Sachari Sograf
Sachari Sograf (actually: Sachari Christowitsch Dimitrow, Bulgarian Захарий Христович Димитров ; * around 1810 in Samokow ; † July 14, 1853 ibid) was a Bulgarian artist and icon painter in the era of the National Revival of Bulgaria .
Life
Sograf was born around 1810 as the son of the founder of the Samokow School of Painting, Christo Dimitrov . Dimitrov learned icon painting in Hilandar Monastery and went to Vienna around 1790, where he was trained as a master. He later taught icon painting to his sons. After the early death of his father, Sachari worked in the workshop of his older brother Dimiter , from whom he separated in 1842 and then worked independently. During this time the clergyman Neofit Rilski became his mentor .
One of the earliest independent works by Sograf are the frescoes in the Sveti Konstantin-i-Elena Church in Plovdiv . It is his greatest merit to have given new inspiration to the stagnating Bulgarian church painting. He mixed influences from Western European and Russian art with the church art of his home country, which was closely based on the old Byzantine style, and thus brought the everyday world into church painting. His works represent the transition from church to profane painting in Bulgaria. He was unusually productive and created hundreds of works in his short life, including in the monasteries of Batschkowo (1841), Rila (1842/46), Trojan (1847) / 49) and Preobrajenski (1851). In 1851 and 1852 he spent on Mount Athos and painted the outer narthex in the monastery of Megisti Lavra . After his return to Samokow in 1853, Sograf fell ill with typhus and succumbed to the disease at the age of only about 43 years.
literature
- Zograf, Zacharij . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947.
Web links
- Sacheri Sograf in the encyclopedia of the Russian Orthodoxy Church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rumiana Kirilova: 200 години от рождението на - Захари Зограф. Bulgari, June 2010, p. 34 f. (Bulgarian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sograf, Sachari |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dimitrov, Sachari Christowitsch (real name); Zograph, Zakhary Khristovich; Zograf, Zacharij Christovič; Zograf, Zahari; Zograf, Zacharij; Dimitrov, Zacharij Christovič; Zograph, Christo Zachari |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian icon painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Samokov |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1853 |
| Place of death | Samokov |