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Russian-French painter

Léopold Frédéric Léopoldowitsch Survage (French pronunciation:[leɔpɔl(d)syʁvaʒ]; 31 July – 31 October ) was a Russian-French painter of Finnish origin. Trained in Moscow, he identified with the Russian avant-garde before moving to Paris, where he shared a studio with Amedeo Modigliani and experimented with abstract films.

He also gained commissions for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Leopold survage biography book Trained in Moscow, he identified with the Russian avant-garde before moving to Paris, where he shared a studio with Amedeo Modigliani and experimented with abstract films. He also gained commissions for Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes. Survage was French, [ 1 ] of Russian- Danish - Finnish descent, born in Lappeenranta , Finland with selected references indicating a birthplace of Moscow, Russia. At a young age, Survage was directed to enter the piano factory operated by his Finnish father. He learned to play the piano, then completed a commercial diploma in

Nationality

Survage was French,^[1] of Russian-Danish-Finnish descent, born in Lappeenranta, Finland (with selected references indicating a birthplace of Moscow, Russia). Variant names included Léopold Sturzwage, Leopold Sturwage, Leopoldij Sturzwasgh and Leopoldij Lvovich Sturzwage.

Biography

At a young age, Survage was directed to enter the piano factory operated by his Finnish father. He learned to play the piano, then completed a commercial diploma in After a severe illness at the age of 22, Survage rethought his career and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Introduced to the modern movement through the collections of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, he cast his lot with the Russian avant-garde and, by , was loosely affiliated with the circle of the magazine Zolotoye runo (Golden fleece—see also Maximilian Voloshin). He met Alexander Archipenko, exhibiting with him in the company of David Burlyuk, Vladimir Burlyuk, Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova.

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At the age of twenty two, in , he attended the Moscow School of Fine Arts. He was strongly influenced at the time by the Russian avant-garde and exhibited with Alexander Archipenko, in the company of David Burlyuk, Vladimir Burlyuk, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova in He first showed his work in Paris in at the Salon d'Automne. In the years preceding the First World War, Survage worked on an ambitious project producing coloured abstract compositions entitled Coloured Rhythm , which he planned to animate on film to evoke different emotions and sensations in the viewer. He visualised these abstract images flowing together to form "symphonies in colour" but due to the intervention of the First World War this project did not come to fruition.

With Hélène Moniuschko, later his wife, he travelled to Western Europe, visiting Paris in July The couple eventually settled in Paris where Survage worked as a piano tuner and briefly attended the short-lived school run by Henri Matisse. He exhibited with the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow in and first showed his work in France—at the urging of Archipenko—in the Salon d'Automne of ^[2]

In , Survage produced abstract compositions using color and movement to evoke a type of musical sensation.

Entitled Rythmes colorés, he planned to animate these illustrations by means of film to form "symphonies en couleur". He saw these abstract images as flowing together, but he exhibited the ink wash drawings separately at the Salon d'Automne in and Salon des Indépendants in Articles on these works were published by Guillaume Apollinaire (Paris-J., July ) and Survage himself (Soirées Paris, July–August ).

In June , in order to develop his idea, Survage unsuccessfully applied for a patent to the Gaumont Film Company. Had he been able to raise the funds, he would have preceded Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter as the first to develop abstract films.^[2][3]

Beginning in , Survage shared a studio—and a penchant for alcoholic excesses—with Amedeo Modigliani in Paris.

Survage later moved to Nice and, over the next eight years, produced highly structured oils and works on paper linked together by a series of leitmotifs, repeating groups of symbolic elements—man, sea, building, flower, window, curtain, bird—as if they were protagonists in a series of moving images.

Leopold survage biography He was born in the same land as his paternal grandfather, who had founded a piano manufacturing business upon his arrival in the country, which was passed down from father to son. At a very early age, the young Survage showed a growing interest and a definite aptitude for drawing. His father firmly dissuaded him from taking the path of art. In the early 's, against his father's advice, which left him destitute, he enrolled in the Moscow School of Fine Arts. Life became hard for the apprentice artist who managed, with the help of a few friends, to find enough to live on.

The influence may have been Marc Chagall's, an artist well known for his insertions of floating couples, cows, roosters, and sundry Jewish iconography. By , Survage had begun to move away from Cubism in favour of the neo-classical form. He was perhaps influenced by commissions for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, beginning with sets and costumes for Igor Stravinsky's opera buffaMavra at the Paris Opéra in Although mainly a painter, he also produced stage, tapestry, and textile designs during this period (notably for the house of Chanel in ).

Toward the end of the s, as a result of his contact with André Masson, Survage became increasingly charmed by symbols and mysticism. The curvilinear forms that had previously dominated his compositions came, once again, under the control of geometric structure.^[2]

On 12 March Survage was named Officer of the Légion d'Honneur.^[4] He died on 31 October in Paris.^[2]

Selected exhibitions

• Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Knoedler Gallery, New York
• Galerie de L'Effort Moderne, Paris
• Salon des Indépendants, Paris
• Salon d'Automne, Paris

Selected collections

• Musée national d'art moderne Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem
• Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon
• Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva
• Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• National Museum of Arts, Moscow
• National Museum, Athens

Literature

• Artistes russes de l'École de Paris [exhibition catalogue].

  Geneva: Musée d'art moderne,

• Léopold Survage [exhibition catalogue].
  Leopold survage biography wikipedia After leaving school, he worked with his father, then became an apprentice in a piano company in During a visit to Sergei Shchukin's private collection, he was moved to discover works by Manet, Gauguin, Matisse and the Impressionists: a revelation. He quickly painted his first works and took part in various exhibitions in Moscow alongside his friends Sudeikin and Sapunov. His father ruined, Survage liquidated his business and moved to Paris with the little money he had left at the beginning of July Rhythm is the fundamental element of his work: "The flat surface is the domain on which images evolve.

  Lyon: Musée des beaux-arts,

• Léopold Survage: aquarelles, peintures, dessins [retrospective exhibition]. Nice: Direction des musées de Nice,
• Les lumières de Léopold Survage: oeuvres, [exhibition catalogue]. Aix-en-Provence: Galerie d'art du Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône,
• Putnam, Samuel.

  The Glistening Bridge: Léopold Survage and the Spatial Problem in Painting. New York: Covici-Friede, (online)

• Seyrès, Hélène (ed.). Écrits sur la peinture: Léopold Survage.

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Paris: L'Archipel,

• Warnod, Jeanine. Survage. Brussels: A. de Rache,

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