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Vadym Meller

Vadym Meller or Vadim Meller, (1884–1962) was a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
-Russian

Russians

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Soviet painter

Painting

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, avant-garde

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artist

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(Cubist, Constructivist

Constructivism (art)

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), theatrical designer

Designer

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, book

Book

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illustrator

Illustrator

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and architect

Architect

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. The first artist who was awarded a gold medal in Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes
Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes

File:Tour Eiffel publicit? Citro?n 1925.jpgThe Exposition Internationale des Arts D?coratifs et Industriels Modernes was a World's fair held in Paris, France from April to October 1925....
(Art Deco
Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
) in Paris

Paris

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1925.

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Vadim Meller was born in Saint-Petersburg.

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Vadym Meller or Vadim Meller, (1884–1962) was a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Russians

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, avant-garde

Avant-garde

Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
(Cubist, Constructivist

Constructivism (art)

Designer

Book

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side....
illustrator

Illustrator

An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text....
and architect

Architect

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
1925.

Biography

Vadim Meller was born in Saint-Petersburg. He was the second son of a top official in the Ministry of Justice in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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. His father George Meller was a noble-born Swede

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, his mother Helena Caruso, half-Italian

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-half-Greek

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, was also from a noble family.

From 1903 to 1908 he was the student of Kiev University

Kiev University

Kiev University or officially the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv is the university located in Kiev , the capital of Ukraine....
.

In 1905 Vadim Meller visited Geneva

Geneva

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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where he was taking art lessons in private school of Franz Roubaud

Franz Roubaud

Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud was a Russian painter who created some of the largest and best known panoramic paintings.Roubaud was born on 15 June 1856 in Odessa and attended an art school there....
.

In 1908 with recommendation of Roubaud he continued his education in private art school of Drawing and Painting of Heinrich Knirr in Munich

Munich

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, Germany

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. There Vadim Meller met his student Paul Klee

Paul Klee

Paul Klee was a Switzerland Painting of Germany nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by many different art trends, including expressionism, cubism, and surrealism....
who introduced him to Der Blaue Reiter

Der Blaue Reiter

Der Blaue Reiter was a group of artists from the Neue K?nstlervereinigung M?nchen in Munich, Germany. Der Blaue Reiter was a German movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Br?cke which was founded the previous decade in 1905....
group.

After graduating from the Kiev University

Kiev University

Kiev University or officially the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv is the university located in Kiev , the capital of Ukraine....
with a degree in law, he acquired artistic education in the Munich

Munich

Der Blaue Reiter

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian Painting, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract art works....
with whom he became friends.

Vadim Meller started to exhibit his works after he had moved to Paris

Paris

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, where he joined the Société des Artistes Indépendants

Société des Artistes Indépendants

The Soci?t? des Artistes Ind?pendants formed in Paris in summer 1884 choosing the device "No jury nor awards" . Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac were among its founders....
. Vadim Meller was also a student of Antoine Bourdelle

Antoine Bourdelle

Antoine Bourdelle, originally ?mile Antoine Bourdelle, was a French sculpture and teacher....
.

In 1912-1914 together with Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich , was a Painting and art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the Avant-garde Suprematist movement....
, Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay was a Jews-France artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes....
, Alexander Archipenko

Alexander Archipenko

Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainians avant-garde artist, sculptor and graphic artist....
, Aleksandra Ekster

Aleksandra Ekster

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster was a Russian-Ukraine Painting , designer, and one of the founders of Art Deco....
he participated in exhibitions: Salon des Indépendants, Spring Salon, and Salon D' Automne alongside Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego Jos? Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mar?a de los Remedios Cipriano de la Sant?sima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was a Spanish people Painting, drawing, and Sculpture....
, Georges Braque

Georges Braque

Georges Braque was a major 20th century French Painting and sculpture who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as cubism....
and André Derain

André Derain

Andr? Derain was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse....
.

