Konstantin melnikov biography of michaels
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Konstantin Melnikov () is unquestionably one of the outstanding architects of the 20th century in spite of the fact that he fell silent early, leaving behind only limited work that was insufficiently publicized, and restricted almost exclusively to Moscow, the city of his birth in which he spent nearly his entire life and which did not appreciate him. He was raised in humble circumstances, but enjoyed an excellent education. Beginning in the mids, after the turmoil that followed the war, revolution and civil war, his career soared at almost meteoric speed as he took the lead in the young Soviet architecture movement with completely autonomous, highly artistic buildings that were free from dogmatism of any kind. Even more rapid than his rise to fame was his downfall: Treated with general hostility, he was unable to defend himself against the accusation of formalism when Stalin put an end to architectural ventures and experiments around the mids. He was expelled from the architects' association and was banned from practicing as an architect for the remaining four decades of his life. In the late s, at the peak of his career, he had the opportunity to build a house for himself and his family in Moscow, in which he was then able to live until the end of his life. This house,
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Konstantin Melnikov: Architect
In January , on a morning of Stygian gloom, I called on Konstantin Melnikov, the architect, at his house on Krivoarbatsky Lane in Moscow. I had already been in Moscow a couple of weeks trying to ferret out survivors from the heady days of the leftist art movement of the early twenties. I had, for example, a wild-goose chase in search of an old gentleman, once a friend of Tatlin&#;s, who owned a wing-strut of the glider Letatlin. I even tried to find the man who, as a homeless student of the Vkhutemas School, had installed himself and his bedding inside the constructivist street monument The Red Wedge Invades the White Square.
One evening, I went to supper with Vavara Rodchenko, the artist&#;s daughter, in a studio flat that had also been the office of the magazine LEF. The shade of Mayakovsky, one of its editors, seemed to linger in the room. The bentwood chair you sat on was Mayakovsky&#;s chair, the plate you ate off was his plate, and the fruit compotier was a present brought from Paris by a man who called himself &#;the cloud in pants&#;. On the walls there hung a selection of Rodchenko&#;s paintings – less fine, of course, and less mystical than those of Malevich, but making up for that with their dazzling display of vigour. In his d