Klut︠s︡is, Gustav Gustavovich, 1895-1944

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Name (Hebrew)
קלציוס, גוסטב, 1895-1938
Name (Latin)
Klut︠s︡is, Gustav Gustavovich, 1895-1944
Other forms of name
Klucis, Gustavs, 1895-1944
Klut︠s︡is, G. G. (Gustav Gustavovich), 1895-1944
קלציוס, גוסטב, 1895-1944
Date of birth
1895
Date of death
1938-02-26
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 27871791
Wikidata: Q1341721
Library of congress: n 86058387
HAI10: 000163216
Sources of Information
  • Oginskai︠a︡, L. Gustav Klut︠s︡is, 1981:t.p. (Gustav Klut︠s︡is)p. 164, etc. (Gustav Gustavovich Klut︠s︡is, G. G. Klut︠s︡is, b. 1/4(16)/1895, d. 1944, Klucis Gustavs)
  • Email from MoU, July 20, 2004(Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina, 2003: p. 247: Klutsis was arrested in 1938 and executed 3 weeks later)
  • Klutsis and Kalagina Web site, July 21, 2004(Gustav Klutsis; b. Latvia, 1895; arrested in 1938; killed not long after his arrest at the Butovo prison near Moscow; Kulagina believed the official version of Klutsis' death that claimed he died of a heart attack in prison in 1944)
  • The chairman smiles--Designers Web site, July 1, 2004(Gustav Gustavovich Klutsis (1895-1938/1944); arrested in 1938 on the accusation of membership of a right-wing Latvian organization, and either executed soon afterwards or deported to a concentration camp in Central Asia and died there in 1944)
  • Union list of artists names online, July 21, 2004(Klucis, Gustav; Latvian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist, 1895-1944)
  • Grove art online, July 21, 2004(Klucis, Gustav [Klutsis, Gustav (Gustavovich)]; b. Rŭjiena, Latvia, 4 Jan. 1895; d, Siberia, 1944)
  • Biog. & geneal. master index, July 21, 2004(Klutsis, Gustav Gustavovich (1895-1944))
  • In 1956 his family heard that he had died of heart failure in a labour camp in 1944. It was not until 1989 that they were informed that he had in fact been shot in Moscow on 26 February 1938. ( (Kunstmuseum Den Haag website, viewed 30-05-2021:) )
  • הניצחון על השמש, 2018:האמנים: קורות חיים (גוסטב קלוציוס)
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Wikipedia description:

Gustav Gustavovich Klutsis (Latvian: Gustavs Klucis, Russian: Густав Густавович Клуцис; 4 January 1895 – 26 February 1938) was a pioneering Latvian photographer and major member of the Constructivist avant-garde in the early 20th century. He is known for the Soviet revolutionary and Stalinist propaganda he produced with his wife Valentina Kulagina and for the development of photomontage techniques.

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