Sylvester Feodosievich Shchedrin
Sylvester Feodosievich Shchedrin ( Russian Сильвестр Феодосиевич Щедрин ); * February 2nd jul. / February 13, 1791 greg. in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † October 27th July / November 8th 1830 greg. in Sorrento , ( Italy ) was a Russian landscape painter .
Life
Shchedrin was the son of the sculptor Feodosi Shchedrin , the rector of the Russian Academy in Saint Petersburg. His uncle was the landscape painter Semion Shchedrin . In 1800 he was admitted to the academy and studied landscape painting with his uncle Semion as well as Fyodor Alexejew , MM Ivanov and Thomas de Thomon. He completed his studies at the Petersburg Academy in 1811. He has received various prizes including the Great Gold Medal for his painting View from Petrovsky Island , with which he received a grant for a stay abroad.
Due to the Napoleonic Wars , Shchedrin's departure for Rome was delayed until 1818. On behalf of the Russian Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich Romanov , he went to Naples to make watercolors for two large views of the Gulf of Naples. His scholarship and thus his stay in Rome was limited until 1823. His most famous works from this period are his paintings as well as View from the Palatine Hill of the Colosseum and the Esquiline (1822) and The New Rome. The Castel Sant'Angelo from the year 1823rd
Shchedrin stayed in Rome as a freelance painter. With his painting from 1825 Lake Albano , he turned to the representation of nature. In the following years Shchedrin was a well-known artist who worked in Rome as well as in Naples and the surrounding area. He painted in nature ( en plein air ) and depicted coastal landscapes and night scenes by the sea. These eerie scenes are an expression of his steadily deteriorating health.
Works
Shchedrin's paintings remained in the majority in Italy, some can be seen in Russia.
- 1823–1825: The New Rome. Castel Sant'Angelo , Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
- 1828: Pergola by the sea , oil on canvas, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
In 1824, the Russian painter Karl Pavlovich Brjullow made a watercolor portrait of the artist in Rome, which can be seen today in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
literature
- Jevgenia Petrova et al. (Ed.): The light of Italy: Sylvester Shchedrin and his Russian Counterparts; Paintings and Drawings from the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg , Palace Editions, Bad Breisig 2007? ISBN 978-3-938051-82-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Sylvester Feodossijewitsch Schtschedrin in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shchedrin, Sylvester Feodosievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Щедрин, Сильвестр Феодосиевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter who worked in Italy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1830 |
| Place of death | Sorrento , Italy |