Anna Kogan
Anna Aleksandrovna Kogan (1902–1974) was a Soviet artist.[1] She was a modernist who worked in several media, including painting, textiles, ceramics, glass and sculpture.[2]
Biography
[edit]Kogan was born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire in 1902.
From 1919 to 1922 Kogan studied at the Higher Art School of Vitebsk under Kazimir Malevich,[3] where she was one of his favourite students.[2] She was part of the group UNOVIS,[4] which focused on suprematist art and produced projects and publications which influenced the avant-garde in Russia.[5] In 1924 she joined the architectural deartment of the Institute of Artistic Culture, Leningrad.[2]
Kogan died in Leningrad in 1974.[3]
In 2009, Artnews reported that she was an "enigma to art historians", due to a lack of biographical history and the fact that none of her works appeared in Russian Art Museums.[6]
Her work is included in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco[7] and the Seattle Art Museum.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Rakitin, Vasily. (2013) "Anna Kagan" in Rakitin, Vasily and Sarabianov, Andrei eds. Encyclopedia of the Russian Avant-Garde, Volume 1 (in Russian). Moscow: RA. p. 400.
- ^ a b c Gimpelevich, Zina (2023-02-06). Biełarusian Fine Art: Time and Time Again: Origin, History, Discourse, and Biographies. FriesenPress. pp. 84–85. ISBN 978-1-0391-5878-8.
- ^ a b "Ontdek graficus, ontwerper, schilder Anna Aleksandrovna Kagan". rkd.nl.
- ^ Shatskikh, Aleksandra Semenovna (2007-01-01). Vitebsk: The Life of Art. Yale University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-300-10108-9.
- ^ "Black Square: In the Circle of Malevich and UNOVIS Group". Howard Schickler Fine Art. Archived from the original on 11 March 2005. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ Konstantin, Akinsha (1 July 2009). "The Faking of the Russian Avant-Garde". Artnews.
- ^ "Anna Kogan". FAMSF Search the Collections. September 21, 2018.
- ^ "Suprematist Composition". Seattle Art Museum. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
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