After returning to Kiev

Kiev

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in 1917, he worked at easel

Easel

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and monumental

Monumental

Monumental, the adjective form of the noun, monument, may refer to:...
painting, graphic design

Graphic design

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, and costume design

Costume design

File:Cateau Cambr?sis012.jpgCostume design is the fabrication of apparel for the overall appearance of a character or performer. This usually involves researching, designing and building the actual items from conception....
. His transition to scenography

Scenography

Scenography is the practice of making theatre including sets, costumes and texts from a theoretical and practical point of view. Scenographers work from the premise of a space that is constructed, updated, transformed and filled....
as the main field of artistic activity took place in the first post-revolutionary years.

From 1918 -1921 , he worked with scenographer

Scenographer

A scenographer develops the appearance of a stage design, a TV or movie set, a gaming environment, a trade fair exhibition design or a museum experience exhibition design....
and dancer Bronislava Nijinska

Bronislava Nijinska

File:Bronislava Nijinska.jpgBronislava Nijinska was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Polish descent,Nijinska was born in Minsk, the third child of the Polish dancers Tomasz and Eleonora Bereda Nizynsky....
(Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent. Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations....
's sister) in her ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
studio.

In 1922 Les Kurbas

Les Kurbas

Les Kurbas is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century. He formed together with Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yevgeny Vakhtangov and several other directors the Soviet theater avantgarde in the 1920s and 30s....
invited Vadim Meller to the recently founded Berezil theater.

In 1925 Vadim Meller together with Sonia Terk, Alexandra Exter, Nathan Altman

Nathan Altman

File:Akhmatova 1914.jpgNathan Isaevich Altman was a Russian avant-garde artist, Cubist Painting, stage designer and book illustrator....
participated in Exposition Internationale des Modernes
Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes

File:Tour Eiffel publicit? Citro?n 1925.jpgThe Exposition Internationale des Arts D?coratifs et Industriels Modernes was a World's fair held in Paris, France from April to October 1925....
( Art Deco ) in Paris

Paris

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. There Vadim Meller was awarded a gold medal for his scenic design

Scenic design

File:Robert Edmond Jones.jpgScenic design is the creation of Theatre, as well as film or television theatrical scenery. Scenic designers have traditionally come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but nowadays, generally speaking, they are trained professionals, often with Master of Fine Arts degrees in theatre arts....
of the Berezil' theater.

In 1925 Vadim Meller participated in the International Theater Exposition in New York

New York

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.

Vadim Meller became the leader of Constructivism

Constructivism (art)

Design

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. He worked in the National theater as a chief artist till 1945.

From 1925 he also taught at the Kiev Art Academy (KKHI) together with Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin worked as a painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became the most important artist in the Constructivism movement....
and Alexander Bogomazov

Alexander Bogomazov

Alexander or Oleksandr Bogomazov was Ukraine Painting, known artist and modern art theory of Russian avant-garde . In 1914 Alexander wrote his treatise The Art of Painting and the Elements....
. In the same year Vadim Meller became the member of the union of artists Association of the Revolutionary Masters of Ukraine together with David Burliuk

David Burliuk

David Davidovich Burliuk was a Ukrainians avant-garde artist , book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism....
( co-founder), Alexander Bogomazov

Alexander Bogomazov

Vasiliy Yermilov

Vasiliy Yermilov was a Ukrainians-Russian Painting, avant-garde artist , and designer....
, Victor Palmov

Victor Palmov

Victor Palmov was a Russians-Ukraine painter, avant-garde artist from the David Burliuk circle....
and Khvostenko-Khvostov.

1929 - together with Jozeph Shpinel working as an art director for the movie Arsenal (director Alexander Dovzhenko).

Meller worked as an acting director of the Monumental Painting and Sculpture Institute of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

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(1946–1948), a chief artist of the Kiev Music Comedy Theater (1948 - 1953) and a chief artist of the Iv. Franko Kiev Academic Theater (1953–1959).

He was married to Nina Genke

Nina Genke-Meller

Nina Genke or Nina Genke-Meller, or Nina Henke-Meller, was a Ukraine-Russian avant-garde artist, , designer, graphic artist and scenographer....
.

Vadim Meller died in Kiev.