Nikolaj Haruzin in Vasilij Kandinski

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Prispevek predstavlja stike med ruskim etnografom Nikolajem Haruzinom in slovitim slikarjem Vasilijem Kandinskim. Ta je v svoji ustvarjalnosti uporabil številne šamanske motive. Pri tem ni šlo za modnost ali strast do eksotičnega, temveč za globoke sledi v osebnostnem razvoju, biografiji in pogledu na svet. Že kot študent se je poglobljeno zanimal za šamanstvo ljudstev na ruskem severu in v Sibiriji, in to prav pod Haruzinovim vplivom. Prijatelja sta postala že 1885, ko sta začela oba študirati na moskovski pravni fakulteti, se v času študija udeležila znanstvenih odprav. Po študiju se je Kandinski odločil za slikarstvo in šel 1896 v München v zasebno slikarsko šolo A. Ažbeta, Haruzin pa je deloval kot etnograf. Tudi po Haruzinovi zgodnji smrti leta 1900 je Kandinski ohranil stike z njegovo družino in njegovim delom. Zlasti Haruzinova monografija Russkie Lopari (Ruski Laponci), učbenik Etnografiya (Etnografija) in druge Haruzinove raziskave šamanstva so nedvomno močno vplivale na njegovo umetniško ustvarjalnost. V prilogi je objavljenih 12 Kandinskijevih pisem prijatelju.

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The paper presents personal and scholarly relations between the Russian ethnographer N. N. Kharuzin and the famous Russian painter W. Kandinsky. Kandinsky used shamanistic motifs in his creative works. This was not a tribute to fashion or a passion for exotica: shamanistic motifs had deep roots in his personal genealogy and biography, and his mindset. As a student he was deeply interested in shamanism of the people of the Russian nord and Siberia. This interest was influenced by Kharuzin. They became friends in 1885, when both entered the faculty of law in Moscow, and while at university they took part in scientific expeditions. After the study Kandinsky decided to devote himself to painting and moved to Munich in 1896, where he entered the private art school of A. Ažbe, and Kharuzin worked as an ethnographer. After Kharuzin’s death in 1900, Kandinsky maintained contacts with his family and with his work. Especially Kharuzin's monograph Russkie Lopari (Russian Saami), the textbook Etnografiya (Ethnography) and Kharuzin's research in shamanism undoubtedly affected Kandinsky's artistic creativity. In the appendix twelve letters written by Kandinsky to Kharuzin are published.