LAVINSKY Anton Mikhailovich

1893 (Sochi) — 1968 (Moscow)

Sculptor, architect, graphic designer, set designer

From the family of the employee of customs of sea protection. He graduated from the architecture-строительное branch of the Technical College in Baku (1913). In 1913 he moved to St. Petersburg. As a student he attended classes Л. В. Шервуда at the sculpture Department of the Higher art school of painting, sculpture and architecture under the Imperial Academy of arts.

In 1915-1917 were in military service. He studied at the State free art-учебных studios (1918-1919) Л. В. Шервуда and А. Т. Матвеева. Organized in Sochi sculptural school-студию (1918).

participated in the implementation of the plan of monumental propaganda, under which executed the monument К. Марксу for the red Village, a model of the monument М. Е. Салтыкову-Щедрину. In 1919 he created the project of the monument of the October revolution (co-authored with В. А. Синайским).

In 1919 sent to Saratov to teach at Saratov state of free art workshops. Member of Saratov "society of artists of new art" (Presentity).

In 1920 he moved to Moscow. Closer to В. В. Маяковским and a group of artists of the Institute of artistic culture (INKhUK). A member of the group "LEF" (1921), the artist of the magazine.

Worked in "Windows of satire GROWTH" (from 1920). One of the first masters of the poster photomosaics, worked on movie posters, advertisements, design of books. The author of the posters of the film "Battleship "Potemkin": 1905 год" (1926), posters of the "Open subscription "faculty work at home"", "Export — imports of the USSR" (both — 1926), "Red Army — school citizen..." (1927) and others.

Performed the design of the play "Mystery-буфф" В. В. Маяковского in the production В. Э. Мейерхольда (1921; in collaboration with В. П. Киселевым and В. Л. Храковским); decoration — structural system of ladders, bridges, platforms, around the hemisphere with the words "Earth". Made by the artist and Director of the movie "Radio" (1927).

a Supporter of the art production; according to Lavinsky, the artist must go into engineering as a new utilitarian sphere and to organize her visual perception. In 1921-1922 выполнил the project "City on springs", made in 1922 INKhUK in a report "Inzenieris", which has its justifications: the city of the future determined by Lavinsky in the form of radial-кольцевой scheme, the diameters of which — two perpendicularly located Boulevard; each sector of the circle is divided into quarters boulevards designed for pedestrian traffic; buildings raised on supports in the form of a spring steel truss design, which are highways. On the first tiers —, public institutions, above — dwelling. Building materials — steel, aluminium, glass, asbestos.

In 1923-1925 выполнял the design of the kiosks and the state publishing house of Mosselprom, 1927 — project "Radiocarbon". Together with El Lissitzky participated in the development of the exposition of the Soviet pavilion at the International exhibition of printing in Cologne (1928). Arrange a posthumous exhibition of works В. В. Маяковского in Moscow (1931). In 1930-х was engaged in festive decoration of streets and squares of Moscow.

From 1931 — member of akhr. Participated in exhibitions: exhibition of pictorial-пластической culture in Saratov (1920), 1-я Russian art exhibition in Berlin (1922), international exhibition art-декоративных arts in Paris (1925), 1-я (1925), 2-я (1926) exhibition poster, exhibition "Window satire GROWTH" (1929), "Artists of the RSFSR for XV years" (1933) in Moscow, the artists of the Soviet theater in Leningrad and Moscow (1935), jubilee Republican exhibition on the 25-летию October in Tashkent (1943).

he Taught at the Saratov state art workshops (1919-1920), VKhUTEMAS in Moscow (1920-1926): until 1923 на sculpture (with Б. Д. Королевым) Department, 1923-1926 — on woodworking.

Work is represented in several Museum collections, including the national library of Russia.