Robert Romanowitsch Bach

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Robert Romanowitsch Bach (WJ Sawinski, 1928)

Robert Romanovich (Robertovich) Bach ( Russian Роберт Романович (Робертович) Бах ; born February 9 . Jul / 21st February  1859 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 17th September 1933 in Leningrad ) was a Russian sculptor and university lecturer .

Life

Bach was the son of the artist and sculptor Roman Iwanowitsch (Robert-Heinrich) Bach. Bach attended the Petri School from 1872–1876 and the Annenschule from 1876–1879 . He was then a guest student at the Academy of Arts (ACh) in the sculpture department and studied with Alexander von Bock , Nikolai Akimowitsch Lawerezki and Iwan Iwanowitsch Podoserow . In 1979 he received a commendation for modeling a group of bears. In 1882 he received the Small Acknowledgment Medal for the wax modeling of the bas-relief Elf ( Russian Museum (GRM)). In 1884 he attended classes with Pavel Petrovich Tschistjakow . With the Great Recognition Medal for modeling after nature, he graduated in 1885 as Artist III. Class from.

In 1886 Bach was awarded a number of works, including the bas-relief Idyll and the Tschistjakow portrait (Research Museum of the ACh (NIMRACh)), artist II. With the statue Genius der Kunst for the building of the Imperial Society for the Advancement of the Arts in St. Petersburg, Bach became an academic in 1891 . He taught at the drawing school of the Society for the Promotion of the Arts and at the ACh art college. 1900–1917 he was a professor of decorative sculpture . In 1906 he became a full member of the ACh.

After the October Revolution , he continued teaching. He taught drawing and modeling at a middle school and at the Estonian Technical Center in Petrograd . 1926–1929 he was professor for monumental sculpture at the Higher Artistic-Technical Institute in Leningrad.

The architect Alexander Romanowitsch Bach (1853–1937), the sculptor Nikolai Romanowitsch Bach (1853–1885), the draftsman Konstantin Romanowitsch Bach (1857–1918) and the architect and watercolorist Evgeni Romanowitsch Bach (1861–1905) were Bach's brothers.

In 2009 the exhibition The Bach Family at the Academy of Arts was shown in St. Petersburg from February 18 to March 8 .

Works

Portrait bust :

FM Dostoyevsky , IA Krylow , IS Turgenev (1886, Pushkin House, St. Petersburg),

RI Bach (1889), WJ Sawinski (1901), WJ Makowski (1913) in NIMRACh,

Yulia Ivanovna Basanowa (1896) at the Museum of Medical History of the First Moscow State Sechenov -University of Medicine , among others

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Династия Бахов в Академии художеств (accessed March 19, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Eugen von Arb: Memorial plaque commemorates the German-Russian sculptor Robert Bach . In: Saint Petersburg Herald . February 9, 2009 ( [1] [accessed March 19, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Bach Roman Iwanowitsch (Robert Heinrich) (1819-1903). Sculptor (accessed March 18, 2019).
  4. ↑ Памятник Александру III в Иркутске. История (accessed March 19).
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Robert Romanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bach, Robert Robertowitsch; Бах, Роберт Романович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1933
Place of death Leningrad