Vladimir
Baranov-Rossiné
B. 1888 Kherson, Ukraine D. 1944 Auschwitz, Poland
The Artist
Biography
Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné
B. 1888 Kherson, Ukraine D. 1944 Auschwitz, Poland
Baranoff-Rossiné was born in Kherson, Ukraine, in the Russian Empire.
In 1902 he studied at the School of the Society for the Furthering of the Arts in St. Petersburg. From 1903 to 1907 he attended the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.
In 1908 he exhibited with the group Zveno (“The Link”) in Kiev organized by the artist David Burliuk and his brother Vladimir Burliuk. In 1910 he moved to Paris, where until 1914 he was a resident in the artist’s colony La Ruche together with Alexander Archipenko, Sonia DelaunayTerk, Nathan Altman and others. He exhibited regularly in Paris after 1911.
In 1918 he had exhibitions with the union of artists Mir Iskusstva (“World of Art”) in Petrograd (St.Petersburg). In the same year he had an exhibition with the group Jewish Society for the Furthering of the Arts in Moscow, together with Nathan Altman, El Lissitzky and David Shterenberg. He participated at the First State Free Art Exhibition in Petrograd in 1919. In 1922 Baranoff-Rossiné was the teacher at the Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow.
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In 1924 he had the first presentation of his Optophonic Piano during a performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow – a synaesthetic instrument that was capable of creating colored lights, patterns and textures simultaneously. In 1925 he emigrated to France.
Continuously experimenting, Baranoff-Rossiné is credited as an author of the Russian Avant-Garde Cubo-Futurism and Pointillist movements. Baranoff-Rossiné applied the art of color to military art with the technique of camouflage or the Chameleon process alongside Robert Delaunay which was patented in 1939. Baranoff-Rossiné also invented a “photochromometer” that allowed the determination of the qualities of precious stones. Baranoff-Rossiné also perfected a machine that made, sterlized and distributed fizzy drinks, the “MULTIPERCO”, which received several technical awards at the time.
During the German occupation of France in World War II, Baranoff-Rossiné was deported to Auschwitz, a German concentration camp, and died there.
Baranoff-Rossine’s heritage is kept in St.Petersburg’s Russian Museum; New York’s Museum of Modern Art; Pompidou Center in Paris, and in private collections all around the world.
Available Artwork
Woman in a Hat
Oil on canvas
90 x 71.3 cm. (35.5 x 28 in.)
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