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Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; uk, Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian and American
avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...
artist,
sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
, and graphic artist. He was one of the first to apply the principles of Cubism to architecture, analyzing human figure into geometrical forms.


Biography

Alexander Archipenko was born in
Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...
(
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, now
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) in 1887, to Porfiry Antonowych Archipenko and Poroskowia Vassylivna Machowa Archipenko; he was the younger brother of
Eugene Archipenko Eugene Porfirovych Archipenko ( uk, Євген Порфирович Архипенко) (1884–1959) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian politician, agronomist, and beekeeping, beekeeper. Archipenko was born in Kaharlyk in the Russian Empire to Porfiry ...
. From 1902 to 1905 he attended the Kyiv Art School (KKHU). In 1906 he continued his education in the arts at Serhiy Svetoslavsky (Kyiv), and later that year had an exhibition there with
Alexander Bogomazov Alexander Bogomazov or Oleksandr Bohomazov (russian: Александр Константинович Богомазов, uk, Олександр Костянтинович Богомазов; March 26, 1880 – June 3, 1930) was a Ukrainian painte ...
. He then moved to
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where he had a chance to exhibit his work in some group shows. Archipenko moved to
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in 1908 and quickly enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts, which he left after a few weeks. He was a resident in the artist's colony La Ruche, among
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Ukrainian artists: Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine,
Sonia Delaunay-Terk Sonia Delaunay (13 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to Fr ...
and
Nathan Altman Nathan Isaiovych Altman ( Ukrainian: , transliterated: ''Natan Isaiovych Altman''; – December 12, 1970) was a Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator. Early life He was born in Vinnytsia, i ...
. After 1910 he had exhibitions at ''
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'', ''
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'' together with
Aleksandra Ekster Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "pr ...
, Kazimir Malevich,
Vadym Meller Vadym Meller or Vadim Meller, (russian: Вадим Георгиевич Меллер; uk, Вадим Георгійович Меллер, 1884–1962) was a Ukrainian Soviet painter, avant-garde Cubist, Constructivist and Expressionist artis ...
,
Sonia Delaunay-Terk Sonia Delaunay (13 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to Fr ...
, Georges Braque, André Derain and others. In 1912 Archipenko had his first personal exhibition at the
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at Hagen in Germany, and from 1912 to 1914 he was teaching at his own Art School in Paris. Four of Archipenko's
Cubist sculpture Cubist sculpture developed in parallel with Cubism, Cubist painting, beginning in Paris around 1909 with its Proto-Cubism, proto-Cubist phase, and evolving through the early 1920s. Just as Cubist painting, Cubist sculpture is rooted in Paul Cézan ...
s, including ''Family Life'' and five of his drawings, appeared in the controversial ''
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'' in 1913 in
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. These works were caricatured in the
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. Archipenko moved to
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in 1914. In 1920 he participated in ''Twelfth Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte di Venezia'' in
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and started his own Art school in
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the following year. In 1922 Archipenko participated in the '' First Russian Art Exhibition'' in the Gallery van Diemen in Berlin together with Aleksandra Ekster, Kazimir Malevich,
Solomon Nikritin Solomon Nikritin ( uk, Соломон Борисовiч Нiкрiтiн; 1898–1965) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian Painting, painter, avant-garde artist ( Neo-Primitivist, Constructivism (art), Constructivist), philosopher, and author. Biography Solom ...
,
El Lissitzky Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, ; – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Эль Лиси́цкий; yi, על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist ...
and others. In 1923 he emigrated to the United States. He became a US citizen in 1929. In 1933 he exhibited at the Ukrainian pavilion in
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as part of the
Century of Progress A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositi ...
World's Fair. Alexander Archipenko contributed the most to the success of the Ukrainian pavilion. His works occupied one room and were valued at $25,000 dollars. In 1936 Archipenko participated in an exhibition ''Cubism and Abstract Art'' in New York as well as numerous exhibitions in
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and other places in the U.S. He was elected to the
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in 1962. Alexander Archipenko died on February 25, 1964, in New York City. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.


