Pavel Alexandrovich Swedomski

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Pawel Alexandrowitsch Swedomski ( Russian Павел Александрович Сведомский ; born June 7, 1849 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † August 27, 1904 in Rome , Italy ) was a Russian history , genre , portrait and landscape painter .

Life

Swedomski grew up on the country estate of his aristocratic family, Savod Michailowski , a good forty kilometers outside the present-day city of Tchaikovsky ( Perm region in the Volga federal district ). Together with his brother Alexander he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1870/1871 , where they were taught by the church and history painter Andreas Müller . In Düsseldorf they also met the painters Mihály von Munkácsy and Eduard Gebhardt , a history painter from the Düsseldorf School . In 1871 they moved to Munich , where they became a student of Carl Theodor von Piloty . In 1875 they went to Rome for about ten years . However, they usually spent the summers at the Zavod Mikhailovsky country estate . In 1885 he moved to Kiev . His main work there was the painting of the Vladimir Cathedral , which he carried out together with other painters in the years up to 1896. Swedomski died in Rome in 1904 and was buried there in the Protestant cemetery .

Works (selection)

The flower grave , 1886
In the mask workshop , 1894
Jesus' entry into Jerusalem , together with Wilgelm Alexandrowitsch Kotarbinski

In addition to Christian motifs, Swedomski created a number of genre pictures about life in ancient Rome, which can be assigned to the styles of salon painting and academicism . He also painted landscapes and portraits.

  • Medusa , 1882, Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
  • The Flower Tomb , 1886, oil on canvas, National Museum of Russian Art (Kiev)
  • In the mask workshop , 1894, oil on canvas, Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
  • Fulvia with the head of Cicero , oil on canvas
  • Jurodiwy , oil on canvas, Kirovohrad Oblast Art Museum
  • Jesus' entry into Jerusalem , part of a cycle of frescoes on the life of Jesus in the Wladimirk Cathedral (Kiev) , together with Wilgelm Alexandrowitsch Kotarbinski , further frescoes of this cycle:
  • The resurrection of Lazarus
  • The last supper
  • In the garden of Gethsemane
  • Condemnation by Pontius Pilate
  • crucifixion
  • Resurrection

literature

  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 311 f.
  • Svedomsky, Pavel Aleksandrovic . In: General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical Index A-Z . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23918-1 , Volume 8

Web links

Commons : Pavel Svedomsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 441
  2. ↑ Kotarbinsky, Wilgelm (Vasiliy) Aleksandrovich , website in the portal vlsobor.com , accessed on December 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Swedomski, Pavel Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сведомский, Павел Александрови
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian history and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1904
Place of death Rome , Italy