Artemy ( Arthur ) Lavrentievich Ober (March 10 (22), 1843 , Moscow - October 4 (17), 1917 , Petrograd ) - Russian sculptor, academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts .
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- 1 Ober family. Moscow
- 2 Creativity. Petersburg
- 3 Gallery of works
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Ober family. Moscow
Artemy (Arthur) Lavrentievich Ober was born in Moscow, belonged to a well-known family.
His father, Laurent Auber (French by birth, Lavrenty Nikolayevich Ober, 1802, Moscow - 1884, Moscow) served in the theater department from 1845, and since 1872 was the manager of the Office of the Imperial Moscow Theaters. [2] L. N. Ober was acquainted with A. S. Pushkin and in 1880 wrote memoirs about him: "My acquaintance with Pushkin." [3]
My grandfather, Nikolai Ober, arrived in Moscow in the 1790s, as the attorney of Count Louis Gilly. In 1793, Nikolai Ober bought in Moscow House No. 6 on Glinischevsky Lane , owned by the Ober family until 1917. [4] In 1803, Nikolai Ober became famous in Moscow, as "he became a participant in an extraordinary spectacle - he rose with Jacques Garnerin in a balloon from a field near the Krutitsky barracks and sank not far from the Ostafyevo estate near Moscow ”. [5]
Grandmother - the famous French fashion designer Marie-Rose Ober-Chalmé in Moscow, who kept shops in Moscow, known for the fact that in 1812 Napoleon personally personally invited the Kremlin to talk. [6]
Artemy Ober studied in Moscow, at the classical gymnasium and at Moscow University , at the medical faculty . The elder brother is the architect and restorer A. L. Ober .
Creation. Petersburg
From 1870 he lived in St. Petersburg.
In the years 1864-1865. and in 1870-1872. attended the Imperial Academy of Arts . In 1864 he left to study in Paris, which the French-Prussian war of 1870 forced him to leave (he left the capital of France with the last train going to Belgium). [7] Ober's teacher in Paris was Antoine Louis Bari , who appreciated his student and considered him more gifted than his fellow practitioner E. Fremier .
In 1872, he first exhibited his works at the academic exhibition: “The Lion Devouring the Gazelle”, “The Dog” and “The Bashkir Horse”. Of Ober’s other works of this time, there is a bust of Empress Catherine II, in the square of Obukhov Hospital , the sculptural group “Russian Knight”.
Received the title of academician of sculpture (1893) [1] for the sculpture "Wolf" , "Dog" , etc.
In 1894, he married his niece, Natalia Frantsevna Weber (1867 -?). In 1894-1899 he lived and worked in Paris, spent the summer in Brittany. The casting of his work was done in the ceramic workshop of A. Bigot.
Member of the Union of Russian Artists (since 1909) and the Society of the World of Art (c 1910; one of the founders of the recreated association). He was a close friend of the artist A.N. Benois . [8]
Known as a master of small animalistic plastics, characterized by the accuracy of transmission of field observations. Among the works: the equestrian group “Kyrgyzstan smoking a pipe” (cast iron, 1872), “Greyhound with a fox” (wax, 1879; bronze, 1881) [9] , “Bull-winner” (wax; bronze, 1885), “Brown bears ”(1893) [9] ,“ Breton (Woman with chickens) ”(1898-1900),