Contribution to art

Archipenko, along with the French-Hungarian sculptor
Joseph Csaky Joseph Csaky (also written Josef Csàky, Csáky József, József Csáky and Joseph Alexandre Czaky) (18 March 1888 – 1 May 1971) was a Hungarian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic arts, graphic artist, best known for his early partici ...
, exhibited at the first public manifestations of Cubism in Paris; the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d'Automne, 1910 and 1911, being the first, after Picasso, to employ the Cubist style in three dimensions. Archipenko departed from the neo-classical sculpture of his time, using faceted planes and
negative space Negative space, in art, is the empty space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and s ...
to create a new way of looking at the human figure, showing a number of views of the subject simultaneously. He is known for introducing sculptural voids, and for his inventive mixing of genres throughout his career: devising 'sculpto-paintings', and later experimenting with materials such as clear acrylic and
terra cotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...
. Inspired by the works of Picasso and Braque, he is also credited for introducing the collage to wider audiences with his ''Medrano'' series. The sculptor Ann Weaver Norton apprenticed with Archipenko for a number of years.


Public collections

Among the public collections holding works by Alexander Archipenko are: * The
Addison Gallery of American Art The Addison Gallery of American Art is an academic museum dedicated to collecting American art, organized as a department of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. History Directors of the gallery include Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. (1940– ...
(Andover, Massachusetts) * The Art Institute of Chicago * The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University, Illinois) * Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Utah) * Chi-Mei Museum (Taiwan) * The
Delaware Art Museum The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 objects. The museum was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in honor of the artis ...
(Wilmington, Delaware) * The Denver Art Museum (Colorado) * The
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. The permanent collection of the ...
* The
Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: Locations Americas * The Solomon R. Guggenhei ...
(New York City) * The
Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the largest ...
(Saint Petersburg) * The
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was desig ...
(Washington D.C.) * The
Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single co ...
*
Indiana University Art Museum The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University opened in 1941 under the direction of Henry Radford Hope.Baden, Linda J. Indiana University Art Museum: Dedication. Bloomington, IN: Museum, 1982. Print. The museum was intended to be the center of ...
(Bloomington) * The
Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 19 ...
* The Maier Museum of Art (Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia) * The
Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art. Location and Visit Located on the lakefront of Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee Art Museum is one of the largest art museu ...
* The
Minneapolis Institute of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is an arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, Mia is one of the largest art museums in the United State ...
(Minneapolis) * The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Alabama) * The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston * The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston * The
Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
(New York City) * The
National Museum of Serbia The National Museum of Serbia ( sr, / ) is the largest and oldest museum in Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the central zone of Belgrade on a square plot between the Republic Square, formerly Theatre Square, and three streets: Čika Ljubina ...
(Belgrade, Serbia) * The
Nasher Sculpture Center Opened in 2003, the Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum in Dallas, Texas, that houses the Patsy and Raymond Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. It is located on a site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the Dallas Art ...
(Dallas, Texas) * The National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.) *
National Museum Cardiff National Museum Cardiff ( cy, Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd) is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Entry is kept free by a grant from the Welsh Gov ...
* The
North Carolina Museum of Art The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. Since the initial 1947 appropriation that e ...
* The
Norton Simon Museum The Norton Simon Museum is an art museum located in Pasadena, California, United States. It was previously known as the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum and displays numerous sculptures on its grounds. Overview The Norton Si ...
(Pasadena, California) * The
Peggy Guggenheim Collection The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro ''sestiere'' of Venice, Italy. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the , an 18th-century palace, which was the home ...
(Venice) * The Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania) * The
Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin ...
(Washington D.C.) * The Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon) * The
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(Maine) * Salisbury House (Des Moines, Iowa) * The San Antonio Art League Museum (Texas) * The
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(California) * The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Lincoln, Nebraska) * The Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.) * Städel Museum (Frankfurt) *
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(London) * The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel) * The Ukrainian Museum (New York City) * Von der Heydt-Museum (Wuppertal, Germany) *
Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, to ...
(Minnesota) * The Cleveland Cultural Gardens (Ukrainian Garden) in Rockefeller Park (Ohio) * Fundación D.O.P. (Caracas) *
Museum de Fundatie Museum de Fundatie () is a museum for the visual arts in Zwolle, Netherlands. Museum de Fundatie forms part of the Hannema-de Stuers Foundation, to which Kasteel het Nijenhuis in Heino also belongs. Museum de Fundatie possesses a collection of vis ...
(
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, Netherlands) Archipenko's tall
cubist Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
statue of King Solomon is installed at the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
campus. Archipenko began work on a smaller prototype of the statue in 1964, but died before the work was finished, leaving his wife to oversee its completion. The full-sized statue was completed in 1968 and was donated to the university in 1985.


