Oil painting People have a rest Ivan Fedorovich Schultze

№Vern 1430


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "People have a rest"
* ARTISTS: Ivan Fedorovich Schultze
* SIZE: 50x60 cm/'19.68x23.62 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artist: Ivan Fedorovich Schultze was born in St. Petersburg on October 21, 1874 in a family of Russified Germans (Schultze lived in Russia from the 18th century).

Schultze I.F. Russia.jpg

The influence of Kalam on Schultz
Having received an engineering education, Schultze was first interested not in art, but in electricity. He showed his first studies to Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky (1858–1911) when he was already over thirty. A well-known artist and member of the Academy of Fine Arts invited him to his studies. In addition to Kryzhitsky, Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1841-1910) and the Swiss painter Alexander Kalam (1810-1864) had a considerable influence on the formation of Schultze as an artist.

Together with Kryzhitsky Schultze traveled in 1910 on an expedition to about. Svalbard, where he painted a large number of Arctic landscapes dated this year (Danish and Bear Islands, St. Magdalena Bay of the Svalbard archipelago, etc.).


Schultze I.F. Lofotsky Islands in June. 1911
Close apprenticeship did not last long: in 1910, Kuindzhi dies, and in 1911 Kryzhitsky committed suicide. Having lost his teachers, the artist did not lose himself and set about developing his own artistic style.

One of the students of Kryzhitsky, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882-1960) founded the society of his memory after the death of the teacher, and Schultze repeatedly participated in his exhibitions held in her palace on ul. Sergeevskaya (now Tchaikovsky), d.46 / 48.


Schultze I.F. Shore at Semeiz. Postcard
By 1916, Ivan Fedorovich was widely recognized by the public: his work was bought by the Romanovs (brother of Nicholas II Mikhail Alexandrovich, Grand Duke Grigory Mikhailovich and others); Nicholas II himself, as Schultze later noted already in exile, did not interest landscapes and still lifes that did not tell any stories. Carl Faberge acquired several paintings (attested to in the inventory of his property in 1918). His success was greatly facilitated by the development of postcards: Schultze landscapes in "open letters" scattered throughout the country.