Alexander Aleksandrovich Vesnin (russian: Александр Александрович Веснин) (28 May 1883, Yuryevets – 7 September 1959, Moscow), together with his brothers

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and

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, was a leading light of

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. He is best known for his meticulous perspectival drawings such as
Leningrad Pravda
' of 1924. In addition to being an architect, he was a theatre designer and painter, frequently working with

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on designs for workers' festivals, and for the theatre of Tairov. He was one of the exhibitors in the pioneering Constructivist exhibition 5×5=25 in 1921. He was the head, along with

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, of the Constructivist

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. Among the completed buildings designed by the Vesnin brothers in the later 1920s were department stores, a club for former Tsarist political prisoners as well as the Likachev Works Palace of Culture in Moscow. Vesnin was a vocal supporter of the works of Le Corbusier, and acclaimed his

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as 'the best building constructed in Moscow for a century'. After the return to Classicism in the Soviet Union, Vesnin had no further major projects. File:Alexander Vesnin Abstract Composition 1915c..jpg, ''Abstract Composition.'' 1915c.

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Selected work

*1934

People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom; russian: Народный комиссариат тяжёлой промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union in 1930s. Brief overview The People's ...

Project *1930 Oilworkers' Club, Baku *1930-36 Likachev Palace of Culture, Moscow *1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow *1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow *1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project *1922-23 Palace of Labor project

References

*S.N Khan-Magomedov, Alexander Vesnin and Russian Constructivism (Thames and Hudson, 1988) *Khan-Magomedov S. O. Architecture of the Soviet avant-garde: In 2 books: B. 1: Formation problems. Masters and currents. - M .: Stroyizdat. 1996 .-- 709 pp., Ill. . *A.G. Chinyakov. The Vesnin brothers. Moscow, 1970.

External links

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Alexander Vesnin, photographs

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vesnin, Alexander 1883 births 1959 deaths Academicians of the USSR Academy of Architecture Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Architects from the Russian Empire Constructivist architects Modernist architects Modernist architecture in Russia Russian architects Russian avant-garde Soviet architects Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering alumni