Evdokiya Ivanovna Loseva

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Evdokija Ivanovna Lossewa (WA Serow, 1903, Tretyakov Gallery )

Evdokija Ivanovna Lossewa , born Jewdokija Ivanovna Tschischowa , ( Russian Евдокия Ивановна Лосева , birth name Russian Евдокия Ивановна Чижова ; * 1880 ; † 1936 ) was a Russian painter and collector.

Life

Evdokija Ivanovna came from the Moscow aristocratic family Tschischow. She married the chemist and military engineer Michail Lukitsch Lossew (1851–1912), with whom she had three daughters: Nina (1899–1976), Sergeja (1900–1980) and Marina (1901–1985). Guests in her home at the Moscow Subowski Bulwar 8 were Konstantin Yuon , Nikolai Ge , Alexander Blok , Igor Severyanin , Georgi Ivanovich Chulkov , Nikolai Berdyaev , Mikhail Gershenzon , Vladislav Khodasevich and Vyacheslav Ivanov .

Lossewa studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with KF Juon and took lessons with Valentin Alexandrovich Serov , who portrayed her in 1903 . Lossewa's paintings were exhibited in the Moscow Salon in 1915, 1916 and 1917, and after the October Revolution in further exhibitions in 1918, 1919 and 1921. She collected Russian paintings , some of which she gave to the Russian Museum in the 1920s .

Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Bartram (Evdokija Ivanovna Lossewa, 1920s)

After her husband's death in 1912, she married the artist Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Bartram , with whom she had worked since 1905 and whom she supported as a collaborator in his work for the preservation and development of Russian folk toys . She took part in socio-political life. In 1917 and 1918, with the February and October revolutions, she financed the magazine Narodoprawstwo . Together with Bartram, she organized the toy museum , which opened in 1918 in her four-room apartment in Moscow on Smolenski Bulwar and was directed by Bartram. The exhibition has been steadily expanded with objects from nationalized mansions . She created the only portrait of Bartram. In 1925 the toy museum was housed with Bartram as director in the Khrushchev Selesnjow mansion on Moscow's Pretschistenka , built by Domenico Gilardi . They conducted courses in artistic toys and opened a workshop for them in 1929. In 1931 the museum got its final location in Sagorsk opposite the Trinity Monastery . Lossewa was a research assistant at the museum, led excursions and prepared guides.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Путеводитель по русским ремёслам: Евдокия Лосева (accessed January 8, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d Стерлигова И. А .: О Марине Михайловне Постниковой-Лосевой . In: Искусство христианского мира. Сборник статей . 5th edition. Moscow 2001, p. 338-347 .
  3. ↑ Оглоблин В. Н .: Памяти Михаила Лукича Лосева . In: Известия Общества для содействия улучшению и развитию мануфактурной промышленности . tape 16 , no. 11 , 1912.
  4. ↑ Российская музейная энциклопедия. Т. 2 . Moscow 2001, p. 107 .
  5. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: БАРТРА́М Николай Дмитриевич (accessed January 8, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Lossewa, Evdokiya Ivanovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschischowa, Jewdokija Ivanovna (maiden name); Лосева, Евдокия Ивановна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter and collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
DATE OF DEATH 1936