Ivan Prokofievich Prokofiev

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Ivan Prokofjewitsch Prokofiev ( Russian Иван Прокофьевич Прокофьев ; born January 24 . Jul / 4. February  1758 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † February 10 jul. / 22. February  1828 greg. ) Was a Russian sculptor and university lecturer .

Life

Prokofiev, son of the stable master Prokofi Ivanov, completed school boarding at the Imperial Academy of Arts and then studied there from 1771 in the sculpture class led by Nicolas-François Gillet . He received two silver medals and one gold medal for his work. In 1776 he was transferred to the historical sculpture class led by Fyodor Gordejewitsch Gordejew .

At the end of his studies in 1779, Prokofiev received a scholarship abroad with which he traveled to Paris . He got to know works of antiquity , the Renaissance and the Baroque and studied anatomy and marble processing . From the Académie des Beaux-Arts he received two silver medals for his Moses (1782) and his Morpheus and a gold medal for his bas-relief Raising a Dead with the Cane of Elisha in 1783.

In 1784 Prokofiev returned. He interrupted his trip in Berlin and Stettin . He worked at the Prussian Academy of the Arts and took on private commissions for portraits . In the summer of 1784 he was back in St. Petersburg. In 1785 the Akademie der Künste appointed him an academician for his sculpture Aktaion on the run from his dogs . For this he became an adjunct professor at the academy with his Morpheus statue . Several of his works have been acquired by the Hermitage . On behalf of the state, he created works for the Kazan Cathedral , the Academy of Arts, Pavlovsk Palace , the Gatchina Palace Church and other churches and the Neptune Fountain at Peterhof Palace . He created two terracotta portrait busts for Alexander Fyodorowitsch Labsin and his wife Anna Evdokimowna Labsina . The gable of the stock exchange built by Jean-François Thomas de Thomon was adorned with statues by Prokofiev and Feodossi Fyodorowitsch Shchedrin .

Prokofiev was not appointed professor until 1800. As a teacher he was very much appreciated, so that in 1802 the orphaned class of Mikhail Ivanovich Koslowskis was handed over to him. He also led the medal class and taught marble processing. In 1821 he suffered a stroke while teaching at the academy , after which his right arm and right leg were paralyzed. Nevertheless, he continued to work and apparently with helpers completed four large reliefs for the military orphanage. His last work was the portrait bust of the Polish writer Trębicki in 1822.

Works

  • Morpheus (1782), Russian Museum

  • Aktaion (1785), Tretyakov Gallery

  • Union of Volkhov and Neva (1801), Russian Museum

  • Bust of Alexander Labsin (1802), Russian Museum

  • Bust of Anna Labsin (1802), Russian Museum

  • Lion (Alexander Gusseisenwerk ), Obuchowskoi oborony prospekt 123–125, St. Petersburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ИВАН ПРОКОФЬЕВИЧ ПРОКОФЬЕВ (accessed July 14, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c d e А. П. Новицкий: Прокофьев, Иван Прокофьевич . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 15 , 1910, pp. 44-47 ( Wikisource [accessed July 14, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Прокофьев Иван Прокофьевич.
personal data
SURNAME Prokofiev, Ivan Prokofievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Прокофьев, Иван Прокофьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1828
Place of death St. Petersburg