Yelisaveta Nikolaevna Swanzewa

Jelisaveta Swanzewa ( Ilya Repin 1889)

Elizaveta Nikolaevna Swanzewa ( Russian Елизавета Николаевна Званцева ; born November 18 ^{. Jul} / 30th November  1864 ^greg. , †  22. August 1921 ) was a Russian landowner , artist , painter and founder of a painting school .

Jelisaveta Swanzewa, called Lisa, was the great-granddaughter of a Turkish pasha who was killed during the 5th Russian Turkish War in 1769 while conquering the Schwanets fortress in Ukraine . The Grand Duke and later Tsar Paul I took his little son into his care and gave him the name Peter Pawlowitsch with the family name Schwanets after the conquered fortress, which eventually became Swanzew. The grandchildren of Peter Pavlovich Konstantin, Peter and Nikolai, Lisa's father, were excellently educated and held higher positions in the St. Petersburg and Moscow societies. Lisa's maternal grandfather was the Russian writer, journalist and historian Nikolai Alexejewitsch Polewoi (1796–1846).

From 1885 to 1888 Lisa Swanzewa studied at the Moscow Academy of Painting , Sculpture and Architecture and from 1889 to 1896 at the Art Academy in St. Petersburg with Pavel Petrowitsch Tschistjakow and Ilja Eefimowitsch Repin , whom she met at EN Gajewski's house. Repin painted five portraits of her in 1889. The only surviving large portrait was bequeathed to the Ateneum in Helsinki in a will .

Swanzewa left the academy without a degree and in 1897 traveled to Paris with her childhood friend Konstantin Andrejewitsch Somow , where she studied at the private Académie Julian . In 1899 she returned to Moscow and founded an art school in which Konstantin Alexejewitsch Korowin , Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Serow and others taught.

In 1906 she opened a private art workshop in St. Petersburg, known as the Bakst - Dobuschinski School , in which Bakst, Dobuschinski and Petrow-Vodkin taught in particular . Well-known students were Margarita Sabaschnikowa , Jelena Guro and Marc Chagall . The school was in a large apartment in the house where the poet Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov had his jour fixe . The school existed until 1916.

At times Swanzewa lived in this school with her sister, Margarita Sabaschnikowa with her husband Maximilian Woloschin and Michail Kuzmin as a shared apartment. There were also close contacts with the poets who came to Ivanov's jour fixe . The artists portrayed the poets and each other. In particular, Konstantin Somov for his portraits of Mikhail Kuzmin, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Alexander Blok known Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Léon Bakst.

After the October Revolution , Svanseva lived in Nizhny Novgorod for some time , and then returned to Moscow. She didn't have a family. She worked in a Moscow children's home and took care of homeless children.

Web links

Commons : Elizabeta Zvantseva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jeremy Howard and Sergey Kuznetsov: Zvantseva, Yelizaveta (1864-1921), art school founder, painter. Volume Grove Art Online, August 1996, ISBN 9781884446054
• The Zvantseva Apartment (accessed August 18, 2015)