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Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold ( Russian: Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд, romanized : Vsévolod Èmíl'evič Mejerchól'd; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold; 9 February [ O.S. 28 January] 1874 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer of German descent. His ...
Vsevolod Yemilyevich Meyerhold (born Jan. 28 [Feb. 9, New Style], 1874, Penza, Russia—died Feb. 2, 1940, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor whose provocative experiments in nonrealistic theatre made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre.
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Photo reproduced by kind permission of Robert Leach. Director and practitioner Vsevolod Meyerhold was born in Penza, Russia in 1874 and died in 1940 in Moscow, one of the many thousands of artists to fall victim to Stalin's death purges. He is best known for the landmark production of Gogol's Government Inspector (1926) and for his devising of ...
Jun 14, 2019 · Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold (Russian: Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд, romanized: Vsévolod Èmíl'evič Mejerkhól'd; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold; 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1874 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.
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Dec 20, 2016 · The work of the great theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold was experimental and avant-garde. He was opposed to the restrictive dogma of Socialist Realism and made a speech saying so. Tortured by the NKVD, Meyerhold wrote wrenching pleas for clemency from his cell in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison.
Constructivism was a post-World War I development of Russian Futurism, and particularly of the 'counter reliefs' of Vladimir Tatlin, which had been exhibited in 1915. The term itself was invented by the sculptors Antoine Pevsner and Naum Gabo, who developed an industrial, angular style of work, while its geometric abstraction owed something to ...
Mar 9, 2016 · Even the figurative and representational painting of the time was rife with innovation, as artists rejected the staid academicism of naturalistic painting, and experimented with elements of space and form. Boris Grigoriev, Portrait of the Theater Director Vsevolod Meyerhold, 1916, oil on canvas. Saint Petersburg, State Russian Museum.
