Wassili Iwanowitsch Demut-Malinowski

Wassili Iwanowitsch Demut-Malinowski (Museum of the Russian Art Academy )

Vasily Ivanovich humility-Malinowski ( Russian Василий Иванович Демут-Малиновский ; born March 2 ^{. Jul} / 13. March  1778 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † July 16 ^jul. / 28. July  1846 ^greg. ) Was a Russian sculptor of the Russian Empire and university professor .

Life

Demut-Malinowski's father was a picture carver , so the son was familiar with sculpture from a young age . In 1785 the son began training at the St. Petersburg Academy of the Arts . Demut-Malinowski studied there with Michail Iwanowitsch Koslowski . He received the Small Silver Medal in 1798 and the Large Silver Medal in 1799. Thereupon he received the small gold medal for the bas-relief The angel leads Peter out of prison in 1799. At the end of his studies in 1800 he received the Great Gold Medal as a member of a group of sculptors who made the bas-reliefs for Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli's monument to Peter I at the Michaelsburg . When Koslowski died in 1802, the President of the Academy of Arts Alexander Sergejewitsch Stroganow announced a competition for Koslowski's grave monument. Demut-Malinowski won the competition and received a second great gold medal.

In 1803, Demut-Malinowski was sent to Italy with other graduates from the Academy of Arts for further studies of Western art and architecture from ancient Rome . Demut-Malinowski began work there on the bas-relief Heracles and Omphale , the statue of Narcissus and busts . He invested a lot of time and effort in the art of marble working . In 1806 he returned to St. Petersburg, but the works he had brought with him were lost along the way.

Back in St. Petersburg, Demut-Malinowski with his new statue of the prophet Elijah was accepted as a member of the Academy of Arts in 1807. In 1808 he was appointed adjunct professor. Mainly he now worked on the decoration of the public buildings in St. Petersburg. Through his collaboration with the architect Andrei Nikiforowitsch Voronichin , Demut-Malinowski was involved in the design of the lantern cabinet of the Pavlovsk Palace (1807), for which he created two caryatids . He created sculptures like Ivan Petrowitsch Martos and Stepan Stepanowitsch Pimenow for the Kazan Cathedral and the Mining Institute , which Voronikhin built, as well as for the stock exchange . In 1811 he created a statue of Andrew for the Kazan Cathedral and the robbery of Proserpina for the Mining Institute . Together with Pimenow and Feodossi Fyodorowitsch Shchedrin, he designed the sculptural decorations for the General Staff Building (1812–1814). In 1813 he created the Russian Scaevola to commemorate the Russian peasant who, on the run from captivity, did without his hand in order to avoid being marked as unfree. In 1814 he created the grave monument for Voronikhin in the Tikhvin cemetery ( necropolis of the 18th century) at the Alexander Nevsky monastery .

Cooperation with Pimenov was until his death in 1833. During this time, the sculptural decoration of was Jelagin - Palais and the Mikhailovsky Palace . In his last years he worked on the stucco decoration in the Winter Palace and in the building of the Academy of Arts. In 1833 he was appointed professor. In 1836, after the rector of the Martos Academy, Demut-Malinowski became rector of the sculpture department. He created a monument to Catherine II. For the Manor Troizkoje Kainardji Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev Sadunaiskis in Balashikha that now in Schtschussuew is -Architekturmuseum. From 1838 until his death he worked on the monument to the Russian national hero Ivan Sussanin , which was then erected in Kostroma . He created the bust of Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly for the monument erected in Dorpat in 1849 . Together with Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg he worked on the monument of St. Vladimir in Kiev and on the statues of the Narva triumphal arch in St. Petersburg.

Demut-Malinowski's bronze bulls adorned the St. Petersburg beef slaughterhouse and later the entrance gate of the constructivist Kirov meat combine. His cast-iron German knights and Russian warriors adorn the facade of the White Tower in Alexander Park in Tsarskoye Selo . He had made 43 copper statues for the neo-Gothic Alexander Nevsky Chapel in the Alexander Park of Peterhof Palace .

Demut-Malinowski's daughter married the sculptor Samuil Friedrich Halberg .

Demut-Malinowski was buried in St. Petersburg in the Tikhvin cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

Works

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  Andrew, Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg

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  Rape of Proserpine , entrance to St. Petersburg State Mining University

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  Gate of the General Staff Building, St. Petersburg

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  Russian Scaevola, Russian Museum

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  Barclay de Tolly monument, Dorpat

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  Bronze bull, Moskovskoye Schosse 13k1, St. Petersburg

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  Vladimir Monument, Kiev

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  Narva Triumphal Arch, St. Petersburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Метрические книги церквей С.-Петербурга ... Вознесения Господня при Адмиралтейских слободах ... "Столярного дела мастера Ивана Демута сын Василий ..." (.... ЦГИА СПб ф.19 оп.111 д.84).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Дмитриенко А. Ф., Кузнецова Э. В., Петрова О. Ф., Федорова Н. А .: 50 биографий мастеров русского искусства . Аврора, Leningrad 1971, p. 80 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Brockhaus-Efron (rulex.ru): Демут-Малиновский Василий Иванович (accessed on July 20, 2018).
4. ↑ Александрова Л. Б .: Василий Иванович Демут-Малиновский, 1779–1846 . Художник РСФСР, Leningrad 1980.
5. ↑ ГМЗ "Павловск": Кабинет Фонарик (accessed July 23, 2018).
6. ↑ Citywalls: Мясокомбинат им. С. М. Кирова - АО "Самсон" (accessed July 23, 2018).
7. ↑ Белая башня (accessed July 23, 2018).