustrations by D. Burliuk)
A slap in the face to public taste. Leaflet. 1913.
Mares' milk. Kherson, 1914
Roaring Parnassus. St. Petersburg, 1914
The first magazine of Russian futurists, No. 1-2. Moscow, 1914
Dead moon. (second edition). Moscow, 1914
V. Khlebnikov. Collection of poems 1907-1914. St. Petersburg, 1914 (illustrations by D. Burliuk)
V. Kamensky. Tango with cows. Reinforced concrete poems. Moscow, 1914 (illustrations by D. Burliuk)
V. Mayakovsky. Tragedy Vladimir Mayakovsky. Moscow, 1914 (illustrations by D. Burliuk)
Certificates and declarations of Russian futurists. St. Petersburg, 1914
Spring counterparty of muses. Moscow, 1915
I took it. Futurist drum. Petrograd, 1915
Sagittarius 1. Petrograd, 1915
Four birds. Moscow, 1916
Moscow masters. Moscow, 1916
Sagittarius 2. Petrograd. 1916
Futurist newspaper. Moscow, 1918
Captured by skyscrapers. New York, 1924
Subway pipe. New York, 1924
Red arrow. New York, 1932
Articles by D. Burliuk in periodicals: Handicraft Art // Moscow newspaper, February 25, 1913
About Max Linder // Kine-magazine, 1915, No. 1-2
Interesting meetings // Lel, 1919, No. 5-6
Memoirs of Burliuk // Creativity (Vladivostok), No. 1, 1920
From the laboratory to the street (the evolution of futurism) // Creativity (Vladivostok), No. 2, 1920
Vladimir Mayakovsky. // Creativity (Vladivostok), No. 11, 1920
Literature and art in Siberia and the Far East 1919-1922 // New Russian book, No. 2. New York, 1924
Rules of the game // "Kitovras", No. 2, New York, 1924
Revelations in simplicity, colors and lines // Kitovras, No. 3, New York, 1924
Color and Rhyme. N-Y., No. 1 - 60, 1930-1966
Burliuk David Davidovich - poet, artist, one of the founders of Russian futurism, theorist and promoter of new art.
David Burliuk was born in 1882 in the Semirotovshchina farmstead, Kharkov province, in the family of a landowner estate manager. His brothers Vladimir and Nikolai and sister Lyudmila later also took part in the futurist movement. In 1894-98, David studied at Sumy, Tambov and Tver gymnasiums. While studying at the Tambov gymnasium, he met the artist Konstantinov and soon decided to become a professional artist . He studied at the Kazan (1898-1999) and Odessa (1999-1900, 1910-1911) art schools. In 1902, after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Academy of Arts, he left for Munich. Studied at the Royal Academy of Munich (1902-1903), at Cormon's studio in Paris (1904), at the Moscow School of Painting and Painting (1911-1914). Since 1908, he has been actively involved in modern artistic life and soon becomes one of the leaders of the literary and artistic avant-garde. Participates in most of the first exhibitions of "new art" ("Link", "Wreath-Stephanos" and "Jack of Diamonds"). In 1908 he published his first declaration, “The Voice of the Impressionist in Defense of Painting.” The estate of Count Mordvinov Chernyanka, where his father worked in the 1900-1910s, became a kind of “headquarters” for young innovators. At different times, Larionov, Khlebnikov, Lifshits, Lentulov and other representatives of avant-garde art visited there. It was there that the idea of creating an independent literary and artistic group, focused on creating a new national art, first arose. By 1910, a circle of like-minded people with an original philosophical and aesthetic program was emerging - D. Burliuk, V. Kamensky, M. Matyushin, E. Guro - to whom Khlebnikov gave the name “Budetlyan”. Having met V. Mayakovsky and B. Lifshits in 1911, David Burliuk created a new literary association - “Gilea”. In 1912, together with Mayakovsky, Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov, he published a programmatic manifesto of futurism, “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.” Possessing rare organizational skills, David Burliuk quickly accumulates the main forces of futurism. With his direct participation, poetry collections are published, brochures are published, exhibitions are organized and debates are held. For contemporaries, the name of David Burliuk begins to be associated with the most radical speeches of the futurists. In 1913-1914, he organized the famous futurist tour of Russian cities, giving lectures, reading poems and proclamations. As an author and illustrator, he takes part in the publication of futurist books ("Roaring Parnassus", "Trebnik of Three", "Dead Moon", "Collection of the Only Futurists in the World"), and in 1914 - editor of the "First Futurist Magazine". In 1918 he became one of the publishers of the Futurist Newspaper. Member of many literary and artistic associations ("Blue Rider", "Youth Union", "Gilea", "Jack of Diamonds", "Society of Fine Arts"). During the civil war he ends up in Bashkiria, and then in Siberia and the Far East, where he continues to promote futurism. In 1920 he emigrated to Japan. Two years later he moved to the United States, where, together with his wife, he organized a publishing house, under whose brand he published prose, poetry, journalism and memoirs. In the 1920s he worked for the newspaper "Russian Voice" and was a member of the literary group "Hammer and Sickle". In 1930 he published the theoretical work "Entelechism", and in the same year he began publishing the magazine "Color and Rhyme". Every year he participates in exhibitions and is engaged in photography. In the 1950s, he opened his own gallery in Hampton Bays, Long Island. Died in 1967 in Long Island (USA).
