Brodovich Alexey

1898 (near St. Petersburg) - 1971 (France)

schedule, artist arts and crafts, photographer, set designer.

born in a family physician. From 1905 he lived in Moscow, then - in St. Petersburg. Systematic arts education is not received. He studied at the Tenishev real college, and later - in the officer's school, after which came to the front. He fought in the Volunteer Army, was seriously wounded in the fighting near Odessa, eight months, was treated at a hospital in Kislovodsk.

In 1919, ran through Constantinople to Paris. Engaged in arts and crafts. The designer interiors of private homes, creating sketches of scenery for the Russian ballet of Sergei Diaghilev and pictures of tissues on orders fashion houses Paul Poiret and Elsa Skyaparelli. In 1924 it won first place in the competition design posters for a charity ball for the benefit of poor artists Le Bal Banal.

worked with the Paris magazine Arts et Métier Graphiques , Cahiers d'Art , publishing Ple'iade "for which the illustrations and layouts. In 1925 received a gold medal for the costumes and two silver medals for the tissue samples at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris. In the late 1920's focused on work in the field of advertising.

France met Picasso, Derain A., R. Dufy, F. Leger, Le Corbusier, Alexandre Benois, and many other representatives of artistic circles.

In 1930 his family moved to the United States, where the head of department of advertising in the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Design in Philadelphia. Later led "laboratories" design at the New School for Social Research, Yale School of Design, American Institute of Graphic.

in 1934 became the chief artist of the magazine Harper `s Bazaar, over the next twenty-five years, defined" person "edition. At the same time he was art editor magazine Portfolio and Grafik Art, was a consultant to a number of American firms.

Many practiced photography, which was carried away even in Russia. Most famous Brodovych in this area brought the album was released in 1945 on the Russian Ballet in Monte-Carlo.

in 1960 was in a psychiatric hospital with profound depression. In 1966 he moved to France to work before the end of life did not come back.

In 1972, the Philadelphia College of Art held a memorial exhibition of the artist "A. Brodovich and its impact ", later exhibited in many U.S. cities.

Brodovich - the legendary designer who created the look of fashion magazine in the modern sense of the word. On the artistic master of views had a significant impact aesthetics Russian Silver Age and the work of masters vanguard 1910-x - 1920.