Viktor Alexandrowitsch Hartmann

Viktor Hartmann

Viktor Hartmann ( Russian Виктор Александрович Гартман * April 23 ^jul. / 5. May 1834 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † July 23 ^jul. / 4. August 1873 ^greg. In Kirejewo in Moscow ) was a Russian architect , sculptor and painter of German descent.

Life

Orphaned at an early age, Hartmann grew up in St. Petersburg in the house of an uncle, a well-known architect. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and first came out with book illustrations. Working as an architect, he contributed to the National Monument Thousand Years of Russia in Novgorod, inaugurated in 1862 . Most of the watercolors and pencil drawings were created on trips abroad between 1864 and 1868 . He was one of the first artists to include traditional Russian motifs in his work.

After Wladimir Stassow had introduced Hartmann into the group of five around Mili Balakirew , he had been a particularly close friend of the composer Modest Mussorgsky since 1870 . After Hartmann's early death at the age of only 39, more than 400 pictures were exhibited in the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in February and March 1874, which encouraged Mussorgsky to compose pictures at an exhibition ; a large part of the work on which this cycle is based has, however, been lost.

gallery

Design for the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 .
Costume sketches for the ballet Trilby by Marius Petipa and Yuli Gerber
Rich Jew
Poor Jew
The catacombs of Paris
Design for a city gate in Kiev

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personal data
SURNAME	Hartmann, Viktor Alexandrowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hartmann, Victor; Гартман, Виктор Александрович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian architect, sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	4th August 1873
Place of death	Kirejewo near Moscow , Russian Empire