Exhibitions:
Exhibition in favor of the hungry. Kharkov, 1905
Exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists. St. Petersburg, 1906-1907
17th Exhibition TYURH. Odessa, 1906
18th Exhibition of TYURH, Odessa, 1907
35th Exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Moscow, 1907
Spring exhibition at the Academy of Arts. St. Petersburg, 1907
Stefanos. Moscow, 1907/1908
15th MTX Exhibition. Moscow, 1908
Link. Kyiv, 1908
36th Exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Moscow, 1908
Exhibition modern trends in art. St. Petersburg, 1908
Salon of the Golden Fleece. St. Petersburg, 1909
Salon of S. Makovsky. St. Petersburg, 1909
Impressionists. St. Petersburg, 1909
Impressionists. Vilna (Vilnius), 1909
Wreath-Stephanos. St. Petersburg, 1909
Salons of V. Izdebsky. Odessa, Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Riga 1909-1910
Triangle - Wreath-Stephanos. St. Petersburg, 1910
Youth Union. St. Petersburg, 1910-1913; Riga 1910.
Jack of diamonds. Moscow, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1916, 1918
Exhibition of the new art society. Munich, 1910
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). Munich, 1911, 1912
Salon of P. Kasirer. Berlin, 1911
Exhibition Triangle. St. Petersburg, 1912
Exhibition of paintings by the Artistic Association. St. Petersburg, 1912
15th MTX Exhibition. Moscow, 1912
Contemporary painting. Ekaterinburg, 1912
Exhibition of the Society of Artists Moscow Salon. Moscow, 1913
3rd exhibition Free creativity. Moscow, 1913
35th anniversary exhibition of students of the Moscow School of Art and Culture. Moscow, 1913
The first German autumn salon. Gallery Sturm (Der Sturm). Berlin, 1913
Salon of Independents. Paris, 1914
Exhibition Artists to fellow warriors. Moscow, 1914
Exhibition of paintings of leftist movements. Petrograd, 1915
Exhibition of paintings. Moscow, 1915
World of art. Petrograd, 1915
Exhibition of contemporary Russian painting. Petrograd, 1916
Exhibition of paintings by David Burliuk. Ufa, 1916
Exhibition of paintings from the Ufa art circle. Ufa, 1916
Personal exhibition of David Burliuk. Samara, 1917
1st exhibition of paintings by the Moscow Art Circle. Moscow, 1918
24th exhibition of paintings by MTH. Moscow, 1918
7th exhibition of paintings Free creativity. Moscow, 1918
Exhibition of Petrograd and Moscow artists. Chita, 1919
The first exhibition of Russian artists in Japan. Tokyo, 1920
Personal exhibition. Osaka, 1921; Nagoya 1921; Tokyo, 1921
The first exhibition of Russian art. Berlin, 1922
Solo exhibition at the New York Arts Center. New York, 1923
Exhibition of Russian art at the Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1923
International exhibition. Philadelphia, 1926
Exhibition of new art at the Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1927/1928
Exhibition of the group "13" and the John Reed Club. Moscow, 1931
(the list of exhibitions after 1920 is not given in full)
Personal publications of David Burliuk:
Leaflet. Regarding "Artistic Letters" by A. Benois. 1910
Noisy "Benois" and new Russian national art. St. Petersburg, 1913
Explanations for the paintings of David Burliuk. Catalog of personal exhibition of paintings. fa, 1916
D.D. Burliuk. Catalog of the exhibition of paintings. Samara, 1917
Balding tail. Kurgan, 1919
Burliuk shakes hands with the Wulforth Building (on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of artistic and literary activity). New York, 1924
Marusya-san. New York, 1925
Climbing Mount Fuji. New York, 1926
A sea story. New York, 1927
Along the Pacific Ocean. From the life of modern Japan. New York, 1927
Oshima. Japanese Decameron. New York, 1927
Tenth October. New York, 1928
Tolstoy. Bitter. New York, 1929
Entelechism. 20 years of futurism. New York, 1930
1/2 century. New York, 1932
Books and poetry collections with the participation of David Burliuk:
Impressionist studio. St. Petersburg, 1910
Zadok of Judges. St. Petersburg, 1910
A slap in the face to public taste. Moscow, 1912
Die Wilden Russlands // Der Blaue Reiter. Munich, 1912
Zadok of Judges 2. St. Petersburg, 1913
Youth Union. No. 3. St. Petersburg, 1913
Breviary of three. Moscow, 1913
Dead moon. Moscow, 1913
Gag. Kherson, 1913
V. Khlebnikov. Roar! Gloves 1908-1914. St. Petersburg, 1913 (illustrations by D. Burliuk)
A slap in the face to public taste. Leaflet. 1913.
Mares' milk. Kherson, 1914
Roaring Parnassus. St. Petersburg, 1914
The first magazine of Russian futurists, No. 1-2. Moscow, 1914
Dead moon. (second edition). Moscow, 1914
V. Khlebnikov. Collection of poems 1907-1914. St. Petersburg, 1914 (illustrations by D. Burliuk)
V. Kamensky. Tango with cows. Reinforced concrete poems. Moscow, 1914 (illustrations by D. Burliuk)
V. Mayakovsky. Tragedy Vladimir Mayakovsky. Moscow, 1914 (illustrations by D. Burliuk)
Certificates and declarations of Russian futurists. St. Petersburg, 1914
Spring counterparty of muses. Moscow, 1915
I took it. Futurist drum. Petrograd, 1915
Sagittarius 1. Petrograd, 1915
Four birds. Moscow, 1916
Moscow masters. Moscow, 1916
Sagittarius 2. Petrograd. 1916
Futurist newspaper. Moscow, 1918
Captured by skyscrapers. New York, 1924
Subway pipe. New York, 1924
Red arrow. New York, 1932
Articles by D. Burliuk in periodicals: Handicraft Art // Moscow newspaper, February 25, 1913
About Max Linder // Kine-magazine, 1915, No. 1-2
Interesting meetings // Lel, 1919, No. 5-6
Memoirs of Burliuk // Creativity (Vladivostok), No. 1, 1920
From the laboratory to the street (the evolution of futurism) // Creativity (Vladivostok), No. 2, 1920
Vladimir Mayakovsky. // Creativity (Vladivostok), No. 11, 1920
Literature and art in Siberia and the Far East 1919-1922 // New Russian book, No. 2. New York, 1924
Rules of the game // "Kitovras", No. 2, New York, 1924
Revelations in simplicity, colors and lines // Kitovras, No. 3, New York, 1924
Color and Rhyme. N-Y., No. 1 - 60, 1930-1966
Born David Davidovich Burliuk (July 9 (21), 1882, Semirotovka village, Lebedinsky district, Kharkov province (now Sumy region of Ukraine) - January 15, 1967, Hampton Bays, Long Island, New York, USA) - Russian poet and artist Ukrainian origin, one of the founders of Russian futurism. Brother of Vladimir and Nikolai Burlyukov.
Born on July 9 (21), 1882 in the family of a self-taught agronomist, David Davidovich Burliuk. He had two brothers and three sisters - Vladimir, Nikolai, Lyudmila, Marianna and Nadezhda. Vladimir and Lyudmila were artists, Nikolai was a poet. They were also part of the Futurist movement.
He studied at the Alexander Gymnasium in Sumy. As a child brother accidentally lost David's eye while playing with a toy gun. Subsequently, he walked around with a glass eye; it became part of his style.
In 1898-1910 he studied at the Kazan and Odessa art schools. He made his debut in print in 1899. He studied painting in Germany, in Munich, at the Royal Academy with Professor Willy Dietz and the Slovenian Anton Ashbe, and in France, in Paris, at the School fine arts Cormona.
