DAVID
BURLIUk
B. 1882 Riabushky, Ukraine
D. 1967 Southampton, NY
The Artist
Biography
DAVID BURLIUK
B. 1882 Riabushky, Ukraine D. 1967 Southampton, NY
David Burliuk was a Russian-Ukrainian poet, artist, publicist and book illustrator associated with the Futurist, NeoPrimitivist and Russian Futurism movements. Internationally renowned as the “Father of Futurism” in his native Ukraine and in Russia, David Burliuk was a major contributor to the seminal period of modernism in the early decades of the 20th century.
Burliuk was born in 1882 near the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine. He studied in Odessa and Kazan (1898-1902), at the Munich Royal Academy of Arts (1902-1903), and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1904).
Burliuk was an active participant in important avant-garde exhibitions in Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Munich. From December 1913 to April 1914, the notoriety of Burliuk’s Futurists reached its peak as Burliuk, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Vasily Kamensky toured 17 cities in the Russian Empire.
During the revolutionary years 1917-1920, he traveled to Siberia, where he gave Futurist concerts and sold his art. From 1920 to 1922 he spent time in Japan painting, organizing exhibitions, and promoting Futurism. In 1922, Burliuk arrived in the United States, settling first in New York City, where he lived from 1922 to 1941, and then in Hampton Bays, Long Island (1941-1967).
From 1937 to 1966 Burliuk and his wife, Marusia, published Color & Rhyme, a journal primarily concerned with charting Burliuk’s activities.
Today, Burliuk’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, among others.
Available Artwork
Arles, France
1949
Oil on canvas
21.5 x 15 in (54.6 x 38 cm)
Two Women with Ducks
oil on canvas
24 x 35 78 in (61 x 91 cm)
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