Alexander Terentjewitsch Matvejew

Alexander Terentjewitsch Matvejew (early 1910s)

Alexander Matveyev Terentievich ( Russian Александр Терентьевич Матвеев * August 13 ^{. Jul} / 25. August  1878 ^greg. In Saratov ; † 22. October 1960 in Moscow ) was a Russian sculptor and university lecturer .

Life

After attending the city school, Matveev worked in the Saratov city administration as a clerk and accountant (1896–1899). He also studied at the Saratov Art School, founded by Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov and opened in 1897, and took lessons in the studio of the Saratov Society of Friends of the Fine Arts. It was there that his friendship began with Pavel Warfolomejewitsch Kuznetsov , Kusma Sergejewitsch Petrow-Vodkin , Alexei Jeremejewitsch Karew , Alexander Ivanovich Savinov and Pyotr Savvich Utkin . In art school he gave modeling lessons to blind children .

In 1899 Matwejew went to Moscow and studied as a guest student at the Moscow Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUSchWS) with Sergei Ivanovich Ivanov and Paolo Troubetzkoy . In 1900 he took on the recommendation of Viktor Elpidiforowitsch Borissow-Mussatows at the XXIII. Exhibition of the students of the MUSchWS. In 1901 he left the college with a silver medal without defending a thesis. At the XXIV exhibition of the students of the MUSchWS in 1901 he received a cash prize from Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov . On the III. Exhibition of Mir Iskusstwa he exhibited a ceramic sculpture .

In 1901 Matveev began to work as a modeller in Sawwa Ivanovich Mamontov's pottery factory in Abramzewo . After Mamontov's bankruptcy , Mamontov moved the Abramzewoer pottery workshop to Moscow, which was headed by Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Vrubel . There Matveev created portraits of Paolo Troubetzkoy, Fyodor Ivanovich Chalyapin, the MUSchWS director AJ Lwow, the actress Tatiana Spiridonovna Lyubatowitsch , Savva Mamontov and others. 1902–1903 Matvejew worked in St. Petersburg on the design of the exhibition rooms for the contemporary art company, alongside Albert Nikolajewitsch Benois , Igor Emmanuilowitsch Grabar , Alexander Jakowlewitsch Golowin , Konstantin Alexejewitsch Korowin , JJ Lansere, Artemi Lavrentjewitsch Ober and Stepan Petrowitsch . In 1903 Matveev took part in the exhibition of Mir Iskusstva in St. Petersburg. In 1905 Matveev worked in Opischnja in the factory of the merchant and ceramist Pyotr Kuzmich Waulin , who greatly influenced Matveev's further work. In Moscow he took part in the XII. Exhibition of the Moscow Artists' Cooperative.

In 1906 Matveev, with the support of Vasily Dmitrijewitsch Polenov, received a scholarship from the J.-D.-Polenowa Foundation, with which he went to Paris to perfect his education . There he worked with Alissa Jakowlewna Bruschetti, who married the graphic artist Dmitri Issidorowitsch Mitrochin in 1910 , and other sculptors in private studios and also in Paolo Troubetzkoy's studio. He participated in the Paris exhibition of Russian art. At the same time, one of his sculptures was shown at the Berlin exhibition of Russian art and another at the Moscow art exhibition. He took part in exhibitions of the Blue Rose symbolist group in 1907 and 1908.

From 1907 Matvejew worked in Kikerino ( Leningrad Oblast ) in the ceramics factory of Waulin and OO Goldbein with his own studio (until 1912). In addition, he made his own sculptures from solid materials (until 1917). He created majolica reliefs for the facade of the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt . 1908–1912 he decorated the park of the Kuchuk-Koi country estate of the philologist , state official in the Ministry of Finance and Wrubel admirer Yakov Yevgenyevich Zhukovsky with a cycle of allegorical sculptures in the Crimea near Yalta . In 1909, Matveyev's works were exhibited in the Paris Salon d'Automne . 1910–1912 he created portrait sculptures and completed the monument to Borissow-Mussatow, which was erected on his grave in Tarussa in 1911 . In 1911 he took part in the exhibitions of the Mir Iskusstwa (Moscow, St. Petersburg) and the Jack of Diamonds group.