Returning to Russia, in 1907-1908 Burliuk became friends with left-wing artists and participated in art exhibitions. In 1911-1914 he studied together with V.V. Mayakovsky at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Participant in the futuristic collections “Tank of Judges”, “Slap in the Face of Public Taste”, etc.
First world war Burliuk was not subject to conscription because he did not have a left eye. He lived in Moscow, published poetry, contributed to newspapers, and painted pictures.
In the spring of 1915, Burliuk found himself in the Ufa province (Iglino station of the Samara-Zlatoust railway), where his wife's estate was located. David Burliuk’s mother, Lyudmila Iosifovna Mikhnevich, lived at that time in Buzdyak, 80 km from Ufa. In the two years he spent here before leaving, he managed to create about two hundred canvases. 37 of them constitute the essential and most bright part collection of Russian art of the early 20th century, presented at the Bashkir Art Museum. M. V. Nesterova. Today, the museum's collection of works by David Burliuk is one of the most complete and high-quality collections of his paintings in Russia. Burliuk often came to Ufa, visits Ufa art club, which rallied young Bashkir artists around itself. Here he became friends with the artist Alexander Tyulkin, with whom he often makes sketches.
In 1918, Burliuk miraculously escaped death during the pogroms and executions of anarchists in Moscow and again left for Ufa. In 1918-1920 he toured with V. Kamensky and V. Mayakovsky in the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East.
In 1920 he emigrated to Japan, where he lived for two years, studying the culture of the East and painting. Here he painted about 300 paintings with Japanese motifs, the money from the sale of which was enough to move to America. In 1922 he settled in the USA.
In New York, Burliuk became active in pro-Soviet groups and, by writing a poem for the 10th anniversary October Revolution, sought, in particular, to gain recognition as the “father of Russian futurism.” He was a regular contributor to the Russian Voice newspaper. Burliuk published his collections, brochures, and magazines together with his wife Maria Nikiforovna and through friends distributed these publications mainly within the USSR. Since 1930, for decades, Burliuk himself published the magazine “Color and Rhyme” (“Color and Rhyme”), partly in English, partly in Russian, ranging from 4 to 100 pages, with his paintings, poems, reviews, reproductions of futurist works etc. Burliuk’s works participated in exhibitions of the group that existed in the late 1920s - early 1930s Soviet artists"13".
In 1956 and 1965 visited the USSR. Despite repeated proposals to publish his works in the USSR, he failed to print a single line.
Wife - Maria Nikiforovna Elenevskaya (1894-1967) - memoirist, publisher. In 1962, the couple traveled around Australia and Italy and visited Prague, where his sister lived. Painting works Burliuk exhibited in Brisbane.
Died January 15, 1967 in Hampton Bays, New York. His body was cremated according to his will and his ashes were scattered by relatives over the waters of the Atlantic from the ferry. Elena Schwartz responded to the news of his death with poetry:
O Russian Polyphemus!
Harmony goad
Your eye is burned out
Sweet music ate our eyes,
Like soap, and your moan was not heard
for us.
PHOTOS OF DIFFERENT YEARS:
Nikolai Feshin “Portrait of the artist D. D. Burliuk (D. D. Burliuk gives a lecture)” (1923).
Oil on canvas. 123.1 x 83.4 cm.Museum Collection fine arts pcs. New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexico, USA.
A SELECTION OF THE ARTIST'S WORKS
Portrait of V.V. Mayakovsky 
Portrait of V.V. Mayakovsky
Portrait of a woman in a yellow dress
Black Horse, ChS 
"Rainbow
Portrait of Moses Soyer, ChS
Portrait of S. Eisenstein
Portrait of the futurist poet Vasily Kamensky
Flowers by the Sea, ChS
Osip Mandelstam
Unspeakable sadness
She opened two huge eyes,
Flower woke up vase
And she threw out her crystal.
The whole room is drunk
Exhaustion is a sweet medicine!
Such a small kingdom
So much was consumed by sleep.
A little red wine,
A little sunny May -
And, breaking a thin biscuit,
The thinnest fingers are white.
Artist David Burliuk, 1954
Still life with a jug
Winter Still Life, 1947 Emergency
Terrace
Sunflowers
Temple gate in Japan
Mythological Scene, 1944 -1945
David Davidovich Burliuk (9 (21) July 1882, Russian Empire Semirotovka village, Lebedinsky district, Kharkov province (now Sumy region of Ukraine) - January 15, 1967, Hampton Bays, Long Island, New York, USA) - Russian poet and artist of Ukrainian origin, one of the founders of Russian futurism.
