Wassili Iwanowitsch Sternberg

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Self-portrait Wassili Sternberg

Vasily Ivanovich Sternberg ( Russian Василий Иванович Штернберг Vasily Ivanovich Schternberg , Ukrainian Василь Іванович Штернберг Wassyl Iwanowytsch Schternberh ; born January 31 . Jul / 12. February  1818 greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire , † 8. September 1845 in Rome , Italy ) was a Russian Romantic painter . He was one of the founders of Ukrainian genre and landscape painting .

Life

Wassili Sternberg was born the son of a civil servant in Saint Petersburg. He studied at the Imperial Art Academy of Saint Petersburg and was included in the list of state academics in 1835. His teacher in the class of landscape and perspective painting was Maxim Vorobyov . During his studies, he also showed his extraordinary talent as a cartoonist , with whom he impressed lecturers and friends, including the writer Taras Shevchenko and the composer Mikhail Glinka .

Between 1836 and 1838 he worked in Ukraine every summer . He was there a guest on the estate of S. Grigorі Tarnowskyj in Kachanivka in Chernigov Governorate . During his travels in Ukraine, he became familiar with the Ukrainian folk tunes and nature, and reproduced them masterfully in his pencil drawings, watercolors and paintings. These award-winning works, mostly landscapes and everyday scenes, were even liked by the Russian Emperor Nicholas I , who bought one of his paintings for his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna (other sources name his daughter Marija Romanowa as the recipient).

Sternberg was one of Taras Shevchenko's closest friends. In 1840 he drew the frontispiece for the first edition of Shevchenko's collection of poems, Kobsar, as well as several portraits of the Ukrainian poet. Shevchenko dedicates the poem Ivan Pidkowa ( Іван Підкова ) to him in the Kobsar .

In 1839/1840 Sternberg took part in an expedition of the governor of the Orenburg governorate , Count Vasili Alexejewitsch Perowski (1795-1857). While touring the Urals , Bashkortostan and the Orenburg province, he made numerous sketches and drawings of the life and customs of the people in the places he visited.

He then went to Italy as a retired academic and settled in Rome, where he died in 1845 at the age of 27.

Works (selection)

Drawing in the first edition by Taras Shevchenko's Kobsar ; 1840
title year
Ярмарка в местечке Ичне Fair in the town of Itschnja
Освящение пасх в Малороссии Easter consecration in Little Russia 1838
Игра в жмурки в усадьбе Г. С. Tarnovsky Hide and seek in GS Tarnowski's estate
Усадьба Г.С. Тарновского в Качановке GS Tarnowski estate in Kachanivka 1837
Мельница в степи Mill in the steppe
Пастушок Young shepherd 1836-38
Малороссийский шинок Little Russian tavern 1837
Выдубецкий монастырь близ Киева Vydubetsky Monastery near Kiev
Переправа через Днепр под Киевом Crossing the Dnieper near Kiev 1837
Вид в Киеве View of Kiev
Вид на Подол в Киеве View of Podil in Kiev 1837
Итальянки у водоема Italian women at the pond
Итальянец-простолюдин Italian citizen
Римские пифферари Roman pifferari
Итальянские крестьяне, играющие в карты, в остерии Italian farmers playing cards in an osteria
Этюд головы молодого итальянца Study of the head of a young Italian
Этюд головы старика-итальянца Study of the head of an old Italian
Ozero Неми Lake Nemi
В окрестностях Альбано In the area of Albano
Этюд листьев Study on leaves

Sternberg's works can be found in the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the National Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kiev, in the museums of the cities of Sumy , Saint Petersburg and in the Pushkin Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Web links

Commons : Wassili Sternberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Wassili Sternberg in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 9, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d e entry on Wassili Sternberg in Brockhaus-Efron ; accessed on April 9, 2018 (Russian)
  3. ↑ Wassilij Iwanowitsch (Wilhelm) Sternberg on dorotheum.com October 2013; accessed on April 9, 2018
  4. ↑ Wassili Sternberg on museum.net.ua ; accessed on April 9, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Entry on Wassili Sternberg in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 9, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Sternberg, Wassili Iwanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schternberh, Wassyl Iwanowytsch (transcribed in Ukrainian); Штернберг, Василь Іванович (Ukrainian); Штернберг, Василий Иванович (Russian); Schternberg, Wassili Iwanowitsch (transcribed in Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian genre and landscape painter of the Romantic era
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1845
Place of death Rome , Italy