Anatoly Dmitrievich Kaigorodov

Anatoly Dmitrievich Kaigorodow ( Russian Анатолий Дмитриевич Кайгородов ; born October 21 ^{. Jul} / 2. November  1878 ^{. Greg} in St. Petersburg ; † 18th July 1945 in Mondsee ) was a Russian - Estonian landscape painter .

Life

Anatoli Kaigorodow, son of forestry scientist Dmitri Nikiforowitsch Kaigorodow (1846-1924), studied from 1896 to 1900 in St. Petersburg at the Baron Stieglitz - Drawing School . He then studied from 1900 to 1902 at the Russian Art Academy with Archip Ivanovich Kuindschi and Wassili Wassiljewitsch Maté . His first pictures were shown at the St. Petersburg Academy Exhibition in 1900. From 1902 to 1904 he studied in the Munich studio of Simon Hollósy and in 1905 in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi .

Kaigorodow mainly painted landscapes in oil and tempera . He was a member and exhibitor of the Society of Russian Watercolor Artists (since 1901), the Kuindschi Artists Society (since 1909) and the Peredwischniki (since 1915). Between 1906 and 1916 he won the Kuindschi Prize six times . He won the Stroganow Prize for the painting surf , which had received a lot of attention at the 1913 International Art Exhibition in Munich. Several of his paintings were bought by the Russian government.

After the October Revolution , Kaigorodow emigrated to the new Republic of Estonia and ran an art school in Tallinn . He was a member of the Estonian artists' association Ekku . He sent his pictures to exhibitions and made exhibitions in the Glaspalast in Munich and in Berlin , Karlsruhe , The Hague and London .

In the course of the resettlement of the Baltic Germans as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , Kaigorodow came first to Danzig and then to Posen in 1939 . He held exhibitions and visited Prague three times , where he painted a series of pictures of the Old Town. At the end of the Second World War he fled to Austria from the Red Army in January 1945 . Some of the pictures left behind in Poznan appeared on the international art market.

Kaigorodov's paintings hang in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery , the St. Petersburg Russian Museum and the Tallinn Estonian Art Museum.

literature

• image index of art and architecture: Anatol Kaigorodoff (accessed January 30, 2016).
• America Pink: Anatoly Kaigorodov (accessed January 31, 2016).
• Thieme-Becker Artist Lexicon Volume 19, 1926, pp. 438f.
• ArtRu.Info: Kaigorodow Anatoli Dmitrijewitsch (Russian, accessed January 31, 2016).