Marina Mikhailovna Postnikova-Loseva

Marina Mikhailovna Postnikowa-Lossewa born Marina Mikhailovna Lossewa , ( Russian Марина Михайловна Постникова-Лосева , maiden name Russian Марина Михайловна Лосева ; born August 3 ^jul. / 16th August  1901 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 22. June 1985 ibid) was a Russian art historian .

Life

Small birch (AS Golubkina, 1927, Tretyakov Gallery )

Marina Lossewa was the youngest daughter of the chemist and military engineer Mikhail Lukitsch Lossew (1851-1912) and the painter Evdokija Ivanovna Lossewa , who married the artist Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Bartram after Losev's death in 1912 . In the family 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 frequent guests. The young Marina Lossewa was the model for Anna Semenovna Golubkina's sculpture Little Birch .

After graduating from the Alfjorow Grammar School with a gold medal in 1919, Marina Lossewa studied at the historical - philological faculty of Moscow University in the department of theory and art history with a degree in 1924. Her academic teacher was Alexei Ivanovich Nekrasov . At the same time she worked 1919-1931 in the armory of the Moscow Kremlin in the department for fabrics, weapons and precious metals , so that she was involved in the first exhibition there in Soviet times. 1922–1929 she was secretary of the Scientific Council of the Armory.

In 1926 Marina Lossewa married the transport engineer Alexander Wassiljewitsch Postnikow, who taught at the institute for transport engineers . Her son Michail (1929–1992) became a lawyer .

In 1930, Postnikowa-Lossewa organized and headed the armory department for Russian silver , studying the activities of the other art workshops of the Moscow Kremlin . 1931–1985 she worked in the State Historical Museum (GIM) in the precious metals department, which she headed from 1959–1977. During the German-Soviet War she was involved in the evacuation and preservation of the museum's treasures. In 1945, after defending her dissertation on the history of the Don Cossack in the 18th century , she received her doctorate as a candidate for historical sciences .

Postnikowa-Lossewa was one of the founders of research into Russian jewelry with her more than 50 publications . In particular, she wrote books and catalogs on Russian silver and gold drinking ladles (1953), Russian enamel on gold and silver goods in the GIM and its branches (1962), Russian jewelry with its centers and workshops (1974) and the silver shops of the Meister (1981), who were the subject of her doctoral dissertation , which she defended in 1971 . From 1977 she worked at GIM as a senior employee and consultant. In November 1978, she represented the first time the USSR at Sotheby's - Auction Russian silver unikate for the GIM and the Hermitage .

Postnikowa-Lossewa was buried in the Vagankovo cemetery .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Стерлигова И. А .: О Марине Михайловне Постниковой-Лосевой . In: Искусство христианского мира. Сборник статей . 5th edition. Moscow 2001, p. 338-347 .
2. ↑ Путеводитель по русским ремёслам: Евдокия Лосева (accessed January 8, 2019).
3. ↑ Оглоблин В. Н .: Памяти Михаила Лукича Лосева . In: Известия Общества для содействия улучшению и развитию мануфактурной промышленности . tape 16 , no. 11 , 1912.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Российская музейная энциклопедия. Т. 2 . Moscow 2001, p. 107 .
5. ↑ Postnikowa- Lossewa, Marina u. a .: Moscow History Museum. Treasures of jewelry art . Aurora-Kunstverlag, Leningrad 1985.
6. ↑ М. М. Постникова: Русское золотое и серебряное дело, его центры и мастера XVI-XIX вв. [ Текст ]: Автореферат дис. на соискание ученой степени доктора искусствоведения . Ин-т истории искусств, Moscow 1971.