Vladimir Alexandrovich Beklemischew

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Vladimir A. Beklemishev

Vladimir Alexandrovich Spasskaya ( Russian Владимир Александрович Беклемишев ; born August 3 . Jul / 15. August  1861 greg. In Yekaterinoslav ; † 21st December 1919 in Novorzhev ) was a Russian sculptor and university lecturer .

Life

Beklemischew came from an old Russian aristocratic family . His father was the former hussar - Colonel Alexander Spasskaya that long in Rome lived there took the family name Redgio and after his return to Russia as a director and decorator of provincial opera houses and as a watercolorist worked. There were family ties to Prince Dmitri Poscharsky of the Troubled Times and General Mikhail Kutuzov of the Russian campaign in 1812 .

Soon after Beklemishev's birth, the family moved to Kharkov , so that Beklemishev attended the Second Municipal High School there. He received his first art lessons from his father and then from the local painter JJ Schraider and in the art school of MD Rajewski-Iwanowa.

In 1878 Beklemischew went to St. Petersburg and studied sculpture at the Art School of the Imperial Art Academy under Alexander von Bok and NA Lawerezki . By 1885 he had already received three small silver medals and one large silver medal for his work. In 1886 he received the Great Gold Medal from the Art Academy for his sculpture The Entombment , which was accompanied by a scholarship abroad. In January 1888 he traveled to Paris and then to Rome , where he especially created The Early Christian . He also made his first portrait - busts of.

In 1892 Beklemischew returned to St. Petersburg. For his Roman work he was accepted into the art academy. In the same year he exhibited his sculpture How beautiful, how fresh were the roses (according to IS Turgenev's story). In 1894 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the art college of the art academy. Anna Golubkina , Vsevolod Lischew , Matwei Maniser and Leonid Sherwood studied with him . In 1900 Beklemischew became a member of the Art Academy Council and in 1906 dean of the sculpture department of the Art Academy.

Beklemischew made numerous portrait sculptures, for example by Nikolai Beketow , Konstantin Makowski , Mitrofan Beljajew and Wassili Safonow . In 1914 he created the bust of the painter Archip Kuindschi , which was placed on his tombstone in St. Petersburg's Tikhvin cemetery . He designed large sculptures for monuments in public places, for example for Pyotr Tchaikovsky in front of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1897), Alexander Griboyedov in front of the Russian Embassy in Tehran , Yermak Timofejewitsch in Novocherkassk and Sergei Botkin (1908) in front of the Imperial Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg.

After the February Revolution of 1917 , Beklemishev became a member of the commission responsible for drafting a new constitution for the Art Academy in the summer of 1917, and the city of Petrograd's commissioner for the protection of historical and artistic monuments . After the October Revolution he was arrested by the Cheka in September 1919 because of his membership in the Constitutional Democratic Party and released again after 12 days. On December 1, 1919, he fled Petrograd to Novorschew , where he gave a lecture at the People's University . He suddenly died three weeks later.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vladimir Aleksandrovich Beklemishev (from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia , accessed March 26, 2016).
  2. ^ Beklemischew Vladimir Alexandrowitsch (Russian, accessed March 26, 2016).

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SURNAME Beklemischew, Vladimir Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beklemishev, Vladimir Aleksandrovich; Беклемишев, Владимир Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Yekaterinoslav , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1919
Place of death Novorschew