Viktor Lazarev

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Viktor Nikitich Lazarev ( Russian Виктор Никитич Лазарев ; born August 22 . Jul / 3. September  1897 greg. In Moscow , Russian Empire ; † 1. February 1976 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) was a Russian art historian and author .

Life

Lazarev was born the son of Moscow architect Nikita Lazarev , who came from an old, wealthy Armenian family. He studied at Moscow University from 1916 to 1920 as a student of Nikolai Romanov, the founder of an independent science of art history in Russia. His teacher Dmitri Vlasewitsch Ainalow in St. Petersburg dealt with the development of Russian monumental art in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Lazarev stood up for the salvation of sacred works of art, which have been considered a sign of superstition since the revolution. Until 1924 he attended the Moscow Institute for Architecture and Art History. In 1925 he went on an extensive study trip to Italy, Turkey and various Balkan countries. Lazarew was a connoisseur of Byzantine, medieval Russian and Italian painting of the early Renaissance.

From 1924 to 1936, Lazarev was a curator in the painting department of the Pushkin Museum and from 1935 he was professor of art history at the Lomonosov University in Moscow. He taught at the Surikov Institute of Painting and the Art Academy in Moscow. During the Second World War he worked in besieged Leningrad on the development of optical methods for camouflage. In 1945, Lazarev headed the Russian delegation at the Central Collecting Point in Munich for a short time .

"" The art historian V. Lazarev in particular advocated not tearing up German collections and generally limiting the number of evacuations. ""

From 1947 he directed the restoration of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev , where some important frescoes fell victim to the German artillery during the Second World War . Lasarew was since 1943 a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , member of academies in Great Britain , Austria, at the Institute for Science, Literature and Art in Venice, at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In 1976 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR .

Works

  • The portrait in European art, Leningrad 1937
  • Novgorod's Art, Moscow 1947
  • History of Byzantine Painting, Moscow 1948
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Moscow 1952
  • The Origin of the Italian Renaissance, Moscow 1956–1959
  • Early Russian icons, Munich 1958
  • The mosaics of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Moscow 1960
  • Andrej Rublev, Moscow 1960
  • The mosaics of the Church of St. Michael's Monastery in Kiev, Moscow 1966
  • Theophanes, the Greek and his school, Dresden 1968
  • Novgorod icon painting, Moscow 1969
  • Medieval Russian painting, 1970
  • Icons of the Moscow School, Vienna 1978

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Craig Hugh Smyth, Repatriation of Art from the Collecting Point in Munich after World War II, Groningen 1988, p. 59
  2. ↑ Kristiane Burchardi, Christof Kalb, “Beutekunst” als Chance, Perspektiven der German-Russian Understanding, Munich 1998, p. 8 http://www.dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/publikationen/mitteilungen/mitt_38.pdf
  3. ^ Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Lazarew, Viktor Nikitich. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed June 25, 2020 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Lazarev, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lazarew, Viktor Nikitich; Лазарев, Виктор Никитич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1976
Place of death Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union