Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood

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Vladimir Ossipowitsch Sherwood (Self-Portrait, 1876, State Historical Museum, Moscow)

Vladimir Osipovich (Iosifovich) Sherwood ( Russian Владимир Осипович (Иосифович) Шервуд * August 18 jul. / 30th August  1832 greg. In Istlejewo, Kassimowski rayon , † July 9 jul. / 21st July  1897 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian painter , architect and sculptor .

Life

Sherwood's father Joseph (Ossip) Sherwood owned a cloth factory in Istlejewo in Tambov Governorate . Sherwood's grandfather William (Wassili) Sherwood came to St. Petersburg as an engineer from Greenwich in 1800 and worked in the Alexander Manufactory, so he stayed there. The maternal grandfather Nikolai Stepanowitsch Koschelewski was an architect and engineer. Sherwood's uncle Ivan Wassiljewitsch Sherwood-Werny was an officer in the Russian army and betrayed the Decembrists . When Sherwood was orphaned in 1838, his aunt DN Koschelewska took him on in Moscow . 1840-1848 he attended the Moscow Orphan Surveying School , where Pavel Petrowitsch Sykow taught architecture . The architecture school at the Moscow court office followed from 1848–1849. During this time he met Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol . After the architecture school, he studied at the Moscow Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture , graduating in 1857 as a freelance artist of landscape painting .

In 1860, Sherwood accepted Charles Dickens ' invitation to paint a family portrait of the Dickens family. In England he painted portraits and landscapes and designed experimental architecture projects. In 1865 he returned to Moscow and created portraits of Nikolai Christoforowitsch Ketscher , Fyodor Tyutchev , Ivan Jegorowitsch Sabelin , Sergey Solovyov , Vladimir Ivanovich Guerrier , Dmitri Ivanovich Ilowaiski , Fyodor Jewgenjewitsch Korsch and Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin . In 1868 he received the title Artist III from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts . Class for his painting Christ in Conversation with Nicodemus . The following year, with the exhibition of his portraits, he became an artist first class and in 1872 a member of the Academy of Arts.

Sherwood was also interested in sculpture and Old Russian architecture. In 1873 he was invited to the tender competition for a project for the building of the Historical Museum in the style of the 16th century analogous to the Kremlin on the basis of the program drawn up by the Museum Commission. In April 1874 , the Moscow City Duma designated the property on the north side of Red Square with the municipal building that was to be demolished for the construction of the museum . After the preliminary examination of the project in July 1874 and the examination of the seven submitted projects, Sherwood and the engineer Anatoly Alexandrovich Semyonov received the first prize in May 1875. For the sculpture The Bojan (The Singer) for the Historical Museum, Sherwood received an award at the All-Russian Exhibition in 1882.

When a new memorial to the heroes of Pleven was being discussed in 1880 , IJ Sabelin suggested Sherwood for the design of the memorial. According to the first draft, a chapel with a height of more than 20 m and four groups of sculptures was to be built on a hill near Pleven . In 1882 Sherwood reduced the size and replaced the sculptural groups with skin reliefs . In 1887 the Monument to the Heroes of Pleven on the Ilyinsky Vorota (Ilyinka Gate) Square in Moscow was decided.

In 1889 Sherwood erected the monument with a statue of Alexander II in Samara . In 1927 Alexander II was replaced by Lenin .

In 1897, Sherwood created the monument to the surgeon Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov in front of the surgical clinic on Great Pirogovskaya Street .

Sherwood was married with nine children. He was buried in the Staroye Donskoye cemetery . His sons Sergei and Vladimir were architects, while Leonid was a sculptor. His grandson Vladimir Andreevich Faworski was an artist and rector of WChUTEMAS .

Works

Web links

Commons : Wladimir Ossipowitsch Sherwood  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e ШЕРВУД, Владимир Осипович . In: Great Soviet Encyclopedia . tape 48 ( [1] accessed December 13, 2017).
  2. Шервуды в России (accessed December 13, 2017).
  3. Кириченко, Е. И .: Исторический музей: Путеводитель . Московский рабочий, Moscow 1984.