Richard Alexandrowitsch Bergholz
Richard Alexandrowitsch Bergholz ( Russian Ричард Александрович Берггольц , after a German transcription Richard Alexandrowitsch Berggolz ; born September 23, 1865 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † May 25, 1920 in Petrograd , Soviet Russia ) was a member of the Russian landscape painter, master of the Russian landscape painter, master of the Russian landscape painter Petersburg Art Academy (1920).
Life
Richard Bergholz, who came from a family of German descent, initially studied in the German-Russian St. Petri School (high school level) in Saint Petersburg. As a result, he attended high school in the then Russian cities of Pernow and Derpt . Richard Bergholz was finally able to develop his artistic passion at the St. Petersburg Art Academy. From 1884 to 1887 he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian with LJ Pelusé. He then studied for a year in Düsseldorf, Germany (1887–1888), with the German-Estonian painter and university professor Eugen Dücker . In 1889 Bergholz returned to Saint Petersburg.
Richard Bergholz achieved fame mainly as a landscape painter. His landscapes show the Russian land. The artist liked to travel to Estonia . From 1895 Bergholz was a member of the St. Petersburg Society of Artists; from 1898 member of the Imperial Society of Russian Painters; 1904 to 1918 then chairman of this society. He was also a founding member of the so-called Archip-Iwanowitsch-Kuindschi artists' association. In 1905 he achieved the rank of academic; since 1912 he was a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Art.
After the October Revolution of 1917 he entered the Narkompros (short for russ. Народный комиссариат просвещения РСФСР , dt . People's Commissariat of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR )) a. Richard Bergholz's works can now be viewed in the famous Tretyakov Gallery , the Russian Museum , the Russian Art Academy (Petersburg Art Academy) and others.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Richard Alexandrowitsch Bergholz. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergholz, Richard Alexandrowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berggolz, Richard Aleksandrowitsch; Берггольц, Ричард Александрович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1920 |
| Place of death | Petrograd , Soviet Russia |