Viktor Alexandrowitsch Hartmann
Viktor Hartmann ( Russian Виктор Александрович Гартман * April 23 jul. / 5. May 1834 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † July 23 jul. / 4. August 1873 greg. In Kirejewo in Moscow ) was a Russian architect , sculptor and painter of German descent.
Life
Orphaned at an early age, Hartmann grew up in St. Petersburg in the house of an uncle, a well-known architect. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and first came out with book illustrations. Working as an architect, he contributed to the National Monument Thousand Years of Russia in Novgorod, inaugurated in 1862 . Most of the watercolors and pencil drawings were created on trips abroad between 1864 and 1868 . He was one of the first artists to include traditional Russian motifs in his work.
After Wladimir Stassow had introduced Hartmann into the group of five around Mili Balakirew , he had been a particularly close friend of the composer Modest Mussorgsky since 1870 . After Hartmann's early death at the age of only 39, more than 400 pictures were exhibited in the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in February and March 1874, which encouraged Mussorgsky to compose pictures at an exhibition ; a large part of the work on which this cycle is based has, however, been lost.
gallery
Design for the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 .
Costume sketches for the ballet Trilby by Marius Petipa and Yuli Gerber
Design for a city gate in Kiev
Web links
- Literature by and about Wiktor Alexandrowitsch Hartmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reproductions of Viktor Hartmann's pictures and MIDI audio samples
- Another page with reproductions
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SURNAME | Hartmann, Viktor Alexandrowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hartmann, Victor; Гартман, Виктор Александрович |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian architect, sculptor and painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1834 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1873 |
Place of death | Kirejewo near Moscow , Russian Empire |