Pavel Petrovich Sokolov (sculptor)
Pavel Petrovich Sokolov ( Russian Павел Петрович Соколов , scientific. Transliteration Pavel Petrovich Sokolov ; born 16 jul. / 27. June 1764 greg. Saint Petersburg , † September 24 jul. / 6. October 1835 greg. In Saint Petersburg) was a Russian sculptor and creator of outstanding works of decorative art of Russian classicism .
Sokolow studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1770 to 1785 and was a guest at the French Academy from 1786 to 1789. From 1813 he was a member of the academy. He was employed as a master of the art of cutting at the Imperial Admiralty in Petersburg.
In 1810 he created one of his most famous works, the bronze sculpture Milkmaid with the broken jug , for the Katharinenpark in Tsarskoye Selo, today's Pushkin . The Russian poet Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin dedicated his poem The Statue of Tsarskoe Selo (Russian: Царскосельская статуя) to this statue in 1830 : Casually filling the urn with water let the girl fall. The maid sits in mourning, holding the broken jug. Miracle: the water does not run dry, it melts from shattered shards. The fountain runs forever, the maid mourns forever.
Sokolov is the creator of a series of characters for the Saint Petersburg bridges. In 1825 he created the lions on the Löwenbrücke and the griffins on the Greifenbrücke in the same year . The latter was used by the well-known contemporary Russian poet Dmitri Wasiljewitsch Bobyshev as a template for the poem The winged lion sits with the winged lion (Russian: Крылатый лев сидит с крылатым львом…). The sphinxes on the Egyptian Bridge date from 1829 .
Sokolov was buried in the Orthodox Smolensk Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. His remains were later transferred to the so-called necropolis of the master artists in the Tikhvin cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky monastery in Saint Petersburg.
Works
- 1807/10 Milkmaid with the broken jug (Laitière). Original in Katharinen Park at the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo . A cast had been in the pleasure ground of Glienicke Palace , Berlin , since 1827 . Lost in the war. As a result of a German-Russian initiative, a new cast was set up at the original location in 1989. Another copy is in the Alt-Britz Castle Park
- 1825 Lions of the Lions Bridge over the Griboyedov Canal , Saint Petersburg
- 1825 Grasp the Griffin Bridge over the Griboyedov Canal, Saint Petersburg
- 1829 Sphinxes on the Egyptian Bridge over the Fontanka , Saint Petersburg
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SURNAME | Sokolov, Pavel Petrovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Соколов, Павел Петрович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1764 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1835 |
Place of death | St. Petersburg |