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Ivan Albertovich Puni[1] (Russian: Иван Альбертович Пуни; also known as Jean Pougny; 20 February 1892 – 28 December 1956)[2][3][4] was a Russian avant-garde artist (Suprematist, Cubo-Futurist).

Ivan Puni
Born	Ivan Albertovich Puni (1892-02-20)20 February 1892 Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died	28 December 1956(1956-12-28) (aged 64) Paris, France

Biography

Early life

Ivan Puni was born in Kuokkala (then Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire, now Repino in Russia) to a family of Italian origins.[5] He was the grandson of an eminent Italian composer of ballet music, Cesare Pugni. His father, a cellist, insisted that he follow a military career, but Ivan instead decided to take private drawing lessons with Ilya Repin. By 1909, he had his own studio.[1]

Career

Puni continued his formal training in Paris in 1910–11 at the Académie Julien and other schools, where he painted in a derivative fauviste style. Upon his return to Russia in 1912, he married fellow artist Kseniya Boguslavskaya, and met, and exhibited with, members of the St Petersburg avant-garde, including Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin.[1] He made a second trip to Paris in 1914, returning to St. Petersburg in 1915. At this point, he began painting in a Cubist style reminiscent of Juan Gris. In 1915, Puni, (Aleksandra Ekster, Liubov Popova, Ivan Kliun, Ksenia Boguslavskaya, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Nina Genke and others) formed Supremus, a group of artists dedicated to the promulgation of Suprematism, the abstract art movement founded by Malevich, and first exhibited at the 0,10 Exhibition. Malevich and Puni co-authored the Suprematist Manifesto, published in 1916, which proclaimed a new, abstract art for a new historical era.

Puni also organized the exhibitions Tramway 5 and 0.10, both held in St Petersburg in 1915, in which Malevich, Tatlin, Popova and others participated, and to which Puni contributed constructions, readymades, and paintings.[1] In 1915-1916 Puni, together with other Suprematist artists, worked at Verbovka Village Folk Centre. In 1919, he taught at the Vitebsk Art School under Marc Chagall.[1]

Years of Exile

Puni and his wife, Kseniya Boguslavskaya, emigrated from Russia in 1919, first to Finland, then in 1920 to Berlin,[1] where the first exhibition consisting entirely of his work was held at the Galerie der Sturm. While in Berlin, Puni also designed costumes and sets for theatrical productions, and published a book criticising Suprematism.[1]

Puni and Boguslavskaya relocated to Paris in 1924,[1] where his style changed once again to a variant of Impressionism. In France, he signed his work as "Jean Pougny", in an effort to distance his new art practice from his previous one in Russia. In 1946, Puni/Pougny became a French citizen. He died in Paris in 1956.

See also

• Natalia Goncharova
• Mikhail Larionov

References

External links

• pougny-jean-ivan-puni-called Ivan Puni in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

На других языках

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[de] Iwan Albertowitsch Puni

Iwan Albertowitsch Puni (russisch Иван (Жан) Альбертович Пуни, wiss. Transliteration Ivan (Žan) Al'bertovič Puni; * 20. Februarjul. / 3. März 1892greg. in Kuokkala (heute Repino); † 28. Dezember 1956 in Paris; auch Ivan Puni oder Jean Pougny) war ein russischer Maler, der zur Russischen Avantgarde zählte und ein Vertreter des Futurismus war.

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- [en] Ivan Puni

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[fr] Jean Pougny

Ivan Albertovitch Pugni (en russe : Иван Альбертович Пуни), dit Jean Pougny, né le 20 février 1892 à Kuokkala (Grand-duché de Finlande, Empire russe) et mort à Paris le 28 décembre 1956 (à 64 ans), est un peintre franco-russe.

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[it] Ivan Puni

Ivan Puni (in russo: Иван Пуни?; Kuokkala, 20 febbraio 1894 – Parigi, 28 dicembre 1956) è stato un pittore russo del XX secolo, pioniere dell'astrattismo geometrico e dell'avanguardia russa. Trasferitosi in Francia nel 1923, e naturalizzato francese nel 1946, è conosciuto anche attraverso il cognome francesizzato che utilizzerà a partire dagli anni '30: Jean Pougny.

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[ru] Пуни, Иван Альбертович

Иван Альбертович Пу́ни, по-французски Жан Пуни́ (фр. Jean Pougny; 1892, Куоккала — 1956, Париж) — русско-французский художник, на протяжении творческого развития несколько раз кардинально менявший художественную манеру от авангардизма, кубизма, футуризма и супрематизма до лирического примитивизма в русле направления, в котором также работали Пьер Боннар и Эдуар Вюйяр.[1][2][3][4]

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