Sunday, February 28, 2010

From the Netherlands Architecture Institute

From various collections at the Netherlands Architecture Institute's website.

H Klopma and JB Bakema, architectural firm Van den Broek and  Bakema, City on Pampus, drawing, 1964
City on Pampus, Megastructure, by H. Klopma and J.B. Bakema, from the architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema, drawing, 1964 [link]

J.M. de Casseres, Eindhoven city expansion map, 1930
Eindhoven city expansion - an expansion model based on a regional concept, J.M. de Casseres, 1930 [link]

Utrecht Music Society. Jupiter Amans. Schipbreuk (PJ C Klaarhamer 1924)
Utrecht Music Society, Jupiter Amans, Schipbreuk, PJ C Klaarhamer, 1924 [link]

Granpré Molière, Verhagen and Kok, Expansion plan for the Left Bank of the Maas, Rotterdam map, 1921
Expansion plan for the Left Bank of the Maas - Rotterdam map, Granpré Molière, Verhagen and Kok, 1921 [link]

Spring Clothing from Schocken Store (Johan Niegeman 1926)
Spring Clothing from Schocken Store, Johan Niegeman, 1926 [link]

Design drawing by W. la Croix for the cover of the magazine De 8 and Opbouw, 1937. NAI Collection - CROX
Cover of the magazine De 8 and Opbouw, W. la Croix, 1937 [link]

Design drawing by W. la Croix for the Holland America Line, n.d. NAI Collection - CROX
Holland America Line, W. la Croix, no date [link]


Poster for the seventh CIAM congress, Max Huber, 1949 [link]

Theo van Doesburg, De Stijl magazine, 1917
De Stijl magazine, Theo van Doesburg, 1917 [link]

Theo van Doesburg and architect Cornelis Van Eesteren, drawing,  1923
Contra-construction - Maison Particulière, Theo van Doesburg and architect Cornelis Van Eesteren, 1923 [link]

J.B. Bakema, Van stoel tot stad, book, 1964
Van stoel tot stad, book, J.B. Bakema, 1964 [link]

Architecture Exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright (H. Th. Wijdeveld 1931)
Architecture Exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright,H. Th. Wijdeveld, 1931 [link]

City Hall on the Amstel (Wim Brusse 1958)
City Hall on the Amstel, Wim Brusse, 1958 [link]

Rietveld (Jan Bons 1959)
Rietveld, Jan Bons, 1959 [link]

Design drawing by W. la Croix for the Metal Workers’ Union, 1927.  NAI Collection - CROX
Metal Workers’ Union, W. la Croix, 1927 [link]

Piet Blom, Dwelling as an urban roof, collage, 1965
Dwelling as an urban roof, collage, Piet Blom, 1965 [link]

Design drawing for name stamp G.F. la Croix and J.M. van der Mey, 1906. NAI Collection
Design drawing for name stamp, G.F. la Croix and J.M. van der Mey, 1906 [link]

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all images come from the Netherlands Architecture Institute's website [link]

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov Theatre Posters

I came across a worn Russian book of Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov’s theatre posters, called Teatralʹnyĭ plakat N. Akimova. The book was published in Moscow in 1963 and is now out-of-print, but can be found at a few libraries in the US, UK, and Japan. Below are some of my favorites. EDIT - Huge thanks to Ingvar for providing the below translations.

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The Labyrinth

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (1901 – 1968) was a "Russian stage designer, director, painter and graphic artist of Ukranian birth. He studied in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) from 1915 to 1919 in an artists' workshop under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Aleksandr Yakovlev and Vasily Shukhayev. From 1920 to 1922 he worked as a stage designer in Khar'kov (now Kharkiv). In 1923 he returned to Petrograd, where he worked as a book illustrator and stage designer at the Theatre of Musical Comedy, the Theatre of Drama and the Gor'ky Bol'shoy Theatre of Drama; he also worked in Moscow, at the Theatre of the Revolution, the Vakhtangov Theatre and the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). From 1929 he worked as a director, designing his own productions. He was the Art Director of the Leningrad Theatre of Comedy (1935-49), where the most notable productions he directed and designed were Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1938), Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger and Widow of Valencia (1939) and Yevgeny Shvarts's The Shadow (1946), among others. From 1951 to 1955 Akimov was the artistic director of the Leningrad Soviet Theatre; Shadows (by Saltykov-Shchedrin) and The Case (by Sukhovo-Kobylin) stand out among the productions he directed and designed there. From 1955 to the end of his life he was at the Leningrad Theatre of Comedy as Artistic Director; among his best productions there were Shvarts's An Ordinary Miracle (1956) and The Dragon (1962), and Motley Stories (1960) after Chekhov."-answers.com

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The Hunter, 1956

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1905

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Dictatorship

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3 Minute Talk

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The Profiteer

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Night Shindy

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov 9
Trees Die Upright

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The Suitcase

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Seat Nr. 16

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The Salesmen of Glory

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The Tragic Story of Hamlet the Danish Prince

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Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov
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brief biography at answers.com [link]
@ worldcat [link]
more posters at Museum of Russian Poster [link]
more of his work at Russian Art & Books [link]
see more from the book at my flickr page [link]
 
*please cite or link when reposting*