Biography from AskART:
| David Burliuk was a central figure in the history of the Russian
avant-garde movement as an accomplished poet, art critic, and
exhibition organizer. "He was one of the world's first hippies,
and painted the words 'I Burliuk' on his forehead and stood on street
corners reciting poetry."
He was born into a privileged class of
Russian society. His wife was educated with the Czar's children,
and he was well positioned to become an artistic leader. Burliuk
studied at the Kazan School of Fine Arts in 1898 and then studied in
Odessa, Moscow, Munich, and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
His early works were fauve-like, "violent in color and heavy with
paint" and were exhibited with the Blue Riders in Munich.
In
Russia, as a breaker of artistic tradition, he was expelled in 1911
from the Moscow Institute. With other futurists, he undertook a
public campaign with lectures, journals and films--all focused on the
craziness of modern, industrial life.
With the advent of World
War I, he left Russia and traveled for four years including to Siberia,
Japan, and the South Seas. To start all over again, he moved to
America in 1922 and settled on Long Island where he continued to paint
until his death there in 1967.
His subjects range from
neo-primitive paintings to peasant life in Russia to futurist
depictions of South Sea fishermen. Much of his painting in Russia
vanished in the Russian Revolution. Throughout his life, Burliuk
was innovative, energetic and upbeat. In the United States, he
developed his "radio style", a style that involved symbolism,
neo-primitivism, and expressionism. "But Burliuk's early work in
pre-revolutionary experimental art was his most creative."
Source:
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
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Note, 2/4/2003, from Ed Dannenburg of New York City:
Founder Member "Die Blaue Reiter" and "Sturm" with Picasso, Kandinsky 1910--14
From 1923 exhibited Brooklyn Museum, Sesquicentennial Philadelphia 1926
One man show at Gallerie Maeght, Paris 1962
Became a USA citizen in 1930
1963 One-man Show at ACA Gallery, 63 E. 57th St. NYC
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