Lidija Alexandrovna Durnowo

Lidija Alexandrovna Durnovo ( Russian Лидия Александровна Дурново ; born May 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. May 1885 ^greg. In Smolensk ; † 7. January 1963 in Yerevan ) was a Russian - Soviet art historian .

Life

Durnowo attended high school in Oryol with graduation in 1901 and then a private drawing school in Smolensk. In 1903 she began studying at the Central School for Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz in St. Petersburg and at the same time in the higher courses for women ( Bestuschewskije kursy ) . During the Russo-Japanese War , she was a Sister of Mercy on the front lines . This was followed by the art college of the Imperial Academy of the Arts . In 1916 she became a student at the Russian Institute for Art History (III) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), which became the State Institute for Art History (GIII) after the October Revolution .

In 1918 Durnowo became an aspirant in the GIII. She completed her final studies at the Institute of Archeology (1920–1923). Until 1952 she used the pseudonym Durnowa to disguise her noble origins. In the GIII, she was one of more than 20 scheduled and unscheduled artists who used scientific methods to reproduce frescoes in old Russian churches for the restoration workshop. She reproduced frescoes in Novgorod , Kiev , Chernihiv , Yaroslavl and Staraya Ladoga, as well as in the Kirillo Belozersky Monastery and the Ferapontov Monastery . The reproductions made by Durnowo and her students are the only evidence of many of the cultural monuments destroyed in the German-Soviet war . She was also an assistant at the Russian Museum .

In October 1933 Durnowo was arrested in connection with the affair of the Russian National Party (against the Slavists ) and sentenced to three years' exile in Omsk Oblast . After the exile ended on November 3, 1936, she went to Kaluga .

In 1937 Durnowo went to Yerevan and worked for the Armenian National Gallery. She studied the Armenian medieval frescoes and the Armenian book illumination . She reproduced old frescoes and miniatures again . From 1954 to 1955 she led the restoration of the frescoes in Etchmiadzin Cathedral .

In 1956 Durnowo was rehabilitated.

Honors

Honored Artist of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1945)

Web links

Literature by and about Lidija Alexandrovna Durnowo in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Catalog of the Russian National Library : Дурново, Лидия Александровна

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Васильков Я. В .: ДУРНОВО (псевд .: Дурнова) Лидия Александровна (1885–1963) . In: Люди и судьбы: биобиблиографический словарь востоковедов - жертв политического теритического теритикора в совд пер1799ий1) (19 . Петербургское Востоковедение, 2003, p. 155 ( [1] [accessed February 14, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Искусства Армении: О Лидии Александровне Дурново (accessed February 14, 2020).
↑ Репрессированные художники, искусствоведы: Дурново Лидия Александровна (accessed February 14, 2020).
^ Lydia A. Durnowo: Armenian miniatures . DuMont Schauberg , Cologne 1961.

personal data
SURNAME	Durnowo, Lidija Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Дурново, Лидия Александровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-Soviet art scholar and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Smolensk
DATE OF DEATH	7th January 1963
Place of death	Yerevan

[ludi1-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Васильков Я. В .: ДУРНОВО (псевд .: Дурнова) Лидия Александровна (1885–1963) . In: Люди и судьбы: биобиблиографический словарь востоковедов - жертв политического теритического теритикора в совд пер1799ий1) (19 . Петербургское Востоковедение, 2003, p. 155 ( [1] [accessed February 14, 2020]).

[iskust-2] Искусства Армении: О Лидии Александровне Дурново (accessed February 14, 2020).

[3] Репрессированные художники, искусствоведы: Дурново Лидия Александровна (accessed February 14, 2020).

[4] Lydia A. Durnowo: Armenian miniatures . DuMont Schauberg , Cologne 1961.