Leupold survage biography

  • Léopold Frédéric Léopoldowitsch Survage was a Russian-French painter of Finnish origin.
  • Léopold Frédéric Léopoldowitsch Survage was a Russian-French painter of Finnish origin.
  • Born in Moscow in , as a child he dreamt about becoming an architect but seeing the works of Gauguin and Cézanne in the Morosov collection made him decide.
  • Survage was directed to enter the piano factory operated by his Finnish father, and besides learning the piano he took a commercial diploma in  After becoming severely ill at the age of 22, he rethought his career and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Introduced to the modern movement through the collections of Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morosov, he joined the ranks of the Moscow avant-garde and by was close to the circle associated with the magazine Zolotoye runo.

    Leopold Survage settled in Paris in and worked as a piano tuner and briefly attended the short-lived school run by Henri Matisse. He was influenced by Cezanne and later by Cubism.

    He exhibited with the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow in late , but he first showed his work in France (at the urging of Archipenko) only in the Salon d’Automne of

    Inspired by trends in sammanfattning and cubist painting and the burgeoning development of cinematic techniques, Survage began work on

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  • Leopold Survage 

    Biography of Leopold Survage  ( )

    A French painter of Russian origin, Léopold Survage was born in Moscow on 31 July , where his father was a piano maker. After leaving school, he worked with his father, then became an apprentice in a piano company in Two years later he entered the Moscow School of Fine Arts, where he studied under Constantin Korovine. During a visit to Sergei Shchukin's private collection, he was moved to discover works by Manet, Gauguin, Matisse and the Impressionists: a revelation. He quickly painted his first works and took part in various exhibitions in Moscow alongside his friends Sudeikin and Sapunov. His father ruined, Survage liquidated his business and moved to Paris with the little money he had left at the beginning of July

    He attended the Académie Matisse and from exhibited colourful works inspired by Cubism, notably at the Salon des Indépendants. Introduced to the Parisian art scene by Guillaume Apollinaire, he soon became

    Léopold Survage Russian,

    Léopold Survage was born in Moscow, Russia, in At the age of twenty two, in , he attended the Moscow School of Fine Arts. He was strongly influenced at the time by the Russian avant-garde and exhibited with Alexander Archipenko, in the company of David Burlyuk, Vladimir Burlyuk, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova in

     

    By Léopold Survage had settled in Paris with his wife where he briefly attended the short-lived art school run by Henri Matisse. He first showed his work in Paris in at the Salon d'Automne.

     

    In the years preceding the First World War, Survage worked on an ambitious project producing coloured abstract compositions entitled Coloured Rhythm, which he planned to animate on film to evoke different emotions and sensations in the viewer.

     

    He visualised these abstract images flowing together to form "symphonies in colour" but due to the intervention of the First World War this project did no