Viktor Vesnin
Appearance
Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin | |
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Born | April 9, 1882 |
Died | September 17, 1950 |
Nationality | Russian |
Occupation | Architect |
Practice | Vesnin Brothers, NKTP Architectural Board |
Buildings | DnieproGES |
Projects | Palace of Soviets, NKTP Building on Red Square |
Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (Russian: Виктор Александрович Веснин, 1882–1950), was a Russian Soviet architect. His early works (1909–1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in the 1920s, he and his brothers Leonid (1880–1933) and Alexander (1883–1959) emerged as leaders of Constructivist architecture, the Vesnin brothers. After the crackdown on Constructivism in 1931-32 and until his death, Viktor Vesnin was the highest-ranked architect in Soviet system, heading the Union of Soviet architects and Academy of Architecture. As a lead architect for heavy construction, he supervised many industrial projects, but his own visionary drafts of this period never materialized.[1][2]
Selected Work
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- 1934 Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project
- 1927-1932 DnieproGES, with Nikolai Kolli
- 1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarsky district, Moscow
- 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow
- 1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow
- 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project
- 1922-23 Palace of Labor project
- 1915 Sirotkin House, Nizhny Novgorod
- 1914 Mantashev Stables, Moscow Racetrack (with A.G.Izmirov, Alexander Vesnin) [3]
References
- ^ Viktor Vesnin at archINFORM
- ^ www.utopia.ru
- ^ Russian:Памятники архитектуры Москвы, Окрестности старой Москвы, М., 2004, cтр.133, ISBN 5-98051-011-7
External links
Categories:
- 1882 births
- 1950 deaths
- People from Yuryevets
- Constructivist architects
- Modernist architects
- Russian architects
- Russian avant-garde
- Soviet architects
- Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal
- Academicians of the USSR Academy of Architecture
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Russian artist stubs
- European architect stubs