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The Munich School of Anton Ažbe and its influence on Ukrainian artists

10.37131/2524-0943-2024-53-6
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Author(s): 

Viktoria Lowack

Candidate of Historical Sciences , Institute for East European History and Regional Studies, Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (Germany), Gerda Henkel Foundation Fellow, Düsseldorf (Germany)
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1097-3955
Issue: 
№ 53 / 2024
Pages: 
60-72
Abstract: 

The pedagogical method of the Slovenian artist and teacher Anton Ažbe, whose school in Munich during 1891-1905 became one of the most famous educational centers in Europe, is considered. On the basis of memoirs and epistolary of A. Ažbe's pupils the progressive method of teaching and the central principles on which his artistic and pedagogical system was built - "the principle of the ball", "the principle of large lines", "the principle of crystallization of colours", preservation of the pupil's individuality, which in the first quarter of the twentieth century laid the technical and ideological foundations for the development of artistic practices and turned the school into a place of experimentation and creative research - are analyzed. The extraordinary personality of the artist and teacher Anton Ashbe, who had a significant influence on his students, among them prominent figures of European modernism (V. Kandinsky, A. Yavlensky), is emphasized. The influence of Anton Ashbe's central principles, personality and national attitudes on Ukrainian artists who attended his school - Olexander Murashko, Davyd Burliuk, Volodymяr Burliuk, Ivan Trush - and later became central figures of the modernist era in Ukraine. It is noted that the study of Ukrainian artists in Munich, involvement in European educational, cultural, artistic and social networks had a significant impact on their creative biographies and significantly affected the Ukrainian artistic landscape and the development of Ukrainian art in the European paradigm. The importance of the successes of Ukrainian artists on the European artistic scene is emphasized, which are manifested against the background of complex and unfavorable institutional, cultural and financial arrangements of Ukraine's affiliation with a more tolerant (Austro-Hungarian) and more intolerant (Russian) empire.

Keywords: 
Anton Ažbe's principles, art schools, works by Oleksandr Murashko, David Burliuk, Volodymyr Burliuk, and Heorhiy Narbut.
UDC: 
75.071.1.02(497.4)Ашб:75.071.1.035.93(477)''19''](045)
Language of publication: 
Українська
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