Biography Orest Kiprensky

Dyakonova, was born on March 13 24 years at the Estate of the Nezhinsky Oranienbaum district of the St. Petersburg province later-the Yamburg district, now-the village of Telnozhovo, Kingiseppsky district of the Leningrad region. According to the documents, he was recorded in the family of serf Adam Schwalbe. Having received free in the year, he was enrolled in an educational school at the St.

Petersburg Academy of Arts under the name of Kiprensky. He studied at the academy up to a year. It was awarded medals for successful work: small silver, large silver; Two small gold medals one for the program “Jupiter and Mercury visited Philion and Bavkida” and the second for the sketch of the monument to the deceased professor of sculpture Kozlovsky. He received a large gold medal on the task of “introducing the Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy, when, upon the victory over Mamai, the remaining princes and other warriors find him in the grove at the last almost breathing” received a certificate of 1st degree and a spaces at the Academy, was left at the Academy.

He was appointed adviser to the Imperial Academy of Arts renamed the 2nd degree of the Academy of Arts of the Academy of Arts lived in Moscow for a year, Tver for a year, St. Petersburg, and in - from a year in Rome and Naples. Arriving in Italy, he took the prospects of Angelo Tozelli in Bologna.

In July, three months before his death, Kiprensky marries Anna-Maria Falkucci, the artist’s muse for almost 20 years, for which he first had to accept Catholicism. Her children's portrait was written by an artist in the year under the name "A girl of a beautiful face in a wreath of a poppy with a flower in her hand." The daughter of the artist Clotilda was born after his death.

The story is connected with the Falkucci family, which laid out an imprint on the fate of the artist. Anna-Maria Falkucci genus. She died of burns. On it lay a canvas, doused with turpentine and set on fire. Deaf rumors crawled around Rome. Kiprensky claimed that the model was killed by a servant. The slow Roman police launched an investigation after the death of the servant and, of course, did not establish anything.

The Roman inhabitants, and behind them, some of the artists openly said that the model was not a servant, but Kiprensky. Rome turned away from the artist. When he went outside, the boys threw stones at him from behind the fences and whistled, and the neighbors-artisans and merchants-threatened to kill. Kiprensky could not stand the bully and fled from Rome to Paris.

” Leaving Italy, Kiprensky in writing turned to Cardinal Gonzalvi with a request to determine the girl in a monastery boarding house. And left the money to educate orphans. The rumor about the murder came here. The doors slammed by hostilely in front of him. The exhibition of paintings arranged by him in Paris was indifferent. Newspapers said nothing about her. Kiprensky was thrown out of society.

He hid the grudge. There was no return to Italy. Paris did not want to notice him. There is only one place left on the ground, where he could leave to forget himself from terrible days and take up the brush again. It was Russia, an abandoned homeland, seeing its flowering and glory. " The artist died in Rome on October 17 from pneumonia and was buried in the church of Sant Anrea Delle Fratte in Rome.

Over the tombstone there is a stele with the inscription: “In honor and in memory of Orestes Kiprensky, the most famous among Russian artists, professor of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and a member of the Neapolitan Academy, Russian artists, architects and sculptors put them on their own expense, how many of them were in Rome, mourning the light of their people and so much virtuously virtuous Soul ...

”The monument to the famous artist in his homeland in the village of Tenderovo was erected on March 24. The authors are members of the Union of Artists, graduates of the Academy of Arts. Repin - Dmitry Shcherbakov and Sergey Sergeev. Additional information: The artpanorama gallery for its exposition will buy paintings and graphics of the artist of Kiprensky Orest Adamovich. Photos of paintings can be sent to Artpanorama Mail.