Egor ( Georgy ) Ilyich Kovrigin ( May 19 (31), 1819 , Korbulaki , Saratov province - September 3 (15), 1853 , Rome ) - Russian artist, lithographer.
| Egor Kovrigin | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | George Ilyich Kovrigin |
| Date of Birth | May 19 (31), 1819 |
| Place of Birth | Korbulaki , Saratov province |
| Date of death | March 3 (15), 1853 (33 years old) |
| Place of death | Rome |
| Citizenship | Russian empire |
| Genre | historical and mythological painting, illustrations |
| Study | Imperial Academy of Arts |
| Style | academism, salon painting |
Biography
Born in the village of Korbulaki , Saratov province, May 21 (31), 1819. The son of a Morshansk tradesman, later the St. Petersburg 3rd guild of the merchant, he was brought by his parents to St. Petersburg as a three-year-old boy and was educated in a Reformed school. At the end of the scientific course in 1835 , he attended classes at the Academy of Arts and in 1839 even exhibited a sketch from an old man’s head in it, and in 1840 and 1841, he was a free-coming student of the Academy and earned silver medals from her: 2nd for drawing from nature and the 1st - for painting, after which he made sketches of programs for the 2nd gold medal: “Death of Alcibiades ” in 1843 and “ Achilles mourns the death of Patroclus ” in 1845.
For the almanac "Ladies' Album" (St. Petersburg, 1844), which includes selected pages of Russian poetry, Kovrigin performed a number of lithographs , including a portrait of Lermontov , which is based on the last lifetime of the poet - a watercolor by Kirill Gorbunov . Kovrigin's autolithographs were the first book illustrations to Lermontov’s works.
In the same year, he illustrated the 15th lithograph with scenes of a translation of London Secrets. Having written more: “Moses” and “The Death of Archimedes” and being released from the Academy with the title of artist of the XIV class, he went abroad at his own expense and took up Rome, in addition to writing sketches and composing sketches, also performing copies from Raphael’s “ Wedding of the Virgin Mary ” (granted in 1850 by Emperor Nicholas I of the Academy).
Having presented his painting “The Vestal” (written around 1850) to the Academy in 1852 to receive the title of academician, he was elevated only to “designated ones”, after which he began to process a more extensive composition in Rome: “ Ovid reads his works at the Forum”, but he died suddenly. He was buried at Testaccio cemetery .
Links
- http://feb-web.ru/feb/lermenc/Lre-abc/lre/lre-2262.htm
- http://www.rulex.ru/rpg/portraits/22/22826.htm
- http://artru.info/ar/8426/
- http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biography/57057/Kovrigin
- Prisoners of Beauty. Russian academic and salon art, 2004
- House I. Kovrigin. 6th line of VO, 21 . Date of treatment December 12, 2013.