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- Title
Das Schwarze Quadrat und die jüdische Kunst: Chagall, Lisickij und Malevič in Vitebsk.
- Authors
Koller, Sabine
- Abstract
Abstract: Between 1917 and 1922, Vitebsk became a center of Jewish-Russian avantgarde painting. Thanks to Marc Chagall, who directed the Vitebsk Art School, leading avant-garde figures moved to Vitebsk, among them El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich. This paper explores the influence of Malevich's Suprematism on Lissitzky and Chagall. For a period of time, both artists were attracted to Suprematism. Using irony, Chagall subverted it, while Lissitzky faithfully followed Malevich's worldview and artistic credo. Like many other Jewish students at Chagall's Art School, Lissitzky felt extremely attracted to the messianic implications of Malevich and his art. Suprematism was perceived as an artistic system where Jewish thinking and Malevich's redemptory vision merged. Nevertheless, in the mid-1920s Lissitzky abandoned his Jewishness and Suprematist fervor in favor of the Soviet utopia. After his Vitebsk commitment to the Socialist cause, Chagall, repelled by the suprematist doctrine, returned to Jewish themes and Yiddish texts.
- Subjects
VITSEBSK (Belarus); SOVIET Union; CHAGALL, Marc, 1887-1985; LISSITZKY, El, 1890-1941; MALEVICH, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935; 20TH century Russian painting; SUPREMATISM (Art movement); JEWISH painters; JEWISH artists; JEWS; JEWISH art &; symbolism; ART schools; JEWISH history; HISTORY
- Publication
Aschkenas: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden, 2014, Vol 24, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1016-4987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/asch-2014-0012