part 2:LAZAR MARKOVICH KHIDEKEL - Museum Haus Konstruktiv

Biography (short version)1904 Born in Vitebsk.1918 Admission to the art school in Vitebsk.1919 Studies under Marc Chagall (among others) and later El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich.1920-22 Member of the group UNOVIS (Champions of the New Art) under the leadership ofKazimir Malevich.Editor and designer of the periodical "AERO. Articles and Projects" (together with IlyaChashnik).1922 Khidekel graduates from the art school in Vitebsk renamed to the Vitebsk Practical ArtInstitute Khidekel follows Malevich to St. Petersburg.1924 Studies architecture at the Institute of Civil Engineering in Leningrad (LIGI).First suprematist architecture projects appear: Aero-Cities, City on the Pillars, City OverWater and Garden-City.1929 Khidekel receives his degree in architecture from LIGI.Together with A. Nikolsky, Khidekel designs the Cooperative Institute in Moscow.1930-1940 Khidekel works as an architect at the Leningrad Urban Planning Institute and teachesarchitecture at LIGI (until 1986).In the 1930s, although Khidekel sees himself confronted with classicism in architecture, hepursues suprematist theories in his work, right up until his death. He realises numerousprojects, e.g. a radio studio, various cooperatives, the Red Banner House of Culture andMoscow's first triplex cinema. Drawings, photographic works, plans and many designs areproduced.During the Second World War, GIPROMEZ, a new leading architectural institute whereKhidekel develops new technical methods, is founded in Sverdlovsk (Ukraine).1950-1960 Khidekel is called upon to participate in a national competition for a Stalin memorial inMoscow. He takes part in the competition and draws up a series of designs for a museum inhonour of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, founder of cosmonautics.The reflection on cosmic themes inspires Khidekel to enter a post-suprematist period in hiswork.1986 Lazar Khidekel dies on 22 November in Leningrad.Solo exhibition (selection)1995 Suprematism and Architecture, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.2004 Surviving Suprematism: Lazar Khidekel, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley CAGroup exhibitions (selection)1919 First State Exhibition of Local and Moscow Artists with Chagall, Kandinsky,Malevich, Lissitzky and Rodchenko, among others.1920 UNOVISIn July, his works are exhibited at the First All-Russian Conference of Teachers andStudents of Art Schools in Moscow.1922 First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin.1923 Works of Petrograd Artists of All Trends, 1918 – 1923.1927 First Exhibition of Contemporary Architecture organised by the magazine "S.A. theConstructivist magazine of contemporary architecture".1992 The Great Utopia The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde 1915-1932Solomon Guggenheim Museum, State Tretiakov Gallery, State Russian Museum,Schirn Kunsthalle FrankfurtStiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 Zürich, T +41 (0)44 217 70 80, F +41 (0)44 217 70 90info@hauskonstruktiv.ch, www.hauskonstruktiv.ch