Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; uk, Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian and American
avant-garde
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artist
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,
sculptor
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, and
graphic artist
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. He was one of the first to apply the principles of
Cubism
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to architecture, analyzing human figure into geometrical forms.
Biography
Alexander Archipenko was born in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
(
Russian Empire
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, now
Ukraine
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) in 1887, to Porfiry Antonowych Archipenko and Poroskowia Vassylivna Machowa Archipenko; he was the younger brother of
Eugene Archipenko
Eugene Porfirovych Archipenko ( uk, Євген Порфирович Архипенко) (1884–1959) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian politician, agronomist, and beekeeping, beekeeper.
Archipenko was born in Kaharlyk in the Russian Empire to Porfiry ...
.
From 1902 to 1905 he attended the Kyiv Art School (KKHU). In 1906 he continued his education in the arts at
Serhiy Svetoslavsky (Kyiv), and later that year had an exhibition there with
Alexander Bogomazov
Alexander Bogomazov or Oleksandr Bohomazov (russian: Александр Константинович Богомазов, uk, Олександр Костянтинович Богомазов; March 26, 1880 – June 3, 1930) was a Ukrainian painte ...
. He then moved to
Moscow
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where he had a chance to exhibit his work in some group shows.
Archipenko moved to
Paris
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in 1908
and quickly enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts, which he left after a few weeks. He was a resident in the artist's colony
La Ruche, among
émigré
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French Huguenots
Many French Huguenots fled France followi ...
Ukrainian artists:
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* Wladimir Brunet de Presle (1809–1875), French historian
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,
Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Sonia Delaunay (13 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to Fr ...
and
Nathan Altman
Nathan Isaiovych Altman (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: , transliterated: ''Natan Isaiovych Altman''; – December 12, 1970) was a Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian artist, Cubist Painting, painter, stage designer and book illustrator.
Early life
...
. After 1910 he had exhibitions at ''
Salon des Indépendants
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* French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home
* Salon (gathering), a meeting for learning or enjoyment
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* Salon (P ...
'', ''
Salon d'Automne
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'' together with
Aleksandra Ekster
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,
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ; german: Kasimir Malewitsch; pl, Kazimierz Malewicz; russian: Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич ; uk, Казимир Северинович Малевич, translit=Kazymyr Severynovych ...
,
Vadym Meller
Vadym Meller or Vadim Meller, (russian: Вадим Георгиевич Меллер; uk, Вадим Георгійович Меллер, 1884–1962) was a Ukrainian Soviet painter, avant-garde Cubist, Constructivist and Expressionist artis ...
,
Sonia Delaunay-Terk
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,
Georges Braque
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,
André Derain
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Biography
Early years
Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. I ...
and others.
In 1912 Archipenko had his first personal exhibition at the
Museum Folkwang
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at
Hagen
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in Germany, and from 1912 to 1914 he was teaching at his own Art School in Paris.
Four of Archipenko's
Cubist sculpture
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s, including ''Family Life'' and five of his drawings, appeared in the controversial ''
Armory Show
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'' in 1913 in
New York City
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. These works were caricatured in the
New York World
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.
Archipenko moved to
Nice
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in 1914. In 1920 he participated in ''Twelfth Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte di Venezia'' in
Italy
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and started his own Art school in
Berlin
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the following year. In 1922 Archipenko participated in the ''
First Russian Art Exhibition
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'' in the
Gallery van Diemen in Berlin together with Aleksandra Ekster, Kazimir Malevich,
Solomon Nikritin Solomon Nikritin ( uk, Соломон Борисовiч Нiкрiтiн; 1898–1965) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian Painting, painter, avant-garde artist ( Neo-Primitivist, Constructivism (art), Constructivist), philosopher, and author.
Biography
Solom ...
,
El Lissitzky
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, ; – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Эль Лиси́цкий; yi, על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist ...
and others.
In 1923 he emigrated to the United States.
