Karl Ioganson
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 Karl Ioganson, Moscow, c1922. | |
| Born |
January 16, 1890 Cēsis, Latvia, Russian Empire |
|---|---|
| Died |
October 18, 1929 (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.
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Works
Drawings for the construction/composition debate at Inkhuk
Ioganson, Construction, 1921. Colored pencil and pencil on paper, 24.1 x 32.3 cm. Costakis.
Ioganson, Composition, 1921. Colored pencil, ink, and pencil on paper, 31.8 x 24.3 cm. Costakis.
Spatial Constructions
Spatial Constructions [Пространственные конструкции], 1921. Wood, metal, and wire. Dimensions unknown.
Literature
- Селим Хан-Магомедов, "Пространственные конструкции К. Иогансона, К. Медунецкого, В. и Г. Стенбергов и А. Родченко", in Хан-Магомедов, Архитектура советского авангарда, 1, Moscow: Stroyizdat, 1996. (Russian)
- Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Karl Ioganson, Nikolai Tarabukin and Russian Constructivism, 1918-1926, Harvard University, 1997. Dissertation. Incl. Ioganson's Ot konstruktsii k tekhnike i izobreteniiu and its EN trans. as From Construction to Tekhnika and Invention. (English)
- Maria Gough, "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, The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution, University of California Press, 2005, pp 60-99. (English)
- Maria Gough, The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution, University of California Press, 2005, 257 pp. (English)