Biography of David Burliuk
Born in the village of Semirotovshchina, Kharkov province. His father, a descendant of “Cossack merchants,” began in 1885, having sold the farm, and held the position of manager in a number of estates in the Kharkov, Kursk, Tver, Moscow, and Kherson provinces. Mother - nee L. I. Mikhnevich - sister of feuilletonist V. I. Mikhnevich. The younger brothers - Vladimir and Nikolai - became artists and at the same time published poems in futuristic publications.
Since the family often moved, David studied at gymnasiums in Sumy, Tambov, and Tver.
In 1892, he became interested in painting under the influence of the artist K. Pervukhin, brother of the Burlyuks’ home teacher. Burliuk's first poem dates back to 1897.
In 1898 he entered the Kazan Art School, in 1899 he transferred to the Odessa Art School, but in 1901 he returned to Kazan.
In 1909 he re-entered and graduated from the Odessa Art School.
In 1910 he entered the Moscow Art School of Painting and Sculpture. In 1909 – 1910 Burliuk acted as the organizer of the “Budetyan” group, which united young poets and artists who rejected the canons of symbolist aesthetics.
Burliuk's creativity
Burliuk began as an artist, even participated in the famous exhibition “Jack of Diamonds” (December 1910) and later was an active member of the art society of the same name.
In 1911-1914 he studied together with V. Mayakovsky at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. At the same time, Burliuk took part in the first poetic almanacs - “Impressionist Studio”, “Tank of Judges”, “Slap in the Face of Public Taste”, which were the beginning of Russian futurism.
He, as they say now, “promoted” successful project called "Gilea", uniting around a group of poets and artists, later called Cubo-Futurists. Burliuk’s main “star” was Mayakovsky, whom, according to Shershenevich, “he presented to the public on a platter, chewed it and put it in his mouth.
He was good cook futurism and knew how to “deliciously serve” the poet.” It was his scandalous figure in the eyes of the public that became the embodiment of the essence of futurism.
In 1918, Burliuk left Moscow and toured the cities of Siberia and the Far East, promoting the work of the Futurists.
In 1920 he left for Japan, and from there in 1922 - for permanent residence in the USA.
In 1956 and 1965 visited the USSR. Despite repeated proposals to publish his works in the USSR, he failed to print a single line. Died January 15, 1967 in Hampton Bays, New York. His body was cremated according to his will and his ashes were scattered by relatives over the waters of the Atlantic from the ferry.
Burliuk's paintings and drawings are scattered all over the world in museums and private collections. Many of them are reproduced in his books or books about him. “The Father of Russian Futurism,” Burliuk took an active part in the performances of the futurists, being their theorist, poet, artist and critic.
Artist's works
- Landscape with trees
- Landscape with a road
- Marusya
- In the park
- Portrait of the futurist poet Vasily Kamensky
- Temple gate in Japan
- Portrait of Eisenstein
- Horses
- Lightning Horse
- The arrival of spring and summer
- Love and peace
- Revolution
- Heads
On July 21, 1882, the poet and artist David Burliuk, one of the founders of Russian futurism, was born.
Personal matter
David Davidovich Burliuk(1882 - 1967) was born on the Semirotovka farm in the Kharkov province, where his father worked as an agronomist. The family had six children. WITH early years the boy showed a penchant for painting. He studied at the Tambov, Tver and Sumy gymnasiums, then at the Kazan and Odessa art schools, then went abroad, where he studied at the Royal Academy in Munich and the School of Fine Arts in Paris. Participated in art exhibitions.
Returning to Russia, in 1907-1908 he became friends with left-wing artists and participated in art exhibitions. Entered Moscow school painting, sculpture and architecture, where he met Vladimir Mayakovsky.
In the 1910s, Burliuk became the leader of a group of artists and poets who were looking for new ways to develop art. Soon they chose a name for themselves - futurists.
On the estate of the Mordvinov counts in the village of Chernyanka in the Taurida province, where his father worked as a manager, David founded the colony “Gilea”, which included Velemir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Benedikt Livshits, Vasily Kamensky, Alexey Kruchenykh, Elena Guro.
