Interior view of Meyerhold Theater showing a scene from the Griboedov's "Verstand bringt Leiden" [Misery from Wit], Moscow

People:

Unknown (photographer)
El Lissitzky (painter (artist))

Title:

Interior view of Meyerhold Theater showing a scene from the Griboedov's "Verstand bringt Leiden" [Misery from Wit], Moscow

Date:

April 1936

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 14.6 x 21.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:0974

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

labelled, numbered, inscribed and dated - in typescript, on a paper label attached to the print, c.: "870, 871, 872... / " Verstand bringt Leiden" von Gribojedow in Meyerhold - Theater / in Moskau. [underlined] / Im Moskauer Staatlichen Meyerhold-Theater wird das unsterbiliche / Lustspiel A.S. Gribojedows "Verstand bringt Leiden" in der Inszenierung / des Volkskünstlers der Republik W.S. Meyerhold aufgeführt. Bühnenbild- / W. Schestakow. / Diese Komödie, die die Sitten des Moskauer Adels aus d er Epoche nach / den Napoleon-Kriegen zeichnet, ist in die Geschichte der russischen / Literatur als eines der grössten satirischen Werke eingegangen. / id. H."; and on a paper label attached to the print and paper label, l.c.: "16.4.1936 - 4 / Sojusfoto Nr. In-875 (Foto Sternberg)+ / April 1936 / B.z. 13.Episode aus dem III. Bild: Die Auseinandersetzung zwis chen / Tschazki und Sofia. (Zarew und Cheraskowa) / id. H." stamped - in purple ink, on the print, verso, u.l.: "PRINTED IN THE / UNION OF SOVIET / SOCIALIST REPUBLICS"; and u.r.: "COPYRIGHT BY / UNIONBILD AMSTERDAM, / PRODUKTION: SOJUSFOTO MOSKA" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, l.l.: "$ 100."

Location:

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture
theatre design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

theatre

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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