TELINGATER Solomon Benediktovich

May 12, 1903 (Tiflis) - October 1, 1969 (Moscow)

graph, designer, set designer

from family theater artist, graphic BR Telingatera. Attended high school in Baku. He studied at the Free Art Workshop Narcompros in Baku (1919-1920), the Moscow Higher Art (1920-1921) at the VA Favorskogo, NI Piskareva.

lived in Baku (1921-1925), Moscow (1925). He worked in the field of book illustrations, was engaged in a poster, ex libris, the development of trademarks; tried to force a photomontage, collage, scenography. Creator typesetting For Commercial and drawing fonts. From 1920 he worked in art and graphics studio BakKavROSTA. Managed art studio in the House of the Red Youth in Baku (the first half of 1920). Has worked in various Baku and Moscow publishing houses ( "New Moscow", "Land and Factory, the Moscow theater Publishing), newspapers" Trud "," young worker "," Youth Truth ", the magazine" Cinema Art ". In 1922 he published a poem in Baku "Twelve" Blok's own illustrations. A poster for the elections in Baku Council (1925).

accomplished many magazine and book covers, "constructed" more than 600 books, among them: "Komsomol AI Bezymensky (1928)," Breaking the Silence "V. ; Mayakovsky (1931), "The Twelve Chairs" I. Ilf and E. Petrov, "VI Lenin. Album of photographs and documents "(1939)," Basil Terkin "Tvardovsky (1947)," The Tempest "Ilya Ehrenburg (1950)," Moscow: planning and building of the city. 1954-1957 "(1958 album) and others.

was under the influence of constructivist concepts of group members LEF (Left Front of art), such as A. Gunn, G. Klutsis, A. Rodchenko. For creativity Telingatera characterized arhitektonichnost, compositional perfection, elegance of calligraphic fonts, and design techniques of the book.

Helped El Lissitzky in the development of the Soviet pavilion for the international press exhibition in Cologne (1928). Member and exhibitor association "October" (1930, member since 1928) designed the almanac Association (1931). Participated in the exhibitions "Moscow ex libris 1926" in Moscow (1927), Soviet art in Winterthur (1929), book art in Cologne (1928), Paris and Lyon (1931-1932), New York (1939), Leipzig ( 1959, gold and silver medals) and others. He was awarded an international prize to them. Johann Gutenberg's Council of the City of Leipzig (1963).

At the beginning of the war enlisted in the national militia, worked in the front newspapers.

author of the book "Art For Commercial sets (M, 1965, with L. E. Kaplan).

In 1975 and 2003 were held in Moscow exhibition of the artist.

works are in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery.