Ivan
Alexeyevich KUDRIASHOV
Born
1896, Kaluga - died 1972, Moscow.
Painter.
Automobile. 1918. Design
sketch for the celebration of the first anniversary of October Revolution,
in Moscow.
Pencil and watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard, 124.8x34.6 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Design sketch painting of foyer for First Soviet Theatre in
Orenburg. 1920.
Pencil, watercolor, ink and wood on paper, 21.2x53.4 cm. The Costaki
collection, Germany.
Design sketch painting of foyer for First Soviet Theatre in
Orenburg. 1920.
Pencil, watercolor, ink and wood on paper, 13.3x39 cm. The Costaki
collection, Germany.
Suprematist Composition. 1923.
Pencil on paper, 24.7x28.4 cm. Nukus Art Museum, Kara-Kalpakian
Autonomy Republic, Kazakhstan.
Motion in Cosmos. 1924.
Watercolor on paper, 16.5x24.3 cm. Private collection, Germany.
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Foundation Area. 1925.
Watercolor on paper, 43.2x31.8 cm. Nukus Art Museum, Kara-Kalpakian
Autonomy Republic, Kazakhstan.
Flying Trajectory of Earth About the Sun.
1926.
Oil on canvas, 68.5x75.5 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Legs of Seated Man. 1928.
Pencil on paper, 33.3x25.5 cm. Nukus Art Museum, Kara-Kalpakian
Autonomy Republic, Kazakhstan.
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Kudriashov has studied at the MUZhVZ (Moscow High School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) in 1912-1917, at the SVOMAS (the State Free Art Workshops) in Moscow (1918-1919) under Kazimir Malevich. There he was acquainted with I.Kliun, N.Pevsner and N.Gabo.
Kudriashov has designed projects for agit-propagandist emblems (1918), they were mounted on cars for anniversary celebrations of October Revolution.
In 1919 he has organized district Free Art Workshops in Orenburg. The artist has opened a branch of the UNOVIS group in Orenburg (1920). He has made sketches of the wall-paintings for Orenburg Theatre.
In 1921 Kudriashov has gone to Smolensk, where he met Katarzhina Kobro and Vladislav Strzheminsky.
!n 1937 Kudriashov began to teach at the Institute of Artists Qualifications Raising.
The artist was a member of the UNOVIS group, MTKh (Moscow Artist’s Association), was the organizer of OST (Society of Easel-Artists, 1925), IZOBRIGADE (Art Team, 1931).
He has taken part in exhibitions: First Russian Art Exhibition (Berlin, Van Dimen Gallery, 1922); First State Itinerant Exhibition of pictures (1925, Moscow, Saratov, Stalingrad and Nizhny Novgorod); 1-th, 2-th and 4-th OST Exhibitions (1925, 1926, 1928).
From 1928 the painter's works were not exhibited in the USSR.