Description: The sale of Joseph (Mechirat Yosef) מכירת יוסףMax Weinrich (1894 - 1969)Vostok, Berlin 1923 Illustrations by Joseph Tchaikov Joseph Tchaikov (Иосиф Моисеевич Чайков; 1888-1979) – a Jewish sculptor, graphic designer, painter and theoretician, born in Kiev.Tchaikov studied in Paris during the years 1910-1914 and participated in the Parisian Salon d'Automne exhibition in 1913. After World War I, he was one of the founders of Kultur Lige in Kiev, taught sculpture and illustrated books – mostly children's books – and in the years after the revolution, also designed propaganda banners and posters. In 1921, the Melukhe-farlag publishing house in Kiev published his treatise "Sculpture", which is considered the first Yiddish book on sculpture and focuses on avant-garde in sculpture and the place of sculpture in Jewish art.During the years 1923-1930 he taught cubist sculpture inspired by Russian futurism in Moscow, at the Vkhutemas – Higher Art and Technical Studios (alongside Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky) and was also appointed the head of the union of Russian sculptors.During the next decades, Tchaikov continued to work in a variety of artistic styles and media, moving away from the style that characterized his early work. The booklets and books featured in this catalog, published between 1919 and 1923, all represent his part in Constructivism and the Russian avant-garde movement and document his early works of art as a cubo-futurist
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: yiddish
Topic: Historical
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
