Dmitri Semjonowitsch Stellezki
Dmitri Semjonowitsch Stellezki ( Russian Дмитрий Семёнович Стеллецкий , French Dmitri Stelletsky ; born January 1 July / January 13, 1875 greg. In Brest , Russian Empire ; died February 12, 1947 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois , France ) was a Russian sculptor, set designer, architect, illustrator and painter. He lived in France since 1914.
Life
Stellezki came from the big bourgeoisie in the tsarist empire, his father was a big landowner. In 1896 his parents moved to St. Petersburg , where he received an artistic training at the Russian Art Academy . Stellezki was interested in the art of ancient Russia and the folklore of the Russian Empire and made several study trips through the country. He was friends with the painter Boris Anrep , who was Anna Akhmatova's childhood sweetheart and who later also emigrated. Stellezki designed, among other things, costumes for the Ballets Russes in 1909 . Later he also turned to icon painting .
Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, Stellezki stayed in France, and from there he did not return to Russia due to the Russian Revolution in 1917, but lived among the Russian exiles in France until his death. He lived in Paris from 1914 to 1918 and in Cannes until 1927 . Between 1925 and 1927 he painted the inside and outside of the building of the Saint-Serge church, which was acquired by the Russian Orthoxes in Paris . Until the end of 1943 he lived in La Napoule , where his studio was destroyed by the effects of the war, then in Paris and finally in the Maison Russe in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, where he was buried on the Cimetière russe .
Web links
- Literature by and about Dmitrij Semenovič Stelleckij in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Dimitri Stelletsky , at bibliophilierusse.blogspirit (fr)
- Michel Mikhailovitch Ossorguine: Dimitri Stelletsky: "J'ai commencé à peindre l'église Saint Serge le vendredi 6 novembre 1925. J'ai terminé le jeudi 1 December 1927" , obituary, March 1947, at: parlons d'orthodoxie (fr)
Individual evidence
- ^ Transliteration at DNB: Dmitrij Semenovič Stelleckij
- ↑ Stelletsky, Dmitry , at Art-Belarus
- ^ Ballet based on the opera Das Mädchen aus Pskow by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow 1909. See The Maid of Pskov , at the red list
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stellezki, Dmitri Semjonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stelletsky, Dmitri Semionovitch (French); Stelleckij, Dmitrij Semënovič (transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian sculptor, set designer, architect, illustrator and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brest (Belarus) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1947 |
| Place of death | Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne) |