Fyodor Jakowlewitsch Alexejew
Fyodor Alekseyev ( Russian Фёдор Яковлевич Алексеев * 1753 or 1754 in St. Petersburg , Russian Empire , † November 11 jul. / 23. November 1824 greg. ) Was a pioneer of Russian landscape painting and professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.
Life
From 1767 to 1773 Alexejew attended the Petersburg Academy, after which he went to Venice for three years until 1777 , where he got to know the cityscapes of Giovanni Antonio Canaletto and Francesco Lazzaro Guardis . After his return to Saint Petersburg, his fame continued to grow. Examples of his work from this period are the paintings A Sight of the Winter Palace from the Peter and Paul Fortress (1791) or two different views of the Michaelsburg (1800). On a trip to the Black Sea in 1797 a painting was made in Cherson Town Square and in 1799 View of the City of Nikolayev , which is now (2011) in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow .
In the years 1800 to 1802 Alexejew was commissioned by Tsar Paul I to make a series of vedute in Moscow and its surroundings. The view of Moscow near the Iwersky Gate of the Kremlin , Sobornaya Square in the Kremlin from 1800, his view of Kolomenskoye , the Vladimir Gate from 1800 or the palace in Tsaritsyno Park near Moscow were created . On the occasion of the coronation of Tsar Alexander I in 1802, he illuminated Sobornaya Square in the Kremlin .
Alexeyev's last picture is from 1824 and shows the flood of November 7, 1824 on the square in front of the Bolshoi Theater in Saint Petersburg.
In 1803 Alexejew was appointed professor of the Imperial Art Academy, but continued to paint views of the changing Saint Petersburg, such as views of the Stock Exchange and the Admiralty building from the fortress of St. Peter and Paul from 1810 and The Kazan Cathedral on Nevsky Prospectus in St. Petersburg (1811).
literature
- Aleksej Aleksandrowitsch Fyodorow-Davydow: Fyodor Jakowlewitsch Alexejew , Iskusstwo, Moscow 1955.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article Fyodor Jakowlewitsch Alexejew in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Alexejew, Fyodor Jakowlewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Алексеев, Фёдор Яковлевич (Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1753 or 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1824 |
| Place of death | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |