Ilya Grigorievich
CHASHNIK
Born 1902,
Ļucin, Latvia
-
Died 1928, Leningrad.
Painter, graphic artist and designer.
Work:
Platform-design for the Red
Square in Smolensk.
1920.
Pencil and Indian ink on paper,
57.3x37.6 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Red Quadrate
(UNOVIS).
1921.
Watercolor and Indian ink
on paper, 21.4x19.4
cm.
The Gallery Leonard Hutton, New York.
Suprematism
design.
1921.
Gouache on paper, 5.5x22.5 cm.
Private collection, Germany.
Suprematism
design.
1921.
Indian ink and pencil on
cardboard, 5.8x22.7 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Suprematism
design.
1921.
Indian ink and pencil on
cardboard, 8x22.7 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Color
Motion. 1921-1922.
Watercolor on paper, 50.5x15 cm
each. Private collection, Germany.
Suprematism Relief. 1922.
16.5x13 cm. Private
collection.
Suprematism Relief. 1922.
11.3x18.5 cm. Private
collection.
Vertical axis in motion.
1922-1923.
Watercolor and Indian ink on
paper, 6.5x9.6; 13.3x13.6
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Suprematism Relief.
1922-1923.
Oil on wood. 118x118x7 cm.
Private collection.
Suprematism
Composition.
1922-1924.
Collage on cardboard.
35x26.3 cm. Stolz Gallery, Cologne.
Suprematism. Ex-libris
designs.
1923.
Indian ink and watercolor on
paper, 13.4x11.2; 8x6.5 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Design for
porcelain.
1923.
Gouache and Indian ink on paper.
Diameter 8.2 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Fabric design.
1920s.
Watercolor and Indian ink
on paper, 18.7x35.6
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Fabric design.
1920s.
Watercolor and Indian ink
on paper, 22.8x35.3
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Fabric design.
1920s.
Watercolor and Indian ink
on paper, 32.7x24.4
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Suprematism
composition. Fabric design.
1920s.
Gouache on paper, 14.8x14
cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Cup painting design.
Mid
1920s.
Watercolor and pencil on
paper, 6.5x9.6; 13.3x13.6
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Two sketches for cup painting design.
Mid
1920s.
Watercolor, color ink and pencil on
paper, 16.4x15.2; 26.8x17.7
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Design for
powder-case.
Mid
1920s.
Indian and color Ink and
pencil on paper, 7.6x7.6; 8.7x12.2
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Mustard Pot
with Suprematism Design.
1920s.
Ht. 11.5 cm. The Lomonossov
Porcelain Fabric Museum, St.Petersburg.
Goblet with
Suprematist Design.
1920s.
The Lomonossov Porcelain Fabric
Museum, St.Petersburg.
Plate with
the Black Suprematism Design.
1920s.
The Lomonossov Porcelain Fabric
Museum, St.Petersburg.
Cigarette case
design. 1920s.
Indian ink, silver paint on
paper, 49.5x36.2 cm. The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Two
Plates. Suprematism.
1920s.
The Lomonossov Porcelain
Fabric Museum, St.Petersburg.
Suprematism
Composition. 1920s.
Watercolor, pencil on paper,
13.5x10.7 cm. Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Sketch for applied art.
1920s.
Color ink on paper,
47.3x32.9
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Sketch for applied art.
1920s.
Color ink on paper,
32.9x47.3
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Suprematism Relief.
Second half of 1920s. Reconstruction 1975-78, made by the
artist's son, Ilya Chashnik Junior.
Wooden play, oil, paper. 53.5x60
cm. Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Suprematism
Composition. Second half of 1920s. Reconstruction 1970s, made by the
artist's son, Ilya Chashnik Junior.
Gouache on paper, 30.4x22.3 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Suprematism.
1921-1923.
Oil on canvas, 81.5x87 cm.
Ernst Schwitters collection, Norway.
Suprematism
Cross. 1922-1923.
Indian ink on cardboard, 33x33
cm. Private collection, Germany.
Suprematism.
1922-1923.
Oil on canvas, 85x57 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Suprematism.
1922-1923.
Watercolor on paper, 18.5x22.8
cm. Private collection, Germany.
Suprematism
Collage.
1922-1923.
Collage, gouache on paper,
44.8x27.9 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Suprematism
Composition. 1923.
Gouache on paper, 30.4x22.3 cm.
Private collection, Germany.
Suprematism
Cross. 1923.
Gouache on paper, 30.4x22.3 cm.
Private collection, Germany.
Design for
porcelain.
1923.
Watercolor on paper, 33.2x33.4
cm. Collection Kostaki, Athens.
Plate
with Suprematism Design.
1923.
The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Poster
design. Sketch. 1923-1924.
Watercolor and Indian ink on
paper, 23.6x16.4 cm. The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Suprematism.
1923-1924.
Colored wood and glass, 82.8x62.3
cm. Collection Thissen-Bornemisza, Lugano.
Design for
Advertisement Booth (Stand). 1923-1924.
