Alina Semukha(USA) - НЕРОДИВШИЙСЯ "ГЕНИЙ"(Для изучения и перевода)
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Суббота, 11 Декабря 2010 г. 19:08
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ЖИВОПИСЬ И ПОЛИТИКА (НЕСОСТОЯВШИЙСЯ ПЕЙЗАЖИСТ)
Missed a genius ...
PAINTING AND POLICY (FAILED landscape)
The history of the twentieth century would have been different, if one person took time at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
About this "artist" I wrote in a post at the beginning of a blog. Then it was a set of questions, "How can this be?", "Why?", Etc.
Most recently in the journal «STORY» I read an article by Alexander Mikhailov, "Artists can offend everyone, which if not answered all my questions, but at least gave the information that can not be read in any biography of this man.
Taking the article Mikhailova, I want you to have read and reviewed these materials and share their impressions.
Thus, Chapter 1
"He was poor and the sick"
The fact that he is an artist, the boy decided in another 12 years. And immediately got a thrashing from his father: the customs officer wanted to see in the son of a solid, secured by a person, not shalopaya. Their relationship, already cold, very deteriorated. Conflict of his son and his father stopped after a year at Christmas due to the sudden death of the head of the family. Boy it is not much mourned. Received as pension, 80 percent of income the deceased, the family continued to live quietly and peacefully.
The following year the boy was transferred to a school in the small town of Steyr, 25 kilometers from home. Mother hoped that he will learn, but instead learned the boy had to struggle with loneliness. He was 15 years old, he did not know anyone from the fellow students and was terribly unhappy.
Housekeeper guesthouse remembered that he was quiet and polite rest of the guys, a lot of time spent for books and drawing. Six months later, contact with the children got up, but the estimates were still weak.
In June 1905, the boy returned home after graduation from junior high school, and then he suffered a sudden attack. The doctor noted the bleeding in the lung, and said that there is no chance of recovery. But the mother has already lost two sons, decided not to give up. She surrounded her son care, every morning, wake him up a glass of hot milk. By the fall of the disease began to back away, but for a school boy was still weak. Therefore, high school diploma he never received.
Parents' home in Leonding 1911
Now the artist's career was his only chance, without a diploma the way to other schools for him was closed. He began to spend for all my free time drawing, painting from nature, or by copying prints and postcards, sometimes making multiple copies for as long as the outcome did not suit him completely.
CHAPTER 2: "DREAMS"
During this time he met and befriended Kuzibekom Augustus, who became his best friend in the next few years. They met at the opera, which often came in advance to take place in the columns, because the tickets had no money. Kuzibek was the son of a successful furniture upholsterer, he played the piano, violin and trumpet, and studied music theory and saw myself in the future, a great man.
Vienna's Imperial Theatre in 1907
They began to spend much time together, dreaming about how to live when their dreams come true. They wanted to have a large villa, making it a haven for young, talented but poor artists and musicians. The young artist made dozens of sketches of their future housing.
Interior. Living room 1910
Their vision was the capital. In Vienna, sought to thousands of young people, but the mother was strongly against. She believed that her son has recovered enough from the disease. For 17 birthday, she made her son a gift - a trip to the capital for the holidays, secretly hoping that he has enough good sense to abandon a career artist.
Completely charmed, he wandered through Vienna, making sketches of buildings and streets. Returning home, he began to prepare for entrance exams at the Academy of Fine Arts. Pets come to terms with his choice. Husband of his elder sister recalled: "He's not like we are. Let him go his own way. "
Austrian town in 1908
In late summer, his mother gave him a piece of his father's legacy - 700 kroons, and blessed by the fact that his dream could come true. By the time the mother's health deteriorated, doctors diagnosed breast cancer, emergency surgery was done, but the patient's condition is poor.
CHAPTER 3. CHRISTMAS "GIFTS"
The capital greeted him with a disappointment - he failed his exams. Old professor, who is Jewish, said that in art it has nothing to do. The fact that out of 113 applicants enrolled only 28, he was not comforted. He wandered week in Vienna, not daring to return home. Arriving at his mother, he learned from the doctor that her days are numbered. December 21 artist's mother passed away. He sat at the Christmas tree and wept, his whole life, he then will hate Christmas.
Left an orphan, he decides to go back to Vienna and come again to the academy. He is joined by his faithful friend Kuzibek, dreaming to enter the Conservatoire.
Seashore 1913
Friends rented a room for two, and the young artist immediately filled up her own work. Kind for his work served as the building and the old parts of Vienna, he liked very Shonbryunn castle, which he endlessly sketched.
Kubizek recalled that his friend understood the architecture. "When he saw during the walk interesting building, he could spend hours analyzing some architectural detail, and with such knowledge, though he was the builder of this building and had to pay noticed shortcomings of his own pocket."
