'Stadium', figure 212 from Fundamental Principles of Contemporary Architecture, 1930

Born in Pavlograd in 1899 and died in Moscow in 1951, Andrei Georgievich Chemijov is a somewhat unusual character in the panorama of Russian Constructivism. Before the October Revolution, he studied at the Odessa Art School, while working in some craft workshops. Already in 1912, due to his graphic skills, he began to offer his services as a draftsman by the hour. In 1914 he moved to Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg), where he studied at the Faculties of Painting and Pedagogy, and later taught drawing in high schools...[+]