Ivan Trutnev
Ivan Petrovich Trutnev (Russian: Иван Петрович Трутнев, scientific transliteration Ivan Petrovich Trutnev; * 1827 in Lichwin in the government of Kaluga, .. † 4 Februarjul / February 17 1912greg in Vilnius) was a Russian painter and founder of the Vilnius school of painting at the Art Academy Vilnius.
Life
Born and raised in a farming family, he joined in 1845 the artists of Count Stroganov School in Moscow at. This he finished in 1849 with the ability to sign teacher. In the period from 1851 to 1858 he continued his education at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. There he studied with Professor Bogdan Pavlovich Willewalde.
In the years 1852-1854 he received in the context of student exhibitions for his pictures The wounded soldier and the French on Fire ( Больной солдат и французы у огня ) and play blind man's buff ( Игра в жмурки ) silver and gold medals. For his image of the farmer 's son who goes to war blesses ( Крестьянин благословляет своего сына в ополчение ) was awarded to him in 1855 a gold medal.
After completing his training at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, he was the basis of merit given the right to continue abroad him his education. In the period from 1860 to 1865 he toured several European cities including Vienna, Paris, Dresden and Antwerp.
After his return to Russia, he first taught drawing and calligraphy at the high school in Vitebsk. In 1866, he met Ivan Petrovich Kornilov know who wanted to found a school of painting in Vilnius, there to promote the development of an independent local art that should be different from the Russian. Trutnev followed this call and taught in Vilnius painting and drawing at various schools and led beyond these signs school.
Trutnev was a permanent participant to the initiated by the Peredvizhniki exhibitions. In 1868 he was made an honorary member.
In Vilna he painted views of the city and genre paintings, which are local issues devoted as Lithuanian tavern ( Литовская корчма ), fair in Kasimirowsk ( Казимировская ярмарка ) flea market in Vilnius ( Толкучий рынок в Вильне ) as well as scenes of European life. In addition, he painted pictures with church- historical background and pictures of official events visit of Alexander II in the local museum in Wilno ( Визит Александра II в Музее древностей в Вильне ) as well as portraits of official dignitaries of his time.
Another key area of his work was the painting of icons. He created icons for churches in the towns of the western provinces of the Russian Empire of his time, as happened in Minsk, Hrodna, Chernihiv, Lublin and Warsaw.
He also founded a school of artists, of which he took. She became the dominant artistic training facility in Lithuania the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. This school granted access without distinction of nationality, ethnicity or religion. The number of students grew steadily - from 100 in 1866 to over 4,000 in the early 20th century. In addition Trutnev taught at this school Vasily Grjasnow, Józef Bałzukiewicz, Tadas Daugirdas, Stanislaw Jarozki, Ivan Rybakov, Sergei Sergeyev - Juschanin and Nikolai Korobov.
The first training at the school were painters, graphic artists, sculptors, photographers of different styles and orientations. Among the students were, among others Vytautas Kairiūkštis, Bolesław Bałzukiewicz, Konstantin Gurski, Vlada Didžiokas, Juozas Zikaras, Lasar Segall, Chaim Soutine and many others.
In addition to his artistic and educational activities Trutnev was also active socially active. He was a founding member of the circle of artists of Lithuania and initiated exhibitions of the work of his students.