Jelena Dmitrijewna Polenowa

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Jelena Polenowa

Yelena Polenova ( Russian Елена Дмитриевна Поленова , scientific. Transliteration Elena Dmitrievna Polenova ; Nov. 15 * . Jul / 27. November  1850 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † November 7 jul. / 19th November  1898 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian painter and illustrator .

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Jelena Polenowa was born as the daughter of the lawyer and historian Dmitri Polenow and the younger sister of the painter Vasily Polenow .

She attended the painting school of the Imperial Society for the Advancement of the Arts in Saint Petersburg (no women in art were admitted to the Art Academy during this period ). There Pavel Tschistjakow was her teacher from 1859, from 1864 also Ivan Kramskoi . From 1869 to 1870 Jelena Polenowa traveled to Paris with her sister Wera , where she took lessons from Charles Chaplin .

She later made further trips to Germany and Italy (1875) and again to Paris (1879) for further artistic training. During the Russo-Ottoman War 1877-1878 she worked in a military hospital in Kiev .

In the 1870s, Polenowa mainly created watercolors , which were exhibited for the first time in Saint Petersburg and Moscow in 1882 and which received high acclaim from critics, including Vladimir Stasov . During this time she moved to Moscow, where she made close acquaintance with the family of the industrialist and art patron Savva Mamontov and came into contact with painters such as Ilya Repin , Viktor Wasnezow , Michail Nesterow , Isaak Levitan and Michail Vrubel .

Polenowa played a noticeable role in Mamontow's artist colony Abramzewo , where she and Mamontow's wife Jelisaweta founded a studio for carpentry and wood carving in 1885. As a result, with her illustrations of Russian fairy tales and Slavic mythology, Polenowa was one of the protagonists of the Russian romantic variant of Art Nouveau . The themes and motifs of this creative period are comparable to those of Ivan Bilibin or, in part, of Viktor Wasnezov.

Jelena Polenowa died in 1898 as a result of head injuries two years earlier in an accident.

Works (selection)

painting

  • Icon workshop of the 16th century ( Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow)
  • Prince Boris before his killing ( Russian Museum , Saint Petersburg)
  • Wandering musicians
  • Guest of the godmother

Illustrations to fairy tales

  • The White Duckling (published posthumously 1923)
  • The mushroom war
  • Stupid Ivanushka
  • Jack Frost

Web links

Commons : Jelena Polenowa  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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personal data
SURNAME Polenowa, Jelena Dmitrijewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Поленова, Елена Дмитриевна (Cyrillic); Polenova, Elena Dmitrievna (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1898
Place of death Moscow