Vadym Heorhiiovych Meller (Ukrainian: Вадим Георгійович Меллер) (1884 – 1962) was a Ukrainian and Soviet artist, known for his Avant-Garde Cubist, Constructivist, and Expressionist approach to painting, and his other creative work as a theatrical designer, book illustrator, and architect. In 1925, he was awarded a gold medal for the scenic design of the Berezil Theatre in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Art Deco) in Paris.
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Vadym Heorhiiovych Meller (Ukrainian: Вадим Георгійович Меллер) (1884 – 1962) was a Ukrainian and Soviet artist, known for his Avant-Garde Cubist, Constructivist, and Expressionist approach to painting, and his other creative work as a theatrical designer, book illustrator, and architect. In 1925, he was awarded a gold medal for the scenic design of the Berezil Theatre in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Art Deco) in Paris.
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Career From 1903 to 1908, Meller studied at Kyiv University. In 1905, he visited Geneva, Switzerland, where he took art lessons at the private school of Franz Roubaud. In 1908, on the recommendation of Roubaud, he continued his education at the private art school of drawing and painting of Heinrich Knirr in Munich, Germany. There, Meller met fellow student, Paul Klee, who introduced him to Der Blaue Reiter group. After graduating from Kyiv University with a degree in law, he acquired an artistic education in the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1908–1912. Meller stayed in close contact with Der Blaue Reiter group. During this time, he also met Wassily Kandinsky, with whom he became friends. Meller first started to exhibit his art after moving to Paris, where he joined the Société des Artistes Indépendants. At the same time he was a student of Antoine Bourdelle. In 1912–1914, together with Kazimir Malevich, Sonia Delaunay, Alexander Archipenko, and Aleksandra Ekster, he participated in a number of exhibitions (Salon des Indépendants, Spring Salon, and Salon D' Automne) alongside Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and André Derain. After returning to Kyiv in 1915, he worked at easel and monumental painting, graphic design, and costume…
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Related work Meller worked as an acting director of the Monumental Painting and Sculpture Institute of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR (1946–1948), a chief artist of the Kyiv Music Comedy Theater (1948–1953), and a chief artist of the Iv. Franko Kyiv Academic Theater (1953–1959).
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Personal Born in Saint Petersburg, Meller was the second son of a top official in the Ministry of Justice in the Russian Empire. His father, Heorhiy Meller, was a noble-born Swede; his mother, Helena Caruso, was half Italian and half Greek, and also from a noble family Meller married Nina Genke, a fellow avant-garde artist. He died in Kyiv in May 4, 1962.
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Vadym Meller's Expressive Constructivism, Olga Petrova, pp. 5–32, Catalog, an Exhibition Avant-Garde Adventures, National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), Kyiv, Ukraine, 2004. Vadym Meller:Missionary of Avant-Garde Scenic Design, Tetiana Rudenko, pp 46–68, book "Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s", Ukrainian Museum, New York, US, 2015. Vadim Meller, Zoya Kucherenko, Mistetstvo, Kyiv, 1975. Kyiv to Paris: Ukrainian Art in the European Avant-Garde, 1905-1930, publication By Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij, Department of German and Slavic Studies University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Zorya Fine Art, 2003. Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation, pp 3,5,11,219,229,257,264,299,415,426,430,492,497,501, etc. edited by Irena R. Makaryk., Virlana Tkacz., University of Toronto Press, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4426-4098-6. The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Europe, pp. 872–4,883,885, volume 1, Editor Don Rubin, Routledge, Inc., New York, US, 1994. Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930, contested memory, Vadym Meller and Sources of Inspiration in Theater, Myroslav Shkandrij, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2019 ISBN 978-1-61811-975-9.
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External links Avant-garde Adventures. Vadym Meller, Nina Genke-Meller, Nina Vetrova-Robinson. Kyiv, 2004 The Avant-Garde Costumes of Vadym Meller Biography on artinvestment.ru Encyclopedia of Ukraine on Vadym Meller Vadym Meller: Scenography Gallery Z. V. Kucherenko. Vadym Meller. Kyiv, 1975
