Kirill Antonowitsch Gorbunow
Kirill Antonovich Gorbunov ( Russian Кирилл Антонович Горбунов * 1822 in the village Wladykino, Ujesd Tschembar , Penza province , † 8. November 1893 in Tsarskoye Selo ) was a Russian portrait painter and lithographer .
Kirill Gorbunow was born a serf and was still allowed to study painting with Carl Wilhelm von Rabus in Moscow from 1836 to 1840 . On the recommendation of Nikolai Gogol , he continued his studies until 1846 at the Petersburg Imperial Art Academy as a pupil of Karl Brjullow . At the beginning of the six years of study in Petersburg - more precisely in 1841 - Brjullow and Vasily Zhukovsky achieved the liberation of the young painter from serfdom with the Tsar . This status enabled Kirill Gorbunow to work as a freelance artist from 1846 . That meant, among other things, that Gorbunow was allowed to open his own studio. In 1851 he was appointed an academic for the portrait of Professor Alexei Markow.
Kirill Gorbunov painted portraits of famous Russian cultural workers (among other Vissarion Belinsky , Alexander Herzen , Nikolai Ogarev , Timofei Granovsky , Mikhail Lermontov , Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev , Nikolai Stankevich , Mikhail Shchepkin , Alexei Koltsov , Ivan Panayev , Vladimir Odojewski , Ivan Goncharov , Pawel Annenkow and Michail Bakunin ) and two tsars ( Alexander II and Alexander III ) and taught at the Smolny Institute from 1851 to 1888 . In addition to lithographs, carried out on behalf of Alexander Herzen, the artist also created frescoes and icons .
Web links
- Kirill Antonowitsch Gorbunow on RusArtNet (English)
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| SURNAME | Gorbunow, Kirill Antonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Горбунов, Кирилл Антонович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian portrait painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wladykino village, Ujesd Chembar, Penza Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1893 |
| Place of death | Tsarskoye Selo |