Dimitrij von Prokofieff

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Dimitrij von Prokofieff (born October 9, 1879 in Nikolajew , southern Ukraine , † November 16, 1950 in Kevelaer ) was a painter from the old Russian nobility. Germany became his second home. He was one of the most important hunting painters.

Life

As a member of the Russian nobility, Prokofieff painted at the Tsar's court in St. Petersburg before the First World War . During the October Revolution , he fled west through the woods on foot and at night. Only in Germany did he board a train. From 1919 to 1945 he lived in Berlin . He loved the East Prussian landscape . "He was gifted to be able to depict the spaciousness, the originality, the bitter, heroic of the landscape with its fauna in his pictures and to anticipate the special atmosphere, the aura of the East Prussian Elkland." As a passionate hunter , he gained trust and confidence with his nature pictures Affection of the German hunters. The International Hunting Exhibition in Berlin in 1937 honored him with the silver medal. The gold medal went to Bruno Liljefors .

His house and studio were destroyed in the battle for Berlin . Prokofieff had to flee for the second time. Destitute, he came to West Germany , first to Bad Ems , then to Düsseldorf-Oberkassel , where he lived in a small attic apartment. Rudolf Frhr. v. Loë took him in. There many of his best pictures came back into his possession. His friend Lutz Heck had saved her in Berlin. Some of Prokofieff's pictures hang in the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg . Woldemar von Collins (1910-1999) was a student of Prokofieff.

literature

  • Wilhelm Suckow: The painter Dimitri von Prokofieff . Geldrischer Heimatkalender 1956, p. 62 f.
  • Rolf Brunk: The painter Prof. Dimitrij von Prokofieff . Die Neue Neudammerin, III / 2006, pp. 20–31.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family also came from Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew
  2. ↑ a b c Kevelaerer Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ a b Rolf Brunk: The painter Professor Dimitrij von Prokofieff . Neudammerin. Journal for Hunting and Nature, 3/2006, pp. 20–31.
  4. ↑ a b East Prussia and its painters . Annual calendar 1995, Dr. Wolfgang Schwarze Verlag, Wuppertal
personal data
SURNAME Prokofieff, Dimitrij von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolayev , southern Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1950
Place of death Kevelaer