Gallery

File:Alexander Archipenko, 1910, Le baiser (The Kiss). Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921..jpg, ''Le baiser (The Kiss)'', 1910 File:Alexander Archipenko, Portrait de Mme Kameneff, Folkwang Museum, Hagen. Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Portrait de Mme Kameneff'' File:Alexander Archipenko, 1910-11, Venus.jpg, ''Venus'', 1910–11 File:Alexander Archipenko, L'Héros (The Hero). Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''L'Héros (The Hero)'', ca.1912 File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912, Femme Marchante (Woman Walking). Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Femme Marchant (Woman Walking)'', 1912 File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912, Dancers, Der Tanz, 24 in. original plaster.jpg, ''Dancers (Der Tanz)'', 1912, original plaster, 24 in. This first version of ''Dancers'' was illustrated on the front cover of ''The Sketch'', 29 October 1913, London File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912-13, Zwei Körper (Two Bodies).jpg, ''Zwei Körper (Two Bodies)'', 1912–13 File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912-13, Roter Tanz (Danse rouge, Blue Dancer).jpg, ''Roter Tanz (Danse rouge, Blue Dancer)'', 1912–13 File:Alexander Archipenko, 1913, Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with a Fan), 108 x 61.5 x 13.5 cm, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with a Fan)'', 1913, Tel Aviv Museum of Art File:Alexander Archipenko, 1913, Pierrot-carrousel, painted plaster, 61 × 48.6 × 34 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Pierrot-carrousel'', 1913, painted plaster, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York File:Alexander Archipenko, 1914, Danseuse du Médrano (Médrano II), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Danseuse du Médrano (Médrano II)'', 1914, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York File:Alexander Archipenko, Flat Torso, 1914.jpg, ''Flat Torso'', 1914 File:Alexander Archipenko, Sculpto-peinture.jpg, ''Sculpto-peinture'' File:Alexander Archipenko, c.1920, Femme assise (Composition), 31.1 x 23.2 cm, gouache on paper.jpg, Alexander Archipenko, c.1920, ''Femme assise'' (''Composition''), 31.1 x 23.2 cm, gouache on paper File:Alexander Archipenko, 1919, Femmes - Vases (Women - Vases). Reproduced in Archipenko-Album, 1921.jpg, ''Femmes - Vases (Women - Vases)'', 1919 File:Alexander archipenko.JPG, ''Woman combing her hair'', 1914, bronze, Israel Museum,
Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
File:Gateway Sculptures by Alexander Archipenko 1950.jpg, ''Gateway Sculptures'', 1950, painted steel,
University of Missouri–Kansas City The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university in Kansas City, Missouri. UMKC is part of the University of Missouri System and one of only two member universities with a medical school. As of 2020, the university ...
. File:King Solomon Archipenko.JPG, King Solomon on the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
campus File:Alexander Archipenko Gravesite 2009.JPG, The gravesite of Alexander Archipenko in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, NY The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Yor ...
File:Queen of Sheba, Alexander Archipenko, 1961.jpg, alt=, ''Queen of Sheba'', 1961, in the
Lynden Sculpture Garden Lynden Sculpture Garden (formerly the Bradley Sculpture Garden) is a 40-acre outdoor sculpture park located at 2145 West Brown Deer Road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Milwaukee County. Formerly the estate of Harry Lynde Bradley and Margaret (Peg ) Bla ...


Further reading

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Notes


External links


The Archipenko Foundation
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"Refashioning the Figure – The Sketchbooks of Archipenko c.1920", by Marek Bartelik (Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture No. 41) at archipenko.org. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
Archipenko. Catalogue of Exhibition and Description of Archipentura. New York, The Anderson Galleries, 1928.

Katharine Kuh. Alexander Archipenko. A Memorial Exhibition 1967-1969. The UCLA Art Galleries, 1969

Nagy Ildiko, ''Archipenko Album'', 1980
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