Maria Lvovna Dillon

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Maria Lvovna Dillon

Marija Lvovna Dillon ( Russian Мария Львовна Диллон * October 15 . Jul / 27. October  1858 greg. In Panevezys ; † 14. October 1932 in Leningrad ) was a Russian - Soviet sculptor .

Life

Dillon, the daughter of a Jewish tax farmer , came to St. Petersburg in her early teens . Under the influence of the success of the sculptor Mark Matwejewitsch Antokolski , the Dillons family noticed a passion for plastic forms. Dillon began studying at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1879 , which she graduated in 1888. For her thesis with Andromeda chained to a rock , she received the small gold medal with the appointment of Classical Artist, 2nd class. Her teachers included Alexander von Bock , Nikolai Akimowitsch Lawerezki and II Podosjonow.

Dillon participated regularly in the annual exhibitions of the Academy of Arts and also exhibited abroad, for example in the Museum of Science and Industry on the occasion of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 . She stayed in Germany , France and Italy . The small figure of the messenger of the victory of Marathon was an outstanding work . She specialized in naked female figures and in idealizing and portrait-like heads of women and children. Her Tatjana from Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin was first exhibited at the Academy Exhibition in 1896 and then at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1896. For Alexander Pushkin's 100th birthday in 1899, her Tatjana was exhibited in the museum of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz . Tatjana has been featured in magazines, publications and on postcards, but has been lost.

At the end of the 1890s, Dillon created a series of works for the interior of the St. Petersburg Villa Kelch on behalf of the patron Warwara Petrovna Kelch. The three allegorical representations of morning, noon and evening in the stairwell are now in the Oblast Art Museum in Rostov-on-Don . In the spring of 1898 Dillon went to Florence , where her skin reliefs by Italian masters were executed in marble until the end of March 1899 .

In 1900 Dillon created Lidija , which was one of her most famous works. The model was a Russian lady she met on the street. Lidija was acquired by the imperial family at the academy exhibition for the lilac cabinet of the Alexander Palace .

Dillon created the monument bust of the mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobatschewski in Kazan and the monument to Emperor Alexander II in Chernihiv as well as grave monuments for the transport minister Adolf von Huebbenet , the painter Luigi Premazzi , the writer Gregori Petrovich Danilewski and the composer Anton Stepanowitsch Arenski as commissioned works .

During the Russo-Japanese War , Dillon created the well-known group In the Far East , in which a young nurse reads a letter from home to a wounded soldier. For this, Dillon received the first anniversary prize of 2000 rubles in the competition of the Imperial Society for the Promotion of the Arts. She received another award for the models for two commemorative medals for the 200th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg. In 1912 she created the grave monument for her painter friend Kostjantyn Kryschyzkyj , whose bronze sculpture was melted down after the October Revolution .

Dillon was married to her classmate and painter Theodor Buchholz (1857–1942). She was buried in the Smolensk Lutheran Cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Works by Dillon are in the Russian Museum , the State Museum of Urban Sculpture and the Pushkin House in St. Petersburg, the Mining Museum of the State Mining University of St. Petersburg and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow . In 2010, on the occasion of Dillon's 150th birthday, an exhibition of Dillon's works took place in St. Petersburg's Michaelsburg .

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Долинина К .: Могилы, девы, огурцы . In: Коммерсант Санкт-Петербург . No. 52 , March 26, 2010 ( [1] [accessed August 19, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b Коренев, Л .: Первая русская женщина-скульптор . In: Гудок . No. 37 , September 24, 2010 ( [2] [accessed August 19, 2020]).
  4. ↑ a b Лузина, О .: Мария Диллон: Где стол был яств, там гроб стоит . In: Фонтанка.Ру . March 24, 2010 ( [3] [accessed August 19, 2020]).
  5. ^ Nichols, KL: Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893 . ( [4] [accessed August 19, 2020]).
  6. ↑ The State Russian Museum / St Michael's Castle: Maria Dillon (accessed August 19, 2020).
  7. ↑ Karpova, Elena V. (contributor); Rytikova, Vera (Contributor); Petrova, Evgenija Nikolaevna (editor); Dillon, Marija L. (Illustrator): Marija Dillon: 1858 - 1932; k 150-letiju so dnja roždenija . Palace Ed., St. Petersburg, Bad Breisig 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Dillon, Maria Lvovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Диллон, Мария Львовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Ponewiesch
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1932
Place of death Leningrad