Editing Alexander Archipenko (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Alexander Archipenko, La Vie Familiale (Family Life), Salon d'Automne, 1912.jpg|thumb|left|''La Vie Familiale'' (''Family Life''), 1912, height approx. {{convert|6|ft|m}}. Exhibited at the 1912 [[Salon d'Automne]], Paris and the 1913 [[Armory Show]] in New York City, Chicago and Boston. Photograph from ''Comœdia Illustré'' (1912) of the original sculpture, later accidentally destroyed]]

Alexander Archipenko was born in [[Kyiv]] ([[Russian Empire]], now [[Ukraine]]) in 1887, to Porfiry Antonowych Archipenko and Poroskowia Vassylivna Machowa Archipenko; he was the younger brother of [[Eugene Archipenko]].

From 1902 to 1905 he attended the [[Kyiv Art School]] (KKhU). In 1906 he continued his education in the arts at [[Serhiy Svetoslavsky]] (Kyiv), and later that year had an exhibition there with [[Alexander Bogomazov]]. He then moved to [[Moscow]] where he had a chance to exhibit his work in some group shows.

Archipenko moved to [[Paris]] in 1908<ref name="AAA"/> and quickly enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts, which he left after a few weeks.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alexander Archipenko|url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/archipenko-alexander/|access-date=27 July 2022}}</ref> He was a resident in the artist's colony [[La Ruche (residence)|La Ruche]], among [[émigré]] Ukrainian artists: [[Vladimir Baranov-Rossine|Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine]], [[Sonia Delaunay|Sonia Delaunay-Terk]], and [[Nathan Altman]]. After 1910 he had exhibitions at ''[[Société des Artistes Indépendants|Salon des Indépendants]]'', ''[[Salon d'Automne]]'' together with [[Aleksandra Ekster]], [[Kazimir Malevich]], [[Vadym Meller]], [[Sonia Delaunay|Sonia Delaunay-Terk]], [[Georges Braque]], [[André Derain]], and others.

In 1912, Archipenko had his first personal exhibition at the [[Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum|Museum Folkwang]] at [[Hagen]] in [[German Empire|Germany]], and from 1912 to 1914 he was teaching at his own Art School in [[Paris]].

[[File:Alexander Archipenko, 1912.jpg|thumb|Untitled, 1912, published in Action, ''Cahiers individualistes de philosophie et d'art'', October 1920]]
[[File:Alexander Archipenko, 1913, Recherche de plastique, 1913. Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, Berlin, 1913, postcard.jpg|thumb|''Recherche de plastique'', 1913. Exhibited at [[Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon]], [[Berlin]], 1913, an exhibition organized by [[Herwarth Walden]] (Galerie [[Der Sturm]]), including [[Jean Metzinger|Metzinger]], [[Robert Delaunay|Delaunay]], [[Albert Gleizes|Gleizes]], [[Fernand Léger|Léger]], [[Louis Marcoussis|Marcoussis]] and [[Picabia]]]]
Four of Archipenko's [[Cubist sculpture]]s, including ''Family Life'' and five of his drawings, appeared in the controversial ''[[Armory Show]]'' in 1913 in [[New York City]]. These works were caricatured in the [[New York World]].<ref>Donald H. Karshan, ''Archipenko, Content and Continuity 1908–1963'', Kovlan Gallery, Chicago, 1968. p. 40.</ref>

Archipenko moved to [[Nice]] in 1914. In 1920 he participated in ''[[Venice Biennale|Twelfth Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte di Venezia]]'' in [[Italy]] and started his own Art school in [[Berlin]] the following year. In 1922 Archipenko participated in the ''[[First Russian Art Exhibition]]'' in the [[Galerie van Diemen|Gallery van Diemen]] in Berlin together with Aleksandra Ekster, Kazimir Malevich, [[Solomon Nikritin]], [[El Lissitzky]], and others.

In 1923, he emigrated to the United States.<ref name="AAA"/> He became a U.S. citizen in 1929. In 1933 he exhibited at the Ukrainian pavilion in [[Chicago]] as part of the [[Century of Progress]] World's Fair. Archipenko contributed the most to the success of the Ukrainian pavilion. His works occupied one room and were valued at $25,000.<ref>Halich, W. (1937) ''Ukrainians in the United States'', Chicago {{ISBN|0-405-00552-0}}</ref>

In 1936 Archipenko participated in an exhibition ''Cubism and Abstract Art'' in [[New York City|New York]] as well as numerous exhibitions across [[Europe]] and other places in the U.S. He was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] in 1962.<ref name=AAAL>{{cite web|title=Deceased Members |url=http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |work=American Academy of Arts and Letters |access-date=July 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726004624/http://www.artsandletters.org/academicians2_deceased.php |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Alexander Archipenko died on February 25, 1964, in New York City.<ref name="AAA"/> He is interred at [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)|Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx]], New York City.