Wassili Dmitrijewitsch Polenow

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Wassili Dmitrijewitsch Polenow ( IJ Repin , 1877, Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow)

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov ( Russian Василий Дмитриевич Поленов ., Scientific transliteration Vasilij Dmitrievič Polenov ; born May 20, . Jul / 1. June  1844 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 18th July 1927 in Borok, Tula Governorate ) was a Russian painter and educator .

Life

Polenow came from an aristocratic family with many children . His father Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Polenow was a historian , archaeologist and diplomat . His uncle Matwei Wassiljewitsch Polenov was one of the reformers of the Russian judicial system. His younger sister Jelena Dmitrijewna Polenowa was a painter and illustrator .

Grandmother's Garden (1878)

He received his education at the grammar school in Petrozavodsk . He then enrolled at the St. Petersburg Art Academy and studied with Pavel Petrovich Tschistjakow , among others . In 1869 he was awarded a gold medal for his painting Job and his friends (Иов и его друзья). The following year he received another gold medal for his work Христос воскрешает дочь Иаира .

In 1872 he finished his studies at the law faculty of St. Petersburg University at the same time . After that he decided to go abroad. He visited Vienna , Munich , Venice , Florence and Naples . He also lived in Paris for a long time . There his painting Арест графини д''Этремон was created .

In 1876 he returned to Russia. Soon afterwards he went to the Russo-Turkish War , during which he became the official court painter at the Tsarist headquarters of Alexander III. has been. After the end of the war, he settled in Moscow , from where he embarked on another extended journey in 1884, which took him to Istanbul , Palestine , Syria and Egypt .

After returning to Russia again, he became a member of the Peredwischniki , the cooperative of artists in traveling exhibitions . Since the 1870s, Polenow worked increasingly in the field of painting theatrical decorations.

From 1882 to 1895 he taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture . His students included u. a. Isaak Lewitan , Konstantin Alexejewitsch Korowin , Ilja Semjonowitsch Ostrouchow and Abram Jefimowitsch Archipow .

Polenow died in Borok, a village in Tula Oblast in 1927. His works are mainly of historical painting , the landscape painting assign and genre painting.

Works (selection)

  • Door to the golden terrace of the Terem Palace (around 1900), oil on canvas, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  • Grandmother's Garden ( Бабушкин сад , 1879 )
  • Summer (Лето)
  • The big one (Большая)
  • Overgrown pond (Заросший пруд)
  • Christ and the sinner (Христос и грешница)
  • Walker on a forest path
  • The sick (Больная)
  • The golden autumn (Золотая осень)

Web links

Commons : Vasiliy Polenov  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ПОЛЕНОВ Василий Дмитриевич (accessed January 13, 2018).
  2. ↑ Василий Дмитриевич Поленов (Vasily Polenov) (accessed January 13, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Polenow, Wassili Dmitrijewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Поленов, Василий Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter and educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1927
Place of death Borok, Tula Governorate