Pyotr Petrovich Vereshchagin

Pyotr Petrovich Vereschagin, before 1886

Nevsky Prospect Saint Petersburg

View of Perm

Market day in Nizhny Novgorod

Interior view of the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Meshigorsky Monastery

Pyotr Petrovich Wereschtschagin ( Russian Пётр Петрович Верещагин ; born January 14, 1834 or 1836 in Perm ; † January 16, 1886 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian painter , best known for his landscape paintings .

Life

Pyotr Petrovich Wereschtschagin, not to be confused with the war painter Vasily Vasilyevich Wereschtschagin , was the brother of the painter Vasily Petrovich Wereschtschagin (1835–1909). Initially he made a name for himself as a fresco painter . He later studied at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he specialized in landscape painting. Pyotr Petrovich Wereschtschagin is one of the few painters of the second half of the 19th century who stylistically belongs to the school of Fyodor Jakowlewitsch Alexejew (around 1754-1824). Pyotr Vereschagin was particularly valued for his good perspective representation and views of landscapes and cities that were created while traveling through Russia and beyond. He came to Moscow , Saint Petersburg, Finland , the Crimean peninsula , the Caucasus , Kiev , Sevastopol and the Urals , among others . From 1868, the works he created on the way were often shown at exhibitions at the Academy. In 1873 he finally became an academician. Works by Pyotr Petrovich Wereschtschagin can be found today in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

Selection of works

• Interior view of the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Mezhigorsky Monastery in the region around Mezhigorje , today Guta Meschigorskaya, near Kiev ( Kiewo Meschigorski Spasso-Preobrazhensky , formerly the main monastery of the Zaporozhian Cossacks ; since the building was destroyed in 1935, the painting gained extraordinary value as a source). Vereschagin is said to have depicted himself in the painting (left).
• Waterfall in Gurschewi (Southwest Georgia )
• Mzchet
• Portrait of WP Jusefowitsch (1863)
• Kiev, quay (1801/1900)
• City of Vladimir
• View of Perm
• View of Peter and Paul Fortress and Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange
• Haystack on the Volga
• View of the Chusovaya -Flusses
• View of the Nevsky Prospect
• View of the Kremlin in Moscow
• Market day in Nizhny Novgorod

literature

• Christie's, London (Ed.): Important Russian Pictures Including The Somov Collection , catalog for auction November 28, 2007, p. 284.

Web links

• View of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange , Christie's , Sale 7440, November 28, 2007, lot 282
• View of Perm , Christie's, Sale 7440, November 28, 2007, lot 284
• Haystack on the Volga , Christie's, Sale 6141, July 14, 1999, lot 20
• View of the Chusovaya River , Christie's, Sale 7283, November 29, 2006, lot 32

Individual evidence

Commons : Petr Vereshchagin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

1. ↑ artinvestment.ru
2. ↑ artnet.de
3. ↑ Koller Auction House, Zurich: 19th Century Paintings and Russian Art, Auction: Friday, September 18, 2009 ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.0 MB), description for lot 3230 
4. ↑ Entry in the Lost Art database  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the coordination office for the loss of cultural property  
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10. ↑ Hampel auction house, Munich, auction: July 4, 2008, cat.-no. 717  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ^ Hampel auction house, Munich, auction: March 23, 2007, cat. 210  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.