Paolo Troubetzkoy

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Paolo Troubetzkoy ( Russian Павел Петрович Трубецкой , Pavel Petrovich Trubetskoy, scientific. Transliteration Pavel Petrovich Trubetskoy * 15. February 1866 in Intra , Lake Maggiore , † 12. February 1938 in Pallanza , Lake Maggiore) was an Italian sculptor of Russian origin.

Live and act

Troubetzkoy was the middle of the three illegitimate sons of the Russian émigré Prince Pyotr Petrovich Troubetzkoy (1822-1892). Her mother was Ada Winans (1835–1917) from the USA , who had come to Florence to study singing . He was self-taught, made life-size figures, sculptures and portraits from bronze and plaster, and was influenced by Auguste Rodin .

The first exhibition of his works took place in the USA in 1886. As a well-known sculptor, he came to Russia in 1896 . There he was promoted by his cousins, the high state official Pyotr Nikolajewitsch Trubezkoi (1858-1911) and the religious philosopher Sergei Nikolajewitsch Trubetskoi (1862-1905), which was soon no longer necessary. In St. Petersburg he took part in an exhibition at Mir Iskusstwa , where he showed a portrait sculpture by the painter Isaak Ilyich Levitan . With his project he won the competition for the monument to Alexander III. , which was then built in St. Petersburg after the Russian Revolution in 1905 with the architect Fyodor Ossipowitsch Schechtel (1899–1909). This was only possible thanks to the support of Alexander III's widow. Maria Feodorovna , as many members of the imperial family perceived the sculpture as a caricature and were against the erection of the monument. Troubetzkoy left Russia in 1906 before the monument was inaugurated. After the inauguration in 1909, Troubetzkoy found himself in St. Petersburg in 1910, where the strict vegetarian Trubezkoy was honored with a vegetarian dinner by Princess Tarchanova with Ilya Efimovich Repin , Anatoli Fyodorowitsch Koni and Ilya Jakowlewitsch Ginzburg . In the same year he became a member of the Peredwischniki .

In 1913 Troubetzkoy exhibited his works in Rome . In 1914 he traveled to the USA, where he stayed until 1921 because of the First World War . He bought a small house in Hollywood and built a studio. He has held exhibitions in New York City , Philadelphia , Chicago, and San Francisco . Following Troubetzkoy's projects, a Dante memorial was erected in San Francisco in 1919 and a memorial to Harrison Gray Otis in Los Angeles in 1920 .

In 1921 Troubetzkoy settled in Paris . His Swedish wife Elin Sundström died there in 1927 . In 1932 Troubetzkoy returned to Italy . He was friends with Leo Tolstoy and GB Shaw , both of whom he portrayed. The town of Pallanza on Lake Maggiore has set up a museum in which many of his works can be seen in the original.

Works

  • Princess MN Gagarina with daughter Marina (1898)

  • Isaac Levitan (1899)

  • Monument to Alexander III, St. Petersburg

  • NS and WS Trubezkoi (1900)

  • Friends (1901)

  • Moscow cab (1906)

  • Seated Lady (Princess WK Arlowa?) (1909)

  • Memorial to the Fallen, Verbania Pallanza

  • Standing woman (1927)

Web links

Commons : Paolo Troubetzkoy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Сергей Анатольевич Мусский: 100 великих скульпторов: Паоло Трубецкой (1866–1938) (accessed March 10, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c Русская живопись: ТРУБЕЦКОЙ Павел Петрович (accessed March 10, 2018).
  3. ↑ Светлана Домогацкая: Паоло Трубецкой и Россия . In: Журнал "Третьяковская галерея . Volume 23 , no. 2 , 2009 ( tg-m.ru [accessed March 10, 2018]).
  4. ↑ a b М.Г. Талалай: Паоло Трубецкой: скульптура и генеалогия. К 150-летию со дня рождения . Старая Басманная, Moscow 2016 ( oldbasman.ru [accessed March 10, 2018]).
  5. ↑ хроника . In: Речь . April 2, 1910.
personal data
SURNAME Troubetzkoy, Paolo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Трубецкой, Павел Петрович; Trubetskoi, Pavel Petrovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor of Russian origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Intra , Lake Maggiore
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1938
Place of death Pallanza , Lake Maggiore