Gouache on paper. 24x16.5
cm. Private collection, Germany.
Plate
"Lenin".
1924. (V.I.Lenin died in 1924)
The Central Museum of
V.I.Lenin, Moscow.
Suprematism
cover design for the book
"Lenin" by M.Gorky.
1924.
Gouache, Indian ink,
cardboard, 29.4x22.8 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Color Lines in Vertical
Motion.
1923-1925.
Watercolor on paper,
35.5x25.5
cm.
The Gallery Leonard Hutton, New York.
Seventh
Dimension. Suprematism Relief with Stripes.
1925.
Colored wood, paper,
cardboard, glass. 26x22.5x1.4
cm.
The Gallery Leonard Hutton, New York.
Cosmos.
Red Circle on Black Plane.
1925.
Indian ink and watercolor
on paper, 37.2x32.8
cm.
Private collection, USA.
Suprematism
cover for the journal "Kino" ("Cinema").
Sketch.
1925.
Collage, 19x18.5 cm. Private
collection, Germany.
Suprematism
design for the journal "Kino" ("Cinema"). Sketch.
1925.
Collage, 10.8x16.5; 7.5x15.5;
10.8x16.5 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Architecton.
1924-1926.
Pencil on paper, 17.7x22 cm.
Private collection, Germany.
Architecton.
1925-1926.
Pencil on paper, 26x17.7 cm.
Private collection, Germany.
Architecton.
1925-1926.
Pencil on paper, 22x17.7 cm.
Private collection, Germany.
Architecton.
1925-1926.
Pencil on paper, 17.7x26 cm.
Private collection, Germany.
Architecton.
1925-1926.
Pencil on paper, 17.6x22 cm.
Private collection, Germany.
Architecton.
1926.
Plaster,
16.4x18.7x2.6
cm.
Rothschild Artistic Fund, Baltimore, USA.
Suprematism
Relief N11.
1926.
Colored wood and glass, 82.8x62.3
cm. Collection Thissen-Bornemisza, Lugano.
Circles in
the Suprematism Cross.
1926.
Watercolors, Indian ink,
paper on cardboard, 29.8x20.9
cm.
The Gallery Leonard Hutton, New York.
Suprematism
Architecton on Shape of Cross.
1926.
Pencil on paper, 22x17.5
cm.
The Gallery Leonard Hutton, New York.
Fabric design.
1925-1927.
Watercolor on paper,
46,8x34.3
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Border design.
1925-1927.
Indian ink on paper,
13x53.2
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Fabric design.
1925-1927.
Watercolor on paper,
32.5x47
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Fabric design.
1925-1927.
Watercolor on paper,
46,8x34.2
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Sketch for
applied art.
1925-1927.
Watercolor and Indian ink
on paper, 33.2x26.5
cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Poster
design. 1927-1928.
Collage and Indian ink on paper,
49.5x36.2 cm. Private collection, Germany.
May 1st. Poster
design. 1927-1928.
Collage and watercolor on paper,
43.5x30.5 cm. Private collection, Germany.
Ilya Chashnik was one of the most talented and favourite pupils of Kazimir Malevich. His life was very short, but he has managed to accomplish a lot in the art of suprematism and constructivism.
Ilya Chashnik was born in 1902 in
Ļucin, Latvia, the youngest of 8
children in a very poor family. Soon afterwards, the family has moved to
Vitebsk. From early on, Ilya has loved drawing. At 11 he was forced to
leave school, and entered an optics-mechanics workshop, where he worked
for 10-11 hours a day. But despite the hard work, his craving for art
was so strong, that soon he has began drawing again by night. By 1915,
his elder brothers and sisters all left home to work, and Ilya could
finally return to school, from which he graduated in 1919. He has taken
drawing lessons from Yu. Pen, a Vitebsk painter.
In 1920,
Chashnik has studied briefly at VHUTEMAS, in Moscow. He was taken
with Chagall's art, and has trnsferred to Vitebsk, in order to study
with him. Then he studied with Malevitch, and graduated from the Vitebsk
Practical Art Institute in 1922.
Ilya Chashnik
was a member of the UNOVIS Group.
In 1921-22 he has participated in UNOVIS exhibitions in
Moscow and in Vitebsk; the exhibition of artists of various movements in
Petrograd (1923); the international exhibition of decorative art in
Paris (1925); an exhibition in Monso-Milan in 1927 (honorary ?).
In 1922, the artist has followed Malevitch and moved to Petrograd, to
join the scientific department of INHUK (the Institute of art
Culture), where he has received diploma and a title of free artist
and high teacher of technical schools.
Chashnik has worked as an artist at the Petrograd porcelain factory
(1922-24); in scientific function at the Decorative Institute (1925). He
was research leader on decorative art forms in the porcelain field, and
on advertising poster and architecture. He was a member of the Committee
of artistic industry at the State Institute of Art History (1926-27).
From 1927, he has headed a workshop ISORAM (decorative art of the
working youth).