Alexander Petrovich Basilewski

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Alexander Petrovich Basilewski

Alexander Petrowitsch Basilewski , usually Alexander Basilewsky ( Russian Александр Петрович Базилевский ; * 1829 ; † 1899 ), was a Russian art collector, patron and diplomat .

Life

After graduating from Moscow University and traveling in Asia and Europe, he worked for the Tsar in a number of political offices. After his father moved to Paris, he settled in Paris with his wife and child from 1860 onwards , where he built up a unique art collection which he set up in a gallery in his house. He also donated and sold works again and again, valuable pieces that passed through his hand can be found in museums around the world today. In 1850 he was able to acquire pieces from the collection of Louis Fidel Debruge Duménil , the Soltikoff collection and the collection of Count Pourtalès . In 1874, together with his friend, the curator of the Louvre and later director of the Musée de Cluny , Alfred Darcel (1818-1893), he published a catalog with 561 descriptions, and for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 he exhibited valuable pieces from his collection. In 1884 he wanted to auction the collection, but Tsar Alexander III. shortly before that, bought the entire collection for 6,000,000 francs. Since then it has been an integral part of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

Catalog

  • Alfred Darcel, Alexander Basilewsky: Collection Basilewsky. Catalog raisonné, précédé d'un essai sur les arts industriels du Ier au XVIe siècle. Paris, A. Morel et Cie, 1874

literature

  • Marta Janovna Kryžanovskaja: Alexander Petrovich Basilevsky. A great collector of medieval and Renaissance works of art. In: Journal of the History of Collections 2, 1990, pp. 143-155.
  • Klaus Mangold, The Cross from St. Trudpert in Münstertal / Black Forest in the St. Petersburg State Hermitage with photographs by Molodkovec Jurij, St. Petersburg State Hermitage, Munich, Hirmer 2003, ISBN 3-7774-9910-2 .
  • Tesori medievali e rinascimentali della collezione Basilewsky custoditi al Museo Ermitage. Torino, Palazzo Madama, marzo - giungo 2013. Turin 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the collection on the Hermitage website
personal data
SURNAME Basilewski, Alexander Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Basilewsky, Alexander; Bazilevskii, Aleksandr Petrovich (English); Basilewsky, Aleksandr P .; Базилевский, Александр Петрович (Russian-Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat and collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1829
DATE OF DEATH 1899
Place of death Paris