Mikhail Alexandrovich Wrubel

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Michail Wrubel, 1900s

Mikhail Vrubel ( Russian Михаил Александрович Врубель ., Scientific transliteration Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel ' . English transcription: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel ; born March 5 . Jul / 17th March  1856 greg. In Omsk , † April 1 jul. / 14th April  1910 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian painter , sculptor , ceramist and set designer of Symbolism and Art Nouveau .

Life

He studied first at St. Petersburg University and then from 1880 to 1884 at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art . From 1884 to 1889 he lived in Kiev , where he made several sketches for the frescoes in the Vladimir Cathedral on behalf of the local clergy and participated as a painter in the completion and restoration of the frescoes in the Kyrill Church there. In 1889 he moved to Moscow , where he became a member of the circle of artists around the Russian patron Mamontow and also worked in the Abramzewo artists' colony .

Wrubel's style is characterized by the dramatic intensity of color and "crystalline" clarity. His works were characterized by subjective-mystical ideas and allegories . In particular, his illustrations for Mikhail Lermontov's poem “ The Demon ” were deeply pessimistic and tense and dramatic, which established his fame as one of the leading representatives of symbolism. The motifs for his works arose from traditional Russian fairy tales and heroic epics ( Bylinen ) as well as from Western classical literature. In his work he strived for a great monumentality and strong psychological effect on the viewer. Until his death, Wrubel remained a point of reference for many students and imitators. Wrubel also worked for the theater and, in addition to Lermontov's poems, illustrated Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina .

A great niece of Wrubels was the human rights activist Tatiana Sergejewna Chodorowitsch .

Works (selection)

  • The girl in front of the Persian carpet , 1886

  • Demon , 1890

  • Pan , 1899

  • Lilac , 1900

  • The fortune teller , 1895

  • The swan princess , 1900

  • The Fallen Demon , 1902

  • Pearl , 1904

  • Azrael , 1904

Exhibition (selection)

  • 2017: Works by Wrubel, including the fireplace cladding depicting the Russian folk epic Mikula and Volga. Moscow splendor of the Tsarist era - ceramic treasures from the Kolomenskoje Museum , Hetjens Museum , Düsseldorf
  • 1997: Michail Wrubel - The Russian Symbolist, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Haus der Kunst , Munich

literature

  • Bol'saja sovetskaja enziklopedia (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia), Vol. 9. Moscow, 1951.

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Vrubel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ^ Ceramics by a symbolist, in Rheinische Post, from January 31, 2017
  2. ↑ Haus der Kunst, exhibition May 8th - July 20th 1997: Michail Wrubel - The Russian Symbolist
personal data
SURNAME Wrubel, Mikhail Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Врубель, Михаил Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter of symbolism
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Omsk
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1910
Place of death St. Petersburg