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Mstislav Dobuzhinski

Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinski (1875 - 1957) was active/lived in New York / Lithuania, Russian Federation.  Mstislav Dobuzhinski is known for Theater design, expressionist painting.

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Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky or Dobujinsky was a Russian-Lithuanian artist noted for his cityscapes conveying the explosive growth and decay of the early twentieth-century city.

Of noble Lithuanian extraction, Dobuzhinsky was born on August 14, 1875 in Novgorod into the family of an army officer.  From 1885 to 1887, he attended the Drawing School of the Society for the Promotion of the Artists.  Between 1895 and 1899, he read Law at the University of St. Petersburg, simultaneously studying in private studios.  After graduating from the University, he was trained from 1899 to 1901 by Anton Azbè in Munich and Simon Hollósy in Nagybánya (Austria-Hungary).  In Munich, he came to be influenced by the Jugendstil. On his return to Russia, he joined the Mir Iskusstva, an artistic circle which idealized the 18th century as the "age of elegance".

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   Mstislav Dobuzhinski  Born:  1875 - Novjorod, Russia
Died:   1957 - New York City
Known for:  Theater design, expressionist painting
Name variants:  Mstislav Valerianovitch Doboujinski, Mstislav Doboujinsky, Mstislav V Dobujinsky, Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav V Dobyinsky, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky Valerianovich

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Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky or Dobujinsky was a Russian-Lithuanian artist noted for his cityscapes conveying the explosive growth and decay of the early twentieth-century city.

Of noble Lithuanian extraction, Dobuzhinsky was born on August 14, 1875 in Novgorod into the family of an army officer.  From 1885 to 1887, he attended the Drawing School of the Society for the Promotion of the Artists.  Between 1895 and 1899, he read Law at the University of St. Petersburg, simultaneously studying in private studios.  After graduating from the University, he was trained from 1899 to 1901 by Anton Azbè in Munich and Simon Hollósy in Nagybánya (Austria-Hungary).  In Munich, he came to be influenced by the Jugendstil. On his return to Russia, he joined the Mir Iskusstva, an artistic circle which idealized the 18th century as the "age of elegance".

Dobuzhinsky was distinguished from other miriskusniki by his expressionist manner and keen interest in modern industrial cityscapes.  He often painted seedy or tragic scenes from urban life which expressed the nightmarish bleakness and loneliness of modern times. Among his works were also humorous vignettes and sketches with demon-like creatures which seemed to embody the monstrosities of urbanization.

Like other members of the Mir iskusstva, Dobuzhinsky also experimented with scenic design. At first he worked for Constantin Stanislavski at the Moscow Arts Theatre, but later on also contributed sets to several Diaghilev productions. He was renowned as an excellent art teacher; among his young pupils was Vladimir Nabokov, with whom he maintained correspondence for decades.

During the First World War Dobuzhinsky went with Eugene Lanceray to the front lines to sketch.  Later, he took part in the Second Congress of the Communist International.  In 1918, he supervised the theatrical workshop at the State Educational Workshops of the Decorative Arts (the former Stieglitz School of the Technical Drawing).  In 1923-24, he went abroad to study developments in European art and to arrange one-man shows.  In 1924, Dobuzhinsky followed the advice of Jurgis Baltrusaitis and withdrew to Lithuania.  He was naturalized there in 1924 and lived in Kaunas until 1925.  He then emigrated to England and then to the USA in 1939.  In Lithuania he worked at a state theatre as scenographer and created scenography for 38 plays, besides running a private painting school (1930-1933).

Among his later works are series of masterful and dramatic illustrations, notably for Dostoyevsky's White Nights (1923) and Yuri Olesha's Three Fat Men (1925).  Between 1925 and 1929, Dobuzhinsky contributed sets for theatre productions in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Düsseldorf.  During World War II, Dobuzhinsky painted imaginary landscapes of the besieged Leningrad.  He died in New York on November 20, 1957. His memoirs were published posthumously.

Dobuzhinsky is represented in the following institutions, among others: The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; The A. A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow; The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; The Picture Gallery of Armenia, Erevan.

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