Roterdamsky Cathedral in 1913
He was attracted by urban planning. He drew a flat working draft, having decided it unheard of for that time a luxury - a private bath. He drew numerous sketches of conversion of Vienna with its wide streets and green parks. For eighteen Provincial these projects were too ambitious.
CHAPTER 4. "Savage World"
At the Academy he was again waiting for the refusal, although the teacher (that is another!), Said that he could try his hand at architecture. But for admission to the faculty of architecture, where the same examinations have been completed, you need a diploma of education, which young men do not. Doors slam academy again in his face. He had nowhere to return. Kubizek offered him help, but received a dramatic and decisive rejection, their relationship was given a crack.
Legacy of his father slowly melted. By autumn, he was replaced by an apartment for a cheaper, by mid-September to sell their belongings, including sketches and unique coat. All the income accounted for 25 crowns, which he received as an orphan.
In November, while the money still remained, he slept in the cheapest rooms on the edge and bathed in the municipal baths. But by the time the money ran out. He tried to beg, but the first passerby beat him with his cane. Since the last penny in his pocket, he spent several evenings in a cafe, ordering only coffee and trying to sleep, but it drove. In late November, when spending the night in the park became unbearable, he went to a charity for the homeless, which contain rich Jews (the second reason to hate them!), Where they could live free and eat for 5 days.
Here he met with a professional vagabond Reinhold Hanisch. Hanisch said the artist is all about life tramps, showed the place in town where you can get a free lunch, suggested, where you can earn a porter or vybivalschikom carpets. He also persuaded to write a letter to relatives for help when the answer came in an envelope artist found 50 euros.
CHAPTER 5. "There once was an artist"
He bought a coat, and his eyes again lighted up the excitement. The artist has decided that he could live with his talent as a street artist. In Vienna comes a lot of tourists, happy to buy up views of the city. Numerous cafes can also be ordered landscapes for their clients. Hanisch called to be the seller of his paintings, and even agrees to one of the workshops on the design of the hall for sale.
Flowers in a Vase 1912
So our hero becomes a working artist. He wrote the day, usually in a cafe in the evening returned to the rooming house. Soon, things went uphill, and he took shelter in the men's dormitory Mannerheim. For Easter 1910 they earned Hanish, 40 euros for one order. With the approaching tourist season, Hanisch sold out all that his friend wrote and scolded him constantly because he is slow.
Soon friends had a falling out - Hanisch, sell the painting, did not return for her money, drank them.
The artist has already considers himself a master and does not need a personal seller of his paintings, his views of Vienna he had long bought art galleries. In the offseason artist painted signs, advertisements powder, shoe polish and underwear.
Chapter 6, "Munich!"
So passed three years. May 24, 1913, shortly after his 24 th birthday, he collects stuff and buys a one way ticket to Munich. There he rents a room a few blocks from the station. His house was located at the end of the artistic colony and close to the university. Area was packed with studios, art and book salons, art-cafe where collected bohemians and students, who dreamed as he was about fame and success.
Munich. Old Yard in 1914
Master of his house was a tailor, Josef Popp. This was doubly good deal: the tailor got quiet tenant, and the artist - an opportunity to dress well with a big discount. His affairs were going well: he earned more than 100 marks a month, spending a day not more than one brand. Its theme is once again becoming the city and the scenery around him.
Oburdin in southern France in 1916
About a year was an idyllic life of an artist, he dreamed of such a child.
It all ended in August 1914. Instead, the artist colony was waiting Bavarian infantry regiment, where in the personal cadet shooting, possession of a bayonet, and even military salute were triples.
EPILOGUE
Since then, the story ends with a young artist with a pale face and begins the story of a man with a tiny mustache, who curses the whole world.
Portrait of Adolf Hitler (figure one of my friends)
If you still do not understand, of whom was my story, call him a name - Adolph Hitler. Ahead of him will be front and two crosses, "Beer Hall Putsch", a night of long knives and World War II.
The world was cruel to the artist. And the artist Adolf Hitler became Fuhrer and flooded the world with blood.
P.S.
Separating the author from his works is not easy, knowing that the author - one of the greatest butchers in history. Those who view these pictures without knowing the author, speak about them well.
Art critic Doug Harney wrote:
"The urban landscape of Hitler has a certain charm, a sort of serenity and humility, so uncharacteristic of his personality. His works are executed with skill and energy, and wrap it in a different fate, he could have done a very successful art career "
Hitler made a career villain and a monster - and it even ruined what would have been proud.
Most of the watercolors and paintings by Hitler in the secret vaults of the Center of Military History of the American army, they came back after the war from the collection of the photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, which were from 20s. Access to, denied to all except a few art experts. Moreover, they will never be shown to the public because it is considered "extremely dangerous".
To this I have nothing to add! It remains only to say that in the post used the picture of Hitler from the site of Alexander Petrov's "Art of the Third Reich" and the magazine "STORY".
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