Wassili Iwanowitsch Grigorowitsch

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Vasily Grigorovich 1818

Vasily Ivanovich Grigorovich ( Russian Василий Иванович Григорович , Ukrainian Василь Іванович Григорович Wassyl Iwanowytsch Hryhorowytsch * 1786 in Pyriatyn , Russian Empire ; † 3 May . Jul / 15. May  1865 greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire) was a Russian art critic and Art historian of Ukrainian origin.

Life

Vasily Grigorowitsch was born in Pyriatyn in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Poltava in 1786 and graduated from the Mohyla Academy in Kiev in 1803 . From 1824 he took an active part in the work of the Society for the Promotion of Artists in Saint Petersburg and between 1829 and 1854 he was its secretary. From 1828 Grigorowitsch was a professor and from 1829 to 1859 he was conference secretary of the Imperial Art Academy St. Petersburg .

In 1823 Grigorowitsch was the editor of the first Russian art magazine "Magazin der Feinen Kunst" ( Журнал изящных искусств ).

From 1839 he was an active member and from 1841 an honorary member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences .

Grigorowitsch had known Taras Shevchenko since 1835 , when he submitted his drawings to the Society for the Promotion of Artists and attended the drawing class there. Grigorowitsch was actively involved in the liberation of Shevchenko from serfdom , so Shevchenko dedicated the poem The Hajdamaks to him in memory of the day of his liberation in 1841 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on on m.day.kyiv.ua of January 22, 2015; accessed on March 22, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Wassyl Hryhorowytsch in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 22, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Brief biography on the website of the National Taras Shevchenko Museum , Kiev ; accessed on March 22, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Grigorowitsch, Wassili Iwanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Григорович, Василий Иванович (Russian); Hryhorowytsch, Wassyl Iwanowytsch (transcribed in Ukrainian); Григорович, Василь Іванович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian art critic and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyriatyn , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1865
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire