BRUNI Tatiana

October 24, 1902 (St. Petersburg) - September 19, 2001 (St. Petersburg)

schedule, set designer

granddaughter of the architect and painter Yu F. Bruni, granddaughter of the artist FA Bruni.

Studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1918-1920) at the AR Eberlinga, then in Petrograd free art workshops - Higher Art - Vhuteine (1920-1926) in O . E. Braz, N. Radlov, VI Belyaev, AL Vakhrameeva, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin .

lived in Petrograd (Leningrad). Since 1924 worked in the field of theatrical scenery. It was one of the artists of the Young Ballet, created by George Balanchine. He has designed many productions of the Leningrad State Academic Maly Opera House ( "Vain precaution" P.-L. Hartel, 1937; Doctor Aibolit "Irina Morozova, 1948;" Coppelia "Leo Delibes, 1947; "Mistress into Maid" BV Afanasyev, 1951; "Francesca da Rimini" BV Afanasyev, 1959; "Esmeralda" C. Puni, 1982), Leningrad Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. Kirov ( "Cinderella" by S. Prokofiev, 1964), Leningrad Drama Drama Theater. Pushkin, the Conservatory Opera Studio of the Theater of Musical Comedy, Ukrainian Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. Shevchenko, submission of Leningrad Circus.

Since the late 1930's (by 1980) worked at the Leningrad Choreographic School. She taught at the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. In 1950 was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1960 - the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Has solo exhibitions in Leningrad (1971, 1982, 1985).

Bruni is one of the most important masters of theatrical-decorative art of the twentieth century. At the beginning of an artist's career quickly gained a reputation as a leading representative of a new stage designers of the Leningrad school, to which belonged also NP Akimov and VM Khodasevich. In the early period passed through passion constructivism (ballet "Bolt" to the music of Shostakovich in Leningrad's Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, 1931). In the future, turned to the classical tradition, decoration, close to the aesthetics of "World of Art».

Bruni works are in many museum and private collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, the State Central Theater Museum im. AA Bakhrushin Museum of the Mariinsky Theater and others.