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Tatiana Bruni (1902-2001) was a renowned Russian painter, theater designer and graphic artist.
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Tatiana Bruni made many outstanding theater sets and costumes for the famous Mariinsky and Alexandrinsky Opera and Ballet houses in St. Petersburg.
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Her works are currently on display at
the Russian Cultural Centre in Washington DC. This is a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of her work previously unseen.
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The works are from the private collection of another famous Russian artist and close friend of Tatiana Bruni.
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Some of her artwork depicts performances by the Kirov Ballet, which had to relocate to Perm during the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944).
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She was instrumental in developing the famous Constructivist Art Movement in the early days of the Soviet Union.
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Her costume sketches for Dmitryi Shostakovich’s ballet “Bolt” represented the last wave of avant-garde in USSR, which is why a later exhibition in Milan dedicated to avant-garde art was called: “From Malevich to Bruni” (Kazemir Malevich is one of the most radical and significant figures in modern art, who created a new visual language called Suprematism).
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Sketch of a ballerina’s costume for the ballet “Sleeping Beauty,” composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Mariinsky (Kirov) Theatre of Opera and Ballet (St. Petersburg) evacuated to Perm, 1943.
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Ballerina’s costume for the ballet “Don Quixote,” originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the score of Ludwig Minkus for St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre (1943)