“Gilea” has published almanacs: “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”, “Tank of Judges 2”, “Trebnik of Three”, “Three”, “Dead Moon” (1913), “Milk of Mares”, “Gag”, “Roaring Parnassus”, “ The first magazine of Russian futurists" (1914), "Spring counterparty of muses", "Took" (1915). Burliuk and other “Gileans” took part in numerous literary debates, promoting leftist art. These performances were remembered for the deliberate shocking effect of the audience. In 1914, Burliuk and Mayakovsky were expelled from the school “for participating in public disputes.”
During the First World War, Burliuk was not subject to conscription for medical reasons. He lived in Moscow, published poetry, contributed to newspapers, and painted pictures. In the spring of 1915, he left for the Ufa province to the Iglino station, where his wife’s estate was located. During the two years he spent there, he created about two hundred paintings.
Returning to Moscow after the revolution, David Burliuk miraculously escaped death during the pogroms. He again left for Ufa and further - to Siberia and Far East, where he gave lectures, organized exhibitions, and sold his paintings.
Burliuk traveled across the whole country - he visited Zlatoust, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Chita.
In October 1918, in Zlatoust, Burliuk published his first collection of poems, “The Balding Tail” - a small brochure, published in two thousand copies, quickly sold out, and in February 1919 its second edition was published in Kurgan.
David Burliuk's "Great Siberian Tour", which lasted for almost a year, still remains a blank spot in his literary biography. It is known that he gave lectures (“Futurism is the art of modernity”) and reading works of his literary comrades, organized exhibitions of paintings and promoted new art in the provincial press. Despite difficult circumstances, he managed to publish the second “Futurist Newspaper” in Tomsk in April 1919, with poems by Mayakovsky: Burliuk published the first “Futurist Newspaper” in Moscow in March 1918.
On June 25, 1919, Burliuk reached Vladivostok, where he met with S. Tretyakov who was there.
With the arrival of Burliuk, Vladivostok becomes the base of the united futurists of Siberia. Aseev wrote: “It is expected that in the coming winter season the united futurists will perform in concert, both at literary field, as well as organizing art exhibitions, a futuristic bookstore, lectures, performances, etc.”
After Vladivostok, Burliuk gave lectures and organized exhibitions in Harbin. From 1920 he lived in Japan, and from 1922 - in the USA. Wrote memoirs about Siberia 1918 - 1919 “Notes common man about very recent days" and published them in several issues of the New York newspaper "Russian Voice" in July 1923. He also wrote collections short prose"By Pacific Ocean"(New York, 1925) and "Oshima. Japanese Decameron" (1927), based on Japanese impressions. He continued to engage in painting and literature, publishing the magazine “Color and Rhyme”.
In New York he became close to a circle of proletarian writers in North America and took part in the release of the almanac “Captured by Skyscrapers” (1924). In the same year, the almanac “Subway Pipe” and the collection “Today of Russian Poetry” were published. In total, in the 1920s - 1930s, more than twenty books by Burliuk were published in the United States, which, as a rule, contained poems, drawings, theoretical articles, graphic poetry, excerpts from diaries and memoirs. The covers read “D. Burliuk. Poet, artist, lecturer. The Father of Russian Futurism." After the 1930s he worked mainly as an artist. In 1956 and 1965, Burliuk came to the Soviet Union.
What is he famous for?
David Burliuk. 1919
Now David Burliuk is best known not even for his own poetic and pictorial creativity, but for his defining and organizing role in Russian modernist art of the early 20th century. It was largely thanks to Burliuk - “a frantic agitator, debater, inventor, compiler of loud statements and manifestos” - that Russian futurism took shape as an independent movement. And the role of Burliuk in the fate of the young poet Mayakovsky is absolutely enormous.
What you need to know
Unfortunately, modern viewers know little about the work of David Burliuk the artist, yet he owns many interesting landscapes, portraits, still lifes and genre paintings, graphic works. There are several paintings by Burliuk in Tretyakov Gallery, but the most interesting collection is in the Bashkir State art museum named after Nesterov.
Works created during the American period of David Burliuk's life are in private collection his granddaughter Mary Claire Burliuk.
Direct speech
"True work of art can be compared to a battery from which the energy of electrical suggestions comes. In each work, like in a theatrical performance, a certain number of hours are marked for admiring and looking at it. Many works contain reserves of esthete energy for long periods of time.”