When the studio in Kikerino was assigned to production in 1912, Matveev now lived and worked in St. Petersburg. At the suggestion of his friend Wladimir Konstantinowitsch Stanjukowitsch , he made a series of heart portraits for Alexander Ivanovich's 100th birthday. He created models for a frieze and a reclining lion ( architect Stepan Samoilowitsch Kritschinski ) for the country estate of Countess Jelisaweta Andrejewna Voronzowa-Daschkowa in Pargolowo ( Vyborg Rajon , St. Petersburg ). For the Church of the Savior and the Transfiguration of the sugar manufacturer and patron Pawel Ivanovich Kharitonenko at his country residence Nataljewka near Kharkov , which was built according to Alexei Viktorovich Shtusev's plans by Alexei Mikhailovich Ruchlyadew and set up as an icon museum , while Matveev and Sergei Timofelleyov took on the interior decoration Mosaic on the entrance wall after a drawing by Nicholas Roerich was executed. In 1913, Matveev traveled to Italy and visited Rome , Naples and Florence . In 1914 he married Soja Jakowlewna Mostowa (1884–1972). 1914–1916 he worked on studies for Charitonenko's tomb, which was not realized.

After the October Revolution , Matveev became a professor at the Petrograd Central School for Technical Drawing (founded in 1876 by Baron Alexander von Stieglitz ). Among his students were Kārlis Zāle and Vladimir Jefimowitsch Zigal . At the suggestion of the People's Commissar for Education Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Lunacharsky , Matveev was accepted into the Commission for the Protection of Palaces, along with Alexei Eremejewitsch Karew, Sergei Vasiljewitsch Chechonin and Natan Issajewitsch Altman . Matveev was elected by the sculptors to the provisional committee for the establishment of the Union of Artists. He also worked on a portrait of Stanyukovich. In 1918 he became a professor at the sculpture - Faculty of previous Imperial Academy of Arts elected, called the State is now free art workshop, and in the Council of the Central School of Technical Drawing. He was a member of the Art College at the Performing Arts Department of the People's Commissariat for Education and was instrumental in realizing Lenin's plan for Monomental Propaganda. On the first anniversary of the October Revolution, he erected a Karl Marx monument in front of the Smolny Institute . In 1922 he tried to improve art education. In 1923 his work was shown at the first art exhibition in Berlin . He developed a model of a female nude that was mass-produced in the Lomonossow porcelain factory in the 1920s and 1930s and was very popular. In 1924, Matveyev received an honorary diploma at the 14th Venice Biennale , and a sculpture by Matveyev was shown at the Russian Art Exhibition in New York City . In 1925 he won a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris. He participated in competitions and regularly in exhibitions. In 1939 he was promoted to a doctorate in art studies and professor at the chair for sculpture. 1939–1940 he completed work on his self-portrait.

In 1941, after the beginning of the German-Soviet War , Matveev was evacuated from Leningrad to Moscow and then to Samarqand with the professors and students of the Art Academy . In 1942 he worked on a project for a monument to Mir ʿAli Schir Nawāʾi . On the way back from Samarqand to Leningrad, he initially only came as far as Sagorsk , where he lived in 1944. He then stayed in Moscow and taught sculpture in the Moscow and Leningrad institutes. For his 25 years of teaching, he was awarded the Order of the Red Labor Banner . In 1945 he created a portrait of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and a model for his memorial. In 1946 he received the medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and participated in the project for a Lermontov monument by creating a portrait and suggesting two variants for the monument.

In 1948 Matveev was heavily criticized by the leading representatives of socialist realism Yevgeny Viktorovich Wuchetich and Sair Asgur , as well as Pavel Kuznetsov, Vladimir Andreyevich Faworsky and many others. 1948–1960 Matveev continued to work on Pushkin and Lenin sculptures. In 1956, Matveyev's works were exhibited at the 28th Venice Biennale. In 1960 he was a delegate at the first meeting of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR in Moscow.

Matveev was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Works

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  Calming, Tretyakov Gallery (1905)

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  Lion, Pargolowo (1912)

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  Bas-relief medallions on Charitonenko's Church of the Savior Transfiguration, Nataljewka (1912)

Web links

Commons : Alexander Terentjewitsch Matvejew  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Матвеев Александр Терентьевич.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Бассехес А. И .: Александр Терентьевич Матвеев . Советский художник, Moscow 1960.
3. ↑ Мурина Елена Борисовна: Александр Матвеев . Советский художник, Moscow 1979.
4. ↑ Государственная Третьяковская галерея: Каталог собрания. Т. 3. Скульптура второй половины XX века. « Красная площадь » . Moscow 1998, ISBN 5-900743-39-X .
5. ↑ Государственный Русский музей представляет: Александр Матвеев и его школа. Альманах. Вып. 84 . Palace Editions, St. Petersburg 2005, ISBN 5-93332-167-2 .
6. ↑ Naschtschokina MW : Московская “ Голубая роза ” и крымский “ Новый Кучук-Кой ” . In: Русская усадьба. Сборник Общества изучения русской усадьбы (ОИРУ) . tape 21 , no. 5 , 1999 ( svidetel.su [accessed March 11, 2018]).