Mstislav Valeryanovich DOBUZHINSKY
Born 1875, Novgorod - Died 1967, New York
Painter, graphic artist and theatre designer.
Paintings and Graphic Work Theatre Biography
Note: other work by this artist may be viewed under the movement Mass and Agit Art.
Paintings and Graphic Work
City Grimaces. 1908.
Watercolor and gouache on paper. 29.2 x 22 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Peter the Great in Holland: Amsterdam, the Warf of the East India Company (sketch). 1910.
Oil on paper mounted on cardboard. 41 x 52.8 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Man with Spectacles. Portrait of the Art Critic and poet Konstantin Siunnenberg (Pseudonym of Konstantin Erberg). 1905 - 1906.
Charcoal, watercolor accented with white on paper mounted on cardboard. 63.3 x 99.6 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The Provinces in the 1830s. 1907 - 1909.
Watercolor and pencil heightened with white on paper. 60 x 83.5
cm.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Painted ceiling of the Main Staircase in Nossov's Private Estate in Moscow. 1912-1913.
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Vitebsk. 1919.
Watercolor, ink, pen on paper, 47.5 x 57.7 cm.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
A Cottage in St-Petersburg. 1905.
Pastel and gouache on paper mounted on cardboard. 37 x 49 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Barbershop Window. 1906.
Watercolor, gouache and charcoal on paper. 29.7 x 21.7 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Omnibus in Vilna. 1907.
Pastel on paper. 53 x 37 cm.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Landscape of Petersburg. ( A Small House in St. Petersburg). 1905
Pastel, gouache, pencil on paper mounted on cardboard.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Theatre:
Composition on the Theme of the Performance "A Month in the Country" by I. Turghenev. 1919.
Watercolor and gouache on cardboard, 31.3x50 cm.
The I. Brodsky Museum St. Petersburg.
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Biography:
Dobuzhinski has studied at the Drawing School of OPKh (Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts), St Petersburg; in 1895-1899 at the law faculty of Petersburg University, in 1899-1901 at the school of A.Aschbe and S.Kholloschi in Munich.
He visited many countries in Europe and America.
Was a member of the World of Art group (1902-1924) and of the Union of Russian Artists (1904-1909).
From 1907 the artist has worked for theatre, designed ballets to Diagilev's enterprise.
Participated in exhibitions abroad: 1906 in Berlin, 1906 and 1928 in Paris, 1910 in Brussels, 1911 in Rome, 1913 in Venice, 1924 in Dresden, 1928 in Copenhagen, 1928 in Amsterdam.
He has held a one-man show in 1925 in Tallinn.
From 1924 Dobuzhinski has lived in Lithuania and in Paris. From 1929 lived and worked in USA.