David Burliuk
“Burliuk appeared at the school. Looks arrogant. Lornetka. Frock coat. Walks around humming. I started to bully. Almost got into trouble. Noble meeting. Concert. Rachmaninov. Island of the Dead. I was running away from unbearable melodic boredom. A minute later and Burliuk. They burst out laughing at each other. They went out to hang out together. Talk. From Rachmaninov’s boredom they switched to school boredom, from school boredom to all classical boredom. David has the anger of a master who has surpassed his contemporaries, I have the pathos of a socialist who knows the inevitability of the collapse of old things. Russian futurism was born. This afternoon I published a poem. Or rather, pieces. Bad. Not printed anywhere. Night. Sretensky Boulevard. I read lines to Burliuk. I add - this is one of my friends. David stopped. He examined me. He barked: “But you wrote it yourself! But you genius poet". The application of such a grandiose and undeserved epithet to me made me happy. I completely lost myself in poetry. That evening, quite unexpectedly, I became a poet. Already in the morning, Burliuk, introducing me to someone, boomed: “Don’t you know? My brilliant friend. Famous poet Mayakovsky." I push. But Burliuk is adamant. He also growled at me, walking away: "Now write. Otherwise you are putting me in a stupid position."
Vladimir Mayakovsky “I myself”
Everyone is young, young, young
There's a damn hunger in my stomach
So follow me...
Behind my back
I shout proudly
This short speech!
Let's eat grass stones
Sweetness bitterness and poison
Let's dig into the void
Depth and height
Birds, animals, monsters, fish,
Wind, clay, salt and swell!
Everyone is young, young, young
There's a damn hunger in my stomach
Everything we meet along the way
Maybe it can be used as food for us.
Artificial eye
covered himself with a lorgnette;
curved mouth in sarcasm
hummed,
it seemed like something polite;
but caustic
mockery
knew how to kill outright.
Nikolay Aseev
“One evening, when I was about to go to bed, Alexandra Exter suddenly knocked on my door. She wasn't alone. Following her, he burst into the room tall a heavy-set man in a wide, long-pile drape coat, according to the fashion of that time. The man who came in looked to be about thirty years old, but the excessive bagginess of his figure and what seemed like a deliberate clumsiness in his movements confused any idea of his age. Extending me a disproportionately small hand with too short fingers, he called himself: “David Burliuk.” By bringing him to me, Exter fulfilled not only my long-standing desire, but also her own: to bring me closer to a group of her comrades who occupied with her the extreme left flank in the already three-year struggle against the academic canon.”
Benedict Livshits "The One and a Half Eyed Sagittarius"
“We came to Moscow about two years ago American tourists— David Burliuk with his wife. Burliuk paints in America, earns decent money, has become respectable and handsome; there is no lorgnette, no pregnant man"Futurism now seems to me much more ancient than Ancient Greece."
Ilya Erenburg “People, years, life”
11 facts about David Burliuk
- One of David Burliuk's brothers, Vladimir, and sister Lyudmila became artists, another brother, Nikolai, became a poet.
- As a child, David Burliuk accidentally lost his eye while playing. Later, the monocle with a glass eye became an element of his futurist style.
- In Munich, one of David Burliuk's teachers was the outstanding Austro-Hungarian artist of Slovenian origin Anton Azbe. He called Burliuk “an amazing wild steppe horse.”
- The poem “Every Young is Young is Young” is a free translation of the poem “Feast of Hunger” (“Fetes de la faim”) by the French symbolist poet Jean-Arthur Rimbaud. This is indicated by the title “I. A.R.,” which means “from Arthur Rimbaud.”
- David Burliuk was first called “the father of Russian futurism” by Wassily Kandinsky.
- The second personal collection of poems by David Burliuk was published in Japan in 1921 and was called “Climbing Mount Fuji-san.”
- After the earthquake that occurred in 1923, which almost completely destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama, Burliuk organized a charity exhibition and sale of his works in New York to raise funds to help the victims.
- Burliuk met and accompanied Mayakovsky and Yesenin, who came to the United States in the mid-1920s, on trips around the country.
- It was Burliuk who introduced Vladimir Mayakovsky to the Russian emigrant Ellie Jones (née Siebert), who became the mother of Mayakovsky’s only child, Patricia.
- During World War II, Burliuk created great job"Children of Stalingrad" (1944), which is sometimes called Burliuk's "Guernica".
- Russian poets who continue the traditions of futurism and researchers (regardless of nationality) studying the Russian avant-garde are awarded annual bonus- International mark in honor of the father of Russian futurism, David Burliuk.
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