Oil painting On the mountain Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov

№Vernd 73


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "On the mountain"
* ARTISTS: Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov
* SIZE: 122x90 cm/'48.03x35.43 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

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About the artist: Ivan Alekseevich was born on January 10, 1870 in Vilnius (present-day Vilnius).

The mother of the artist was the famous English watercolorist Elizabeth Wackhorn. Father is a priest, at one time he worked as a librarian at the Moscow English Club. As a child, traveled alone in England and Polesie. He received an art education at the Vilnius drawing school of Ivan Trutnev. He studied at the St. Petersburg Junkers College, due to illness, left the service. In 1891-1893 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he specialized in Bogdan Villevalde, Alexei Kivshenko and Franz Roubaud.

He was an art correspondent during the Russian-Japanese (1904-1905), Balkan (1912-1913) and World War I. As he wrote, "In all my artworks, the main idea was to express the aspiration of our brave fighters to repel and destroy the hated, but strong and evil enemies of the Motherland." He is the author of cycles of paintings devoted to the Russo-Japanese War (“A Tool in Danger”, “Artillery Battle”, “Returned from the War”, “In Manchuria”, “Exploration into the Rain”, “Interrogation of the Prisoner”, “Strengthened Reconnaissance”), revolutionary events of 1905 (“At the Winter Palace”, “Fight on Presnya”, “At the barricades in 1905”), life compositions (“At the wood warehouse”, “Philanthropist”, “Grief”, “Inventor and capitalist”, “Name day” grandfather "), the First World War, sketches of military operations for the Niva magazine, watercolors, photographs. His drawings were printed by London Graphic - the world's first art illustrated magazine; he collaborates with French Illustration and a number of American magazines.

Vladimirov owns copies and sketches of the remains of the mural of the X — XI centuries of the Sentin temple in the Teberda gorge of Karachay-Cherkessia [5].

In the 1910s, he lived with his wife and two daughters at his dacha on Morskaya Street. Nowadays, the territory of the former Vladimirov’s dacha is part of the governor’s cottage of the village of Komarovo.

In 1917-1918, while working in the Petrograd police, he painted portraits of wanted criminals. He made a large cycle of documentary sketches of the events of 1917-1918 ("The Arrest of Tsarist Generals" (1918), "Petrograd. Spring 1918" (1918), etc.).

During the Great Patriotic War, he was in besieged Leningrad, prepared posters, made sketches and sketches, painted paintings (“Fight for Tikhvin”, 1943; “Fight on the streets of Berlin”, 1946), kept a diary of the blockade.

He died on December 14, 1947 in Leningrad at the 78th year of his life.

The works of I. A. Vladimirov are kept in the State Russian Museum [6], the State Tretyakov Gallery [4], in museums and private collections.