Anna Aleksandrovna Kogan (1902–1974) was a Soviet artist. She was a modernist who worked in several media, including painting, textiles, ceramics, glass and sculpture.
Biography
Kogan was born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire in 1902.
From 1919 to 1922 Kogan studied at the Higher Art School of Vitebsk under Kazimir Malevich, where she was one of his favourite students. She was part of the group UNOVIS, which focused on suprematist art and produced projects and publications which influenced the avant-garde in Russia. In 1924 she joined the architectural deartment of the Institute of Artistic Culture, Leningrad.
Kogan died in Leningrad in 1974.
In 2009, Artnews reported that she was an "enigma to art historians", due to a lack of biographical history and the fact that none of her works appeared in Russian Art Museums.
Her work is included in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Seattle Art Museum.
References
- Rakitin, Vasily. (2013) "Anna Kagan" in Rakitin, Vasily and Sarabianov, Andrei eds. Encyclopedia of the Russian Avant-Garde, Volume 1 (in Russian). Moscow: RA. p. 400.
- ^ Gimpelevich, Zina (2023-02-06). Biełarusian Fine Art: Time and Time Again: Origin, History, Discourse, and Biographies. FriesenPress. pp. 84–85. ISBN 978-1-0391-5878-8.
- ^ "Ontdek graficus, ontwerper, schilder Anna Aleksandrovna Kagan". rkd.nl.
- Shatskikh, Aleksandra Semenovna (2007-01-01). Vitebsk: The Life of Art. Yale University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-300-10108-9.
- "Black Square: In the Circle of Malevich and UNOVIS Group". Howard Schickler Fine Art. Archived from the original on 11 March 2005. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- Konstantin, Akinsha (1 July 2009). "The Faking of the Russian Avant-Garde". Artnews.
- "Anna Kogan". FAMSF Search the Collections. September 21, 2018.
- "Suprematist Composition". Seattle Art Museum. Retrieved 7 January 2025.