He became a US citizen in 1929. In 1933 he exhibited at the Ukrainian pavilion in
Chicago
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as part of the
Century of Progress
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World's Fair. Alexander Archipenko contributed the most to the success of the Ukrainian pavilion. His works occupied one room and were valued at $25,000 dollars.
In 1936 Archipenko participated in an exhibition ''Cubism and Abstract Art'' in New York as well as numerous exhibitions in
Europe
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and other places in the U.S. He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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in 1962.
Alexander Archipenko died on February 25, 1964, in New York City.
He is interred at
Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.
Contribution to art
Archipenko, along with the French-Hungarian sculptor
Joseph Csaky
Joseph Csaky (also written Josef Csàky, Csáky József, József Csáky and Joseph Alexandre Czaky) (18 March 1888 – 1 May 1971) was a Hungarian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, best known for his early participation in the ...
, exhibited at the first public manifestations of
Cubism
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in Paris; the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d'Automne, 1910 and 1911, being the first, after Picasso, to employ the Cubist style in three dimensions.
Archipenko departed from the
neo-classical sculpture of his time, using faceted planes and
negative space
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to create a new way of looking at the human figure, showing a number of views of the subject simultaneously. He is known for introducing sculptural voids, and for his inventive mixing of genres throughout his career: devising 'sculpto-paintings', and later experimenting with materials such as clear
acrylic
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and
terra cotta
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. Inspired by the works of Picasso and Braque, he is also credited for introducing the collage to wider audiences with his ''Medrano'' series.
The sculptor
Ann Weaver Norton apprenticed with Archipenko for a number of years.
Public collections
Among the public collections holding works by Alexander Archipenko are:
* The
Addison Gallery of American Art
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History
Directors of the gallery include Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. (1940– ...
(Andover, Massachusetts)
* The
Art Institute of Chicago
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* The
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
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(Northwestern University, Illinois)
* Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Utah)
* Chi-Mei Museum (Taiwan)
* The
Delaware Art Museum
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(Wilmington, Delaware)
* The Denver Art Museum (Colorado)
* The
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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* The
Guggenheim Museum
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Museums in this group include:
Locations
Americas
* The Solomon R. Guggenhei ...
(New York City)
* The
Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...
(Saint Petersburg)
* The
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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(Washington D.C.)
* The
Honolulu Museum of Art
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*
Indiana University Art Museum
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(Bloomington)
* The
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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* The Maier Museum of Art (Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia)
* The
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art.
Location and Visit
Located on the lakefront of Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee Art Museum is one of the largest art museu ...
* The
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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(Minneapolis)
* The
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Alabama)
* The
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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* The
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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* The
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
(New York City)
* The
National Museum of Serbia
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(Belgrade, Serbia)
* The
Nasher Sculpture Center
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(Dallas, Texas)
* The
National Gallery of Art
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(Washington D.C.)
*
National Museum Cardiff
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* The
North Carolina Museum of Art
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* The
Norton Simon Museum
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The Norton Sim ...
(Pasadena, California)
* The
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
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(Venice)
* The
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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(Pennsylvania)
* The
Phillips Collection
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(Washington D.C.)
* The Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon)
* The
Portland Museum of Art
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Hi ...
(Maine)
*
Salisbury House (Des Moines, Iowa)
* The San Antonio Art League Museum (Texas)
* The
San Diego Museum of Art
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(California)
* The
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
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History
Sheldon Art Association
In 1888, The Sheldon Art Assoc ...
(Lincoln, Nebraska)
* The
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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(Washington D.C.)
