Fyodor Bruni
Fyodor Antonovich Bruni, origin. Fidelio Bruni (Russian Фёдор ( Фиделио ) Антонович Бруни; born June 10, 1799 in Milan, .. † 30 Augustjul / September 11 1875greg in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian painter, printmaker and draftsman Italian descent.
Life and work
Fidelio Bruni was the son of Antonio Bruni (1767-1825), an Italian painter and sculptor. In 1807 he moved eight years old with his family to St. Petersburg, where Father Antonio Bruni as Anton Ossipowitsch Bruni (Russian Антон Осипович Бруни ) settled and worked until his death. Fidelio, now Fyodor Antonovich Bruni was called, was highly talented and visited me ten years already, the Russian Academy of Arts (also St. Petersburg Academy of Art ), where he studied in the studio of Alexei Jegorowitsch Yegorov ( Алексей Егорович Егоров ) and Vasily Kuzmich Schebujew ( Василий Кузьмич Шебуев ) and in 1818 his final examinations made . 1820 - 1836 he was in Italy back on the invitation of Princess Zinaida Wolkonskaja. Several works such as " The Death of Camilla, Sister of Horatio " (1820 ), " Rinzessin Zinaida Wolkonskaja in a costume of Tancred " ( 1820-22 ), " Bacchante are Cupid Wine " (1828 ) and " Madonna and Child" (1835 ) emerged during this period. Despite opportunities to further turn to the romantic painting, which he controlled and processed to some extent in his pictures, he remained faithful to the classicism and made both his own work as well as order copies of famous Italian frescoes ( like that of Raffaello Santi in the Vatican ). After his return he became a full professor of the Petersburg Kunstkakademie together with the age-matched Karl Briullov (Russian Карл Павлович Брюллов, 1799-1852 ).
In 1837 he painted " Alexander Pushkin in the Coffin", which received a high level of awareness by lithographic prints. 1838 Bruni returned again back to Italy to be monumental work (5.65 mx 8.52 m), is to complete the " Brazen Serpent" (Russian Медный Змей ), a biblical motif, and to bring in 1841 to St. Petersburg, where it is of the Hermitage was bought. Despite its high capacity, multi-figure, to create complex, detailed and expressive large paintings, his classical dogma was unfashionable. First of all it has orders such as the design and monitoring of frescoes in the St. Isaac's Cathedral ( Sobor Isaakiewskij ) in St. Petersburg, where he graduated in 1845. Bruni in 1855 became rector of the Russian Academy of Arts. As a result of his teaching went back his Malaktivität. His adherence to strict academic principles and ideas ( Academic ) distanced him from his students and the enlightened democratically oriented colleagues so that he gave up his position as rector in 1871 and retired to his estate, where he died in complete seclusion in 1875.