Karl Bryullov
Karl Pavlovich Briullov (Eng. also Briullov, Russian Карл Павлович Брюллов; * 12 Dezemberjul / December 23 1799greg in Saint Petersburg, .. .. † 11 Junijul / June 23 1852greg in Manziana ) was a Russian painter and architect. He painted mainly portraits, monumental painting, but also genre paintings and watercolors. He was the first Russian painter, the international recognition was bestowed. He is considered a key figure in transition from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism.
Life
Karl Briullov was born the son of Pawel Brulleau, a Russian of French descent, who in turn was the great-grandson of a Frenchman named George Brulleau, who emigrated to Russia in the 18th century, and of Maria Ivanovna Schreder, a Russian-Germans. From 1809 to 1821 he was educated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He was informed, inter alia, by Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov. There he was awarded a gold medal in the category of history painting.
After completing his studies, he was sent from funds of the Society for the Promotion of artists in 1822 to Italy. In 1823 he went with his brother to Rome, where he received an imperial order was granted to copy Raphael's School of Athens in the size of the original (now in the academic collection ).
He also visited Dresden and Munich before settling in Rome. Here the genre painting Italian morning ( Итальянское утро ) in 1823 and Italian lunch originated ( Итальянский полдень ) four years later. In the period 1827-1833 he worked on a monumental paintings with historical subject which would become his most famous work - The Last Day of Pompeii ( Последний день Помпеи ). It was created from the description of Pliny the Younger an excellent character through beautiful drawings and vivid color paintings ( Hermitage at St. Petersburg ). Coloristically as by the unsought highlighting the purely human, this work has yet to be surpassed by the following ( 1834), the assassination of Inês de Castro ( in the collections of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts ).
The painting The Last Day of Pompeii was compared with the best works of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, and made Briullov as one of the most important European painters.
After completion of this painting Brjullow traveled to Greece and Turkey and Palestine back to Russia. On this trip numerous landscape paintings were created. In Russia, he took an important function in the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and taught there from 1836 to 1848 together with Fyodor Antonovich Bruni. During this time the paintings are The Siege of Pskov ( Осада Пскова - 1839-1843; unfinished) ( собор Исаакиевский; 1843-1847 ), St. Isaac's Cathedral, portrayed contemporaries and drew a self-portrait ( Автопортрет ) 1848 A number of his works is now in the. possession of the Hermitage Museum and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. This is primarily for portraits and genre paintings. In addition, he created for the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg the painting Ascension and he painted the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg from.
Over time, Brjullows health had greatly deteriorated. In 1849 he left Russia and went to medical treatment to Madeira. 1850 Brjullow came back to Italy. Here he died in June 1852 in Manziana at Rome and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.