*
Städel
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Museum (Frankfurt)
*
Tate Modern
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(London)
* The
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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(Israel)
* The
Ukrainian Museum
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(New York City)
* Von der Heydt-Museum (Wuppertal, Germany)
*
Walker Art Center
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(Minnesota)
* The Cleveland Cultural Gardens (Ukrainian Garden) in Rockefeller Park (Ohio)
*
Fundación D.O.P. (Caracas)
*
Museum de Fundatie
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(
Zwolle
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, Netherlands)
Archipenko's tall
cubist
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statue of
King Solomon
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
is installed at the
University of Pennsylvania
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campus. Archipenko began work on a smaller prototype of the statue in 1964, but died before the work was finished, leaving his wife to oversee its completion. The full-sized statue was completed in 1968 and was donated to the university in 1985.
Gallery
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1910, Le baiser (The Kiss). Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921..jpg, ''Le baiser (The Kiss)'', 1910
File:Alexander Archipenko, Portrait de Mme Kameneff, Folkwang Museum, Hagen. Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Portrait de Mme Kameneff''
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1910-11, Venus.jpg, ''Venus'', 1910–11
File:Alexander Archipenko, L'Héros (The Hero). Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''L'Héros (The Hero)'', ca.1912
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912, Femme Marchante (Woman Walking). Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Femme Marchant (Woman Walking)'', 1912
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912, Dancers, Der Tanz, 24 in. original plaster.jpg, ''Dancers (Der Tanz)'', 1912, original plaster, 24 in. This first version of ''Dancers'' was illustrated on the front cover of ''The Sketch'', 29 October 1913, London
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912-13, Zwei Körper (Two Bodies).jpg, ''Zwei Körper (Two Bodies)'', 1912–13
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912-13, Roter Tanz (Danse rouge, Blue Dancer).jpg, ''Roter Tanz (Danse rouge, Blue Dancer)'', 1912–13
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1913, Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with a Fan), 108 x 61.5 x 13.5 cm, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with a Fan)'', 1913, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1913, Pierrot-carrousel, painted plaster, 61 × 48.6 × 34 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Pierrot-carrousel'', 1913, painted plaster, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...
, New York
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1914, Danseuse du Médrano (Médrano II), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Danseuse du Médrano (Médrano II)'', 1914, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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, New York
File:Alexander Archipenko, Flat Torso, 1914.jpg, ''Flat Torso'', 1914
File:Alexander Archipenko, Sculpto-peinture.jpg, ''Sculpto-peinture''
File:Alexander Archipenko, c.1920, Femme assise (Composition), 31.1 x 23.2 cm, gouache on paper.jpg, Alexander Archipenko, c.1920, ''Femme assise'' (''Composition''), 31.1 x 23.2 cm, gouache on paper
File:Alexander Archipenko, 1919, Femmes - Vases (Women - Vases). Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Femmes - Vases (Women - Vases)'', 1919
File:Alexander archipenko.JPG, ''Woman combing her hair'', 1914, bronze, Israel Museum
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File:Gateway Sculptures by Alexander Archipenko 1950.jpg, ''Gateway Sculptures'', 1950, painted steel, University of Missouri–Kansas City
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File:Alexander Archipenko Gravesite 2009.JPG, The gravesite of Alexander Archipenko in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
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File:Queen of Sheba, Alexander Archipenko, 1961.jpg, alt=, ''Queen of Sheba'', 1961, in the Lynden Sculpture Garden Lynden Sculpture Garden (formerly the Bradley Sculpture Garden) is a 40-acre outdoor sculpture park located at 2145 West Brown Deer Road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Milwaukee County. Formerly the estate of Harry Lynde Bradley and Margaret (Peg ) Bla ...
Further reading
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Notes
External links
The Archipenko Foundation*
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"Refashioning the Figure – The Sketchbooks of Archipenko c.1920", by Marek Bartelik (Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture No. 41) at archipenko.org. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
Archipenko. Catalogue of Exhibition and Description of Archipentura. New York, The Anderson Galleries, 1928.Katharine Kuh. Alexander Archipenko. A Memorial Exhibition 1967-1969. The UCLA Art Galleries, 1969
Nagy Ildiko, ''Archipenko Album'', 1980*
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1964 deaths
Artists from Kyiv
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Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
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