Fyodor Ivanovich Iordan

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Portrait of Fyodor Iwanowitsch Iordan; Sergei Konstantinowitsch Sarjanko 1855

Fyodor Iwanowitsch Iordan ( Russian Фёдор Иванович Иордан ; * 13 August July / 25 August  1800 greg. In Pavlovsk , Saint Petersburg Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 19 September July / 1 October  1883 greg. In Saint Petersburg , Russian Kaiserreich) was a Russian engraver , engraver , professor and rector of the Russian Academy of Arts .

Life

Fyodor Ivanovich Iordan studied from 1819 to 1824 at the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he was a student of Nikolai Utkin (1780–1863). From September 1830 he studied in Paris with Théodore Richomme (1785–1849), then moved to London , where he arrived in September 1831 , due to the July Revolution . Between the spring of 1835 and 1850 he lived in Rome.

In 1844 he became an academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, in 1850, after his return from Italy, he became a professor there and finally in 1871 its rector. Fyodor Iordan was familiar with the Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko and advised him on the creation of his etchings from 1858 to 1861. According to Brockhaus-Efron , Iordan was one of the best Russian engravers.

Iordan died in 1883 and was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Fyodor Iordan  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Fyodor Iwanowitsch Iordan in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on September 10, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Fyodor Iordan in the Great Biographical Encyclopedia (2009); accessed on September 10, 2018 (Russian)
  3. ^ Entry on Fyodor Iordan in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979, on The Free Dictionary ; accessed on September 10, 2018 (English)
  4. ^ Entry on Fjodor Iordan in Brockhaus-Efron ; accessed on September 10, 2018 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Iordan, Fyodor Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Иордан, Фёдор Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian engraver, engraver, professor and rector of the Russian Academy of Arts
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlovsk , Saint Petersburg Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1883
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire