Mikhail Ivanovich Koslowski

Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlovsky ( Russian Михаил Иванович Козловский ; born October 26 ^{. Jul} / 6. November 1753 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † September 18 ^{. Jul} / the thirtieth September 1802 ^{. Greg} ) was a Russian sculptor and university lecturer .

Life

Koslowski, son of a trumpeter in the Russian galley fleet , studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts . His main teachers were the sculptor Nicolas-François Gillet and the painter Anton Pawlowitsch Lossenko . After completing his studies in 1772, the Academy sent him to Rome (1774–1779) and Paris (1779–1780) for further studies on a foreign scholarship .

In 1782 Koslowski returned to St. Petersburg with the sculpture Jupiter and Ganymede , where the Academy named him a candidate for membership. From 1788–1797 he was back in Paris to look after the scholars of the St. Petersburg Academy. In 1794 he became a member of the academy and professor. From 1794 he headed the sculpture class. Stepan Stepanowitsch Pimenow and Vasily Iwanowitsch Demut-Malinowski were among his students . After Koslowsky's death, the sculpture class was taken over by Ivan Prokofievich Prokofiev .

Koslowski was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in St. Petersburg . In 1931 he was reburied in the Lazarus Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery .

Works

Bacchus finds Ariadne sleeping on Naxos (1780), Tretyakov Gallery
Alexander the Great's Night Watch (1780s), Russian Museum
Ajax defends Patroclus's body , Russian Museum
Shepherd with Hare (1789), Tretyakov Gallery
Polykrates (1790), Russian Museum
Yakov Fedorovich Dolgorukov burns the ukase of the Tsar (1796), Tretyakov Gallery
Catherine II as Themis (1796), Russian Museum
Cupid with the Arrow (1797), Tretyakov Gallery
Girl with a Butterfly (1801), Russian Museum
Samson tames the Swedish lion (1801), central fountain at the foot of the Grand Cascade in front of the Grand Palace, Peterhof Palace
Suvorov Monument (1801), Suvorov Square, St. Petersburg
Isjaslav II on the battlefield

Individual evidence

↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: КОЗЛО́ВСКИЙ Михаил Иванович (accessed July 15, 2018).
↑ Козловский (Михаил Иванович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XVa, 1895, p. 601-602 ( Wikisource [accessed July 15, 2018]).
↑ Козловский, Михаил Иванович . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 9 , 1903, pp. 42-45 ( Wikisource [accessed July 15, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Koslowski, Mikhail Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Козловский, Михаил Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1802
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] Большая российская энциклопедия: КОЗЛО́ВСКИЙ Михаил Иванович (accessed July 15, 2018).

[2] Козловский (Михаил Иванович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XVa, 1895, p. 601-602 ( Wikisource [accessed July 15, 2018]).

[3] Козловский, Михаил Иванович . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 9 , 1903, pp. 42-45 ( Wikisource [accessed July 15, 2018]).