Lev Nusberg

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Born June 1, 1937(1937-06-01)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Soviet Union

Born Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg 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 (MSKhSh, 1951-58). The eye-opening for him was the Picasso exhibition in Moscow (1956). 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 the United States in 1976, and led a hermetic life in Orange, Connecticut, afterwards. He moved from kinetic art to surrealist painting, and keeps rewriting the history of the movement.

Works

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)

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