Wassili Wassiljewitsch Wassiljew

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Vasily Vasilyevich Vasilyev ( Russian Василий Васильевич Васильев ; born March 14 . Jul / 26. March  1827 greg. In Ivashkova , Kostroma , † April 30 jul. / 12. May  1894 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian academic painter and graphic artist , who gained fame during his lifetime as a sought-after icon and fresco painter .

biography

Wassiljew, offspring of a serf family from the Kostroma governorate, received his artistic training from 1831 in the studio of the respected icon painter Makar Poschechonow (1792-1852) in Saint Petersburg, before he was admitted to the Russian Art Academy in 1847 . After his successful graduation in 1851, he initially acquired a certain reputation as a history and portrait painter , but returned to religious painting in 1858, which largely determined his future work. His work is characterized by the consistent use of Byzantine models, which generally had a great influence on Russian religious painting and historicist architecture (see also Neo-Byzantine architecture ).

Vasilyev lived and worked in Saint Petersburg and was an active member of the artists' association (Russian Санкт-Петербургское собрание художников ) there. Besides his work as icon and fresco painter he gave 1875 to 1878 the short-lived monthly magazine Эскизы архитектуры и художественной промышленности (in German "sketches for Architecture and Decorative Arts ") out of the St. Petersburg architect Nikolai Nabokov (1838-after 1907) edited was and in which he mainly published templates for ornaments .

Catalog raisonné

Icon of Our Lady of All Sorrowful Joy (1891), Yaroslavl Art Museum

Wassiljew left behind an extremely rich work, which, however , was severely decimated in the course of anti-religious propaganda in the Soviet Union and the massive destruction of churches and their furnishings in the 1920s and 1930s. Most of his icons are therefore no longer at their original location or have been lost.

Works in the Russian Empire

  • Church of Our Lady of Smolensk in the Smolenskoye Orthodox Cemetery, Saint Petersburg , dome fresco (1858)
  • Chapel of St. Tikhon of Sadonsk in Mitrofan- Metochi , Saint Petersburg, painting (1860, destroyed)
  • Church of the Archangel Michael at the Alexander Plant, Saint Petersburg (1860–62, destroyed), icons
  • Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Eye Clinic, Saint Petersburg (not preserved), icon of St. Tikhon of Sadonsk (1862)
  • Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in the Alexander Institute, St. Petersburg, icons (1866)
  • Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene, Warsaw (1867–69), mural "Last Supper" (destroyed)
  • Church of St. Alexandra at the Alexandra Nikolayevna orphanage, Saint Petersburg (1868/69, destroyed), icons
  • Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mother in the Mariinsky Palace (1869–72, not preserved), Saint Petersburg
  • Boris and Gleb Church, Saint Petersburg (1869–82, destroyed), icons
  • Church of the Dormition of the Virgin on Sennaya Square (destroyed), Saint Petersburg, wall paintings and icons (1869–71)
  • Church of the Trinity Monastery of the Sisters of Mercy, Saint Petersburg (1872/73, not preserved), icons
  • Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Łódź (1880–84), icons
  • Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Craft School, Saint Petersburg, Icon of the Protection and Intercession (1881)
  • Church of the Merciful Savior in the Mitrofansky Cemetery, icons (1883)
  • Church of the Prophet Elias in Novodevichy Convent, Saint Petersburg (1884–88), icons
  • Church of St. Sergius and German von Valaam of the Tsar Alexander II Cadet School, Saint Petersburg (1889, not preserved), painting and icons
  • Church of St. George in the General Staff building (not preserved), painting (1889/90)
  • Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, Saint Petersburg , Golgotha ​​Group (together with Nikolai Nikonov , 1891)
  • Church of Metropolitan Peter, Yaroslavl , Icon of Our Lady of All Sorrowful Joy (1891), 43 × 34.5 cm, today Yaroslavl Art Museum

Works outside of Russia

  • Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Alexandra Pavlovna Romanova , Nice (1858–60), icons of iconostasis
  • Church of the Holy Sepulcher of Tsarina Alexandra Pavlovna Romanowa, Budapest- Üröm, icons of iconostasis (1883)
  • Church of St. Barbara, Vevey (1873–78), 39 medallion frescoes with portraits of saints and ornamental paintings
  • Church of the Annunciation of the Mother of God at the Court of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, London , Icons for Iconostasis (1878)

Other works

  • Christ and the Sinner (1887), oil on cardboard, 32.5 х 42.5 cm, offered at SOWKOM, Moscow, auction no.17, October 28, 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ^ St. Petersburg Association of Artists in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian ), accessed on May 31, 2015
  2. ↑ Antonov, Kobak, churches and monasteries in Europe , S. 166/167
  3. ^ SS. Boris & Gleb's Church in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian ), accessed on May 31, 2015
  4. ↑ Antonov, Kobak, churches and monasteries in Europe , p 184
  5. ↑ Собор Божией Матери Казанской (Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan) in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian ), accessed on May 31, 2015
  6. ↑ Христианство в искусстве. Retrieved October 4, 2009 (Russian).
  7. ↑ Antonov, Kobak, churches and monasteries in Europe , page 294
  8. ↑ Antonov, Kobak, churches and monasteries in Europe , page 43
  9. ↑ Antonov, Kobak, churches and monasteries in Europe , p 326
  10. ↑ Antonov, Kobak, churches and monasteries in Europe , p 336
  11. ↑ Лот №2 - Христос и грешница. In: Аукционный Дом СОВКОМ. Retrieved October 4, 2009 (Russian).

literature

  • Вольценбург, Оскар Эдуардович [Bol'cenburg, Oskar Eduardovič]: Васильев, Василий Васильевич [Vasil'ev, Vasilij Vasil'evič] . In: Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь [Chudožniki narodov SSSR. Bibliografičeskij slovar '] . tape 2 . Москва [Moskva] 1972, p. 181 .
  • Viktor Wassiljewitsch Antonow, Alexandr Valerjewitsch Kobak: Русские храмы и обители в Европе (German: Russian churches and monasteries in Europe) . Лики России (Faces of Russia), Saint Petersburg 2005, ISBN 5-87417-208-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wassiljew, Wassili Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Васильев, Василий Васильевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivashkovo , Kostroma Governorate
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1894
Place of death St. Petersburg