Artist (Garschin)

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Ilya Repin 1884: Vsevolod Garschin

Artists , also Die Künstler ( Russian Художники , Chudoschniki ), is a short story by the Russian writer Vsevolod Garschin , which appeared in the September issue of the Otetschestwennye Sapiski in Saint Petersburg in 1879 .

The painters Djedow and Ryabinin are two talented students at the academy. The landscape painter Djedow is sent abroad by the academy for four years as a reward for his work “Morgen”. Ryabinin, who portrayed a tinker at work, is no longer up to the artist's responsibility, loses hope and changes profession.

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Thanks to an inheritance, Djedow, already around forty years old, gave up his engineering profession and became a painter; is attending a master class at the academy. There he met the younger Ryabinin. The latter is a lazy man, but is especially popularized by the younger painters in the class because of his extraordinary talent. Djedov and Ryabinin don't think much of each other. Djedow finds his colleague's technology extremely weak and Ryabinin smiles at the ridiculous content of the landscapist's work. Ryabinin wants to paint the working man. Djedow can help. He takes the colleague with him to the forge in his former factory. Ryabinin lets himself be shown everything and is fascinated by the work of a tinker. This man crawls into one of the kettles, holds a rivet in a hole in the kettle with pliers and has to brace himself against the rivet from the outside against the incessant hammer blows of the blacksmith. Every tinker becomes deaf from this work and can withstand it for up to two years. Then it is used up.

Djedow explains to the academic companion that he had to cope with many such depressing impressions during his professional life as an engineer at the shipyard and that he is very happy that he is now - thanks to his heir aunt blissfully - painting his calm sunrises and sunsets that soften the soul of the beholder could. But Ryabinin wants to continue painting the working people. Djedow waves it aside, cannot accept such a painted motif as a work of art. Reason: In music, discordant notes are also taboo. Ryabinin is not deterred; crawls into the kettle with the tinker and paints the man holding his chest against the horrific hammer blows from outside. When Ryabinin inspects the finished painting in his studio at home, he cannot let go of the tense blacksmith work. He has to impose his own work, the depiction of the torture, in the end, thinking of the tormented worker, can no longer paint at all, falls ill and, after convalescence, changes to the village school teacher.

reception

When Gerhart Hauptmann wrote Einsame Menschen in autumn 1890 (premiered on January 11, 1891 by the Freie Bühne at the Residenztheater Berlin ), he praised Garschin's text in the piece. More precisely, in the second act the painter Braun discusses the work of the Russian painters Djedoff and Rjäbinin with the two protagonists Anna Mahr and Johannes Vockerat .

German-language editions

Output used:

  • Artist . P. 125-149 in Vsevolod M. Garschin: The stories. Transferred and with afterword by Valerian Tornius . 464 pages. Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1956 (Dieterich Collection, Vol. 177)

Secondary literature

  • Lonely people . P. 259–370 in Gerhart Hauptmann: Selected Dramas. Volume 1. 692 pages in Gerhart Hauptmann: Selected dramas in four volumes. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952
  • Lonely people. Drama . Pp. 429-538 in Ursula Münchow (ed.): Naturalismus 1885-1891. Dramas. Poetry. Prose. 566 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1970 (1st edition)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 134, 8. Zvo
  2. ↑ Hans Mayer in the foreword introduction to the dramatic work of Gerhart Hauptmann in Gerhart Hauptmann: Selected Dramas. Volume 1 , p. 36
  3. ↑ Gerhart Hauptmann: Selected Dramas. Volume 1 , p. 297, 6. Zvu ( The Artists of Garschin)
  4. ↑ Naturalism 1885-1891 , p. 467, 10th Zvu