Alexander Alexandrovich Swedomski
Alexander Alexandrowitsch Swedomski ( Russian Александр Александрович Сведомский , born September 19, 1848 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † June 15, 1911 in Rome , Italy ) was a Russian genre and landscape painter .
Life
Swedomski grew up on the country estate of his aristocratic family, Savod Michailowski , a good forty kilometers outside the present-day city of Tchaikovsky ( Perm region in the Volga federal district ). Together with his brother Pawel , he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1870/1871 , where they were taught by the church and history painter Andreas Müller . In Düsseldorf they also met the painters Mihály von Munkácsy and Eduard Gebhardt , a history painter from the Düsseldorf School . In 1871 they moved to Munich , where they became a student of Carl Theodor von Piloty . In 1875 they went to Rome . However, they usually spent the summers at the Zavod Mikhailovsky country estate . In Rome Swedomski took part in the lively artistic life. His name appears in various contemporary memoirs. He married Anna Nikolajewna Kutukowa (1871-1925), a pianist and singer of Tatar origin, who gave birth to their daughter Anna Alexandrovna Swedomskaya (1898-1973), who became a musician and painter. Swedomski was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.
Works (selection)
- Shatra , 1890s
- City gate in Volterra, Etruria (homecoming with prisoners)
- Street in old Pompei , Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
literature
- Natalja Kazarinova: Chudožniki Svedomskie. Michajlovskij zavod - Rim - San Remo . In: Russkoe iskusstvo , 2004, No. 3
Web links
- Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Svedomskij , biography on the portal russinitalia.it
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 441
- ↑ Alexander Alexandrovich Svedomsky , data sheet in the findagrave.com portal , accessed on December 17, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swedomski, Alexander Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Сведомский, Александр Александрович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian genre and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1911 |
| Place of death | Rome , Italy |