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{{Infobox artist
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|caption = Karl Ioganson, Moscow, c1922.
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1890|1|16|mf=y}}
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|birth_place = Cēsis, Latvia, Russian Empire
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|death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|10|18|1890|1|16|mf=y}}
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|death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union
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|collections = [[Costakis::{{Costakis|Ioganson%20Karel}}|Costakis]]
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[[Image:Karl_Ioganson_Voldemars_Andersons_Karlis_Veidemanis_Gustav_Klucis_at_the_Kremlin_in_Lenins_Model_T_Ford_Summer_1918.jpg|thumb|258px|Karl Ioganson, [[Voldemars Andersons]], [[Karlis Veidemanis]], and [[Gustav Klutsis]] pose in Lenin's Model T Ford at the Kremlin, Summer 1918. All four artists were members of a detachment of Latvian machine gunners appointed to guard the Kremlin after Lenin's transfer of the Russian capital to Moscow in March 1918.]]
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'''Karl Ioganson''' (Kārlis Johansons, Kaрл Вольдемарович Иогансон; 1890-1929) was a Latvian and Russian Constructivist artist.
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==Works==
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===Spatial Constructions===
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<onlyinclude>{{#ifeq:{{{transcludesection|SpatialConstr}}}|SpatialConstr|
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<gallery>
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Ioganson_Karl_c1920_Study_in_Balance.jpg|''Study in Balance'', c1920.
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Ioganson_Karl_1920_Construction_from_Spatial_Cross_series.jpg|Construction from ''Spatial Cross'' series, c1920.
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Ioganson_Karl_1921_Spatial_Constructions.jpg|''Spatial Constructions'' [Пространственные конструкции], 1921. Wood, metal, and wire. Dimensions unknown.
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Ioganson_Karl_1921_2014c_Spatial_Construction.jpg|''Spatial Construction'', 1921. Reconstruction by Viacheslav Koleichuk and Juris Sils. Photo: Reinis Hofmanis.
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</gallery>
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}}</onlyinclude>
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===Drawings for the construction/composition debate at Inkhuk===
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<onlyinclude>{{#ifeq:{{{transcludesection|ConstrComp}}}|ConstrComp|
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<gallery>
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Ioganson_Karl_1921_Graphic_Representation_of_a_Construction.jpg|Ioganson, ''Graphic Representation of a Construction'', 7 Apr 1921. Colored pencil and pencil on paper, 32.3 x 24.1 cm. [http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/collections/db/search.html?StylesIndexingTerms=85&start=79&show=1 Costakis].
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Ioganson_Karl_1921_Plan_of_a_Composition_Natur-Morte.jpg|Ioganson, ''Plan of a Composition: Natur-Morte'', 7 Apr 1921. Colored pencil, ink, and pencil on paper, 24.3 x 31.8 cm. [http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/collections/db/search.html?StylesIndexingTerms=85&start=78&show=1 Costakis].
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</gallery>
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}}</onlyinclude>
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===Drawings related to the 1921-22 debate on production art at Inkhuk===
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<gallery>
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Ioganson_Karl_1922_Construction_by_Ioganson_Representation.jpg|''Construction by Ioganson (Representation)'', 1922. Paper collage, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. 45.5 x 33.7 cm. [http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/collections/db/search.html?primary_control_0=AN&secondary_control_0=S&tertiary_control_text_0=Ioganson%20Karel&sort_order=1&start=1&show=1 Costakis]
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Ioganson_Karl_1922_Electrical_Circuit_Representation.jpg|''Electrical Circuit (Representation)'', 1922. Paper collage, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. 45.4 x 33.6 cm. [http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/collections/db/search.html?primary_control_0=AN&secondary_control_0=S&tertiary_control_text_0=Ioganson%20Karel&sort_order=1&start=2&show=1 Costakis]
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</gallery>
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==Writings==
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* "Ot konstruktsii k tekhnike i izobreteniiu" [От конструкции к технике и изобретению] [9 Mar 1922], typescript, 3 pp; Khan-Magomedov collection, Moscow; printed in Maria Gough, ''The Artist as Producer'', Harvard University, 1997. Given as lecture at [[INKhUK]] as part of the ongoing discussion about a "move into production"; outlines two different kinds of construction: the "artistic" and "real 'structural-technical'" (''podlinnyi "stroitel'no-tekhnicheskii"''), and argues that the role of the Constructivist artist must be not that of a creator of utilitarian objects (as in ''tekhnika'') but of an inventor (''izobretatel' ''). {{ru}}
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** "From Construction to Technology and Invention", trans. James West, in ''Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914-1932'', eds. Richard Andrews and Milena Kalinovska, New York: Rizzoli, 1990, p 70. {{en}}
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** "From Construction to Tekhnika and Invention", in Maria Gough, ''The Artist as Producer'', Harvard University, 1997. {{en}}
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==Literature==
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* S.O. Khan-Magomedov (Селим Хан-Магомедов), [http://www.alyoshin.ru/Files/publika/khan_archi/khan_archi_1_033.html "Пространственные конструкции К. Иогансона, К. Медунецкого, В. и Г. Стенбергов и А. Родченко"], in Khan-Magomedov, ''Arkhitektura sovetskogo avangarda, 1'' [Архитектура советского авангарда, 1], Moscow: Stroyizdat, 1996. {{ru}}
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* Maria Gough, ''The Artist as Producer: Karl Ioganson, Nikolai Tarabukin and Russian Constructivism, 1918-1926'', Harvard University, 1997. Dissertation. {{en}}
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* {{a|Gough1998}} Maria Gough, [[Media:Gough_Maria_1998_In_the_Laboratory_of_Constructivism_Karl_Iogansons_Cold_Structures.pdf|"In the Laboratory of Constructivism. Karl Ioganson's Cold Structures"]], ''October'' 84 (Spring 1998), pp 90-117; new version as "In the Laboratory of Constructivism", ch. 2 in Gough, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11816 The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution]'', University of California Press, 2005, pp 60-99. {{en}}
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* [http://bobwb.tripod.com/synergetics/photos/snelson_gough.html "Letter from Kenneth Snelson to Maria Gough on Karl Ioganson"], 17 Jun 2003. {{en}}
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* Maria Gough, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11816 The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution]'', University of California Press, 2005, 257 pp. {{en}}
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* http://archvuz.ru/2006_4/29
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==See also==
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* [[OBMOKhU]]
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* [[INKhUK]]
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* [[Russia#Avant-garde]]
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==Links==
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* [http://vimeo.com/101699564 Demonstration video by Juris Sils], 2014.
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* [http://newcoldstructure.wordpress.com Reenactments of Ioganson's works], 2014.
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* [http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/Ioganson,+Karl Article on Ioganson at Tensegrity wiki]
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* [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Иогансон,_Карл_Вольдемарович Ioganson at Russian Wikipedia]
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Revision as of 22:00, 19 May 2016


Karl Ioganson, Moscow, c1922.
Born January 16, 1890(1890-01-16)
Cēsis, Latvia, Russian Empire
Died October 18, 1929(1929-10-18) (aged 39)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Collections Costakis
Karl Ioganson, Voldemars Andersons, Karlis Veidemanis, and Gustav Klutsis pose in Lenin's Model T Ford at the Kremlin, Summer 1918. All four artists were members of a detachment of Latvian machine gunners appointed to guard the Kremlin after Lenin's transfer of the Russian capital to Moscow in March 1918.

Karl Ioganson (Kārlis Johansons, Kaрл Вольдемарович Иогансон; 1890-1929) was a Latvian and Russian Constructivist artist.

Works

Spatial Constructions

  • Study in Balance, c1920.

  • Construction from Spatial Cross series, c1920.

  • Spatial Constructions [Пространственные конструкции], 1921. Wood, metal, and wire. Dimensions unknown.

  • Spatial Construction, 1921. Reconstruction by Viacheslav Koleichuk and Juris Sils. Photo: Reinis Hofmanis.

Drawings for the construction/composition debate at Inkhuk

  • Ioganson, Graphic Representation of a Construction, 7 Apr 1921. Colored pencil and pencil on paper, 32.3 x 24.1 cm. Costakis.

  • Ioganson, Plan of a Composition: Natur-Morte, 7 Apr 1921. Colored pencil, ink, and pencil on paper, 24.3 x 31.8 cm. Costakis.

Drawings related to the 1921-22 debate on production art at Inkhuk

  • Construction by Ioganson (Representation), 1922. Paper collage, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. 45.5 x 33.7 cm. Costakis

  • Electrical Circuit (Representation), 1922. Paper collage, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. 45.4 x 33.6 cm. Costakis

Writings

  • "Ot konstruktsii k tekhnike i izobreteniiu" [От конструкции к технике и изобретению] [9 Mar 1922], typescript, 3 pp; Khan-Magomedov collection, Moscow; printed in Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer, Harvard University, 1997. Given as lecture at INKhUK as part of the ongoing discussion about a "move into production"; outlines two different kinds of construction: the "artistic" and "real 'structural-technical'" (podlinnyi "stroitel'no-tekhnicheskii"), and argues that the role of the Constructivist artist must be not that of a creator of utilitarian objects (as in tekhnika) but of an inventor (izobretatel' ). (Russian)
    • "From Construction to Technology and Invention", trans. James West, in Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914-1932, eds. Richard Andrews and Milena Kalinovska, New York: Rizzoli, 1990, p 70. (English)
    • "From Construction to Tekhnika and Invention", in Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer, Harvard University, 1997. (English)

Literature

See also

Links

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