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| + | [[Image:Alexander_Grigoriev_and_Lev_Nussberg_shooting_the_exhibition_in_Sokolniki_Park_Moscow_1971.jpg|thumb|258px|[[Alexander Grigoriev]] and Nussberg shooting the exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, 1971.]] | ||
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Painter, kinetic artist. Born '''Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg''' [Лев Вальдемарович Нусберг (Нуссберг)] in 1937 in Tashkent. Son of German architect Woldemar Nussberg and Tatar mother Raisa Bespalovoya. In 1938 his father was convicted for "spying for a foreign power" and disappeared in gulag in Ural. In the end of the forties his mother failed to emigrate to Poland with him and ended up in Leningrad. Nussberg graduated from the Moscow Art School 1905 (MSKhSh, 1951-58). The eye-opening event for him was the Picasso exhibition in Moscow (1956). | Painter, kinetic artist. Born '''Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg''' [Лев Вальдемарович Нусберг (Нуссберг)] in 1937 in Tashkent. Son of German architect Woldemar Nussberg and Tatar mother Raisa Bespalovoya. In 1938 his father was convicted for "spying for a foreign power" and disappeared in gulag in Ural. In the end of the forties his mother failed to emigrate to Poland with him and ended up in Leningrad. Nussberg graduated from the Moscow Art School 1905 (MSKhSh, 1951-58). The eye-opening event for him was the Picasso exhibition in Moscow (1956). | ||
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File:Nusberg_Lev_1963_Construction_2.jpg|''Construction 2'', 1963. | File:Nusberg_Lev_1963_Construction_2.jpg|''Construction 2'', 1963. | ||
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Painter, kinetic artist. Born Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg [Лев Вальдемарович Нусберг (Нуссберг)] in 1937 in Tashkent. Son of German architect Woldemar Nussberg and Tatar mother Raisa Bespalovoya. In 1938 his father was convicted for "spying for a foreign power" and disappeared in gulag in Ural. In the end of the forties his mother failed to emigrate to Poland with him and ended up in Leningrad. Nussberg graduated from the Moscow Art School 1905 (MSKhSh, 1951-58). The eye-opening event for him was the Picasso exhibition in Moscow (1956).
"I want to work with electromagnetic fields, with pulsating plasma blobs in space, with the movement of gases and liquids, with glass and all kinds of optical effects, with the change of temperature and different smells and, of course, with the music." (Nussberg)
He formed the Dvizheniye group (1962-74) whose members included Francisco Infante and Viacheslav Koleichuk among others. The aim of the group was to create 'bio-centric' systems called Igrovye Bioniko-Kineticheskie Sistemy [playful bionic-kinetic systems]. A charismatic leader, Nussberg attracted people, but some members of the group (particularly Infante) found his management style 'totalitarian'. The group disbanded in 1972, and he founded the group Dynamik in Leningrad.
Nussberg emigrated to Germany in 1976. He held a number of exhibitions, in Dusseldorf and Paris (1976), Venice, Netherlands and London (1977), Bochum, Turin, Kassel, New York (1978), and in Bochum (1979). In 1980 he moved to the United States where he lives in Orange, Connecticut, afterwards. He moved from kinetic art to surrealist painting, and keeps rewriting the history of the movement.
Works
Construction 2, 1963.
Kinetic Sculpture, 1967.
Mars, kinetic object.
Literature
- Lev Nussberg, G. Goloweiko, Concept2" (serious joke): From the Ineditions Letters of K.S. Malevitsch (1878-1935) to L.V. Nussberg (1937-1998), New York, 1981.
- "Nussberg", in The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry, edited by Konstantin K Kuzminsky and Grigory L Kovalev, in 5(9) vol., ORP, 1980-86, vol. 2A, pp 113-221. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. (Russian)
- Collected writings by and on Nussberg, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. (Russian)
