Ivan Abramowitsch Morozov

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Valentin Alexandrowitsch Serow : Portrait of Ivan Morozov , 1910, Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
Paul Cézanne: Portrait of Mme Cézanne in the Greenhouse , 1891-1892, acquired by Morosow in 1910 through Ambroise Vollard , now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

Ivan Abramovich Morozov ( Russian Иван Абрамович Морозов ; born November 27 . Jul / 9. December  1871 greg. In Moscow ; † 22. June 1921 in Carlsbad ) was a Russian art collector. In addition to his compatriot Sergei Shchukin, he owned one of the largest collections of French avant-garde art in Russia before the First World War .

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Morosov's family belonged to the Russian upper class. That is why he was able to study at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. After completing his training, he took over his father's textile works. Morozov began collecting works by young Russian artists. But from 1907 he also collected French art, which he acquired in the well-known Parisian galleries Bernheim-Jeune , Durand-Ruel and Vollard to decorate his converted villa. He mainly collected impressionists , fauvists such as Henri Matisse and André Derain, as well as works by the artist group Nabis . Its co-founder, Maurice Denis , decorated the music hall of his Moscow town house with the cycle History of the Psyche from 1907 , and Aristide Maillol created four bronze figures for the hall. Morosow was particularly proud of his 18 paintings by Paul Cézanne . Soon he owned the largest collection of French avant-garde works in Russia.

With the beginning of the First World War and the October Revolution , Morosov's collecting activities inevitably ended. In 1918 his collection was nationalized and together with Sergei Shchukin's collection was run as the “ Museum of New Western Art ”. The Morozovs left Russia. Ivan Morozov died in 1921 on a trip to Karlsbad.

In 1948, the Shchukin and Morozov collections were distributed to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Albert Kostenewitsch: Russian collectors of French art. The Shchukin and Morozov family clans . In: Morozov and Shchukin - the Russian collectors. Monet to Picasso . (Exhibition catalog) DuMont, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7701-3144-4 . Pp. 35–150, therein pp. 83–120: The Morosows .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moscow's Patrons of Modernity , Focus, June 21, 1993
  2. ↑ Morozov's biography on the exhibition pages of "Russia!" in the Guggenheim Museum
  3. ^ State AS Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow)
personal data
SURNAME Morosow, Iwan Abramowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Морозов, Иван Абрамович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian art collector
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1921
Place of death near Karlsbad