Anna Andreeva (artist)

Anna Andreeva (Russian: Анна Алексеевна Андреева) (August 17, 1917 – February 27, 2008) was a Russian textile designer. Andreeva was a leading artist at the Red Rose Silk Factory in Moscow from 1946 until 1984.[1]

Anna Andreeva
Born
Anna Alexeevna Prasolova

(1917-08-17)17 August 1917
Tambov, Russian Empire
Died27 February 2008(2008-02-27) (aged 90)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian
Known forTextile design
Awards
  • Repin's All-Union Prise for the textile design: "Borodino" 1961
  • Lenin's All Union Award for the textile design "Moscow streets" 1959

Career

Andreeva's textile designs for mass production, "Cubes", "Olympics”,[2] “Urban Grid”, “Soviet Sport”, and “Soviet Cosmos,” were among the most popular prints distributed within Socialist Republics in the 1960s and 1970s[3] and were often published in the magazine Decorative Arts of the USSR (Dekorativnoe Iskusstvo SSSR).[4][5]

She is also the author of the iconic Soviet optical geometric and floral prints that were presented at the International Textile Exhibitions and even traded by the Soviet government to French and Italian textile industries. Beyond her extensive work for mass production, Andreeva was often called to prepare exclusive designs for governmental purposes. Silk shawls after her drawings were presented Soviet official delegations to the political leaders of other countries as part of cultural diplomacy. Her work “Cosmos”, dedicated to the first man in space Yuri Gagarin, was an official present to the Queen Elizabeth II during Nikita Khrushchev’s first visit to the United Kingdom in 1961. Her design for the World Congress of Women became a symbol of the Fifth World Congress of Women, Moscow, July 24–29, 1963. During the 60s Andreeva created several designs for the International Movie Festival in Moscow.[6][7]

Her series "Electrification," which included large geometric tapestries, served as the central objects at the All Union Exhibition of the Fortieth Anniversary of the October Revolution at the Saint Petersburg Manege. Her work is also known as the Soviet analogue of Optical Art.[8] Andreeva's designs represented the Soviet textile industry at Expo 1967 in Montreal. Along with Soviet costume designer Alla Levasheva, Andreeva constructed a special exhibition platform of Soviet textile ideas at Expo 1970 in Tokyo.[9][10]

Exhibition "History of Fashion", VDNKH, 2015
Еxhibition "The Thaw", Museum of Moscow, 2017
Еxhibition "Moscow Fabrics", Museum of Moscow, 2019


Andreeva held several key positions in the Artists' Union of the USSR, which she joined in 1946. From 1960 to 1970 she was the head of its Textile and Decorative Arts section. She was also in charge of establishing networks for the textile industry and silk production within the Socialist Bloc. She supervised artistic committees at silk factories in Central Asia, Georgia, Armenia, and the Urals, as well as sanatoriums for the Union.[11][12]

Early life and education

Born into a wealthy family of Russian merchants, Anna Andreeva left home at the age of 12 and moved to study in Moscow. Prior to entering the Moscow Textile Institute, Andreeva attended the Rabfak School of Workers. She entered the lab of Vladimir Favorsky and Igor Grabar.

  • "Glory to the first cosmonaut". Design for commemorative silk scarf to be donated to Queen Elizabeth II, 1961.
  • "Moscow Urban Scale" Design for Textile, Moscow, 1964.
  • "Moscow Olympics" Design for children's textile on the occasion of the Moscow Summer Olympics, 1980.
  • "Cubes" Design for Textile
  • World Congress of Women, Moscow, 1963. Design for commemorative silk scarf.

Awards and honors
  • Repin's All-Union Prise for the textile design: “Borodino” 1961
  • Lenin's All Union Award for the textile design “Moscow streets” 1959
  • Andreeva's designs for textile are in the Collections: State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, Tzarizyno State Gallery Moscow

Personal

Her spouse was Boris Andreev (1916-1996), a Soviet scientist and engineer.

References
  1. Exhibition “History of fashion: from avant-garde to GOST”, VDNH Exhibitions & Events, 2015
  2. MoMA artist collection, Moma.org. 2018
  3. "Thaw"- a fantastic experiment", Onscenes.weebly.com, 14 Feb 2017
  4. Alpatova I.A. “New in textile”. Decorative Arts in the USSR magazine, Moscow, 1961 , №5, p. 9.
  5. Kaplan N. “Story line drawings in textile design”. Decorative Arts in the USSR magazine, Moscow, 1961, №11, p. 19-24.
  6. Alpatova I.A. “About the composition of a textile drawing”. Decorative Arts in the USSR magazine, Moscow, 1964, №2, p. 15-19.
  7. Derzhavin B., Pestel S. “Story line in the textile drawing”. Decorative Arts in the USSR magazine, Moscow, 1961, №2, p. 13-15.
  8. Catalogue of the exhibition of Elia Belutin’s Studio “From Manezh to Manezh”, Moscow, Soviet Artist, 1990.
  9. Goff S. «Fabric Cybernetics», tribunemag.co.uk, Aug 23, 2020
  10. Mak I. «How did the design of the soviet textile emerged as an art», vedomosti.ru, Oct 30, 2019
  11. Guseva K. «Anna Andreeva and her experimental designs», russianartandculture.com, 13 Sep 2018
  12. Kishkovsky S. «From textile factory to MoMA», Russian Art Focus, 12 issue , Nov. 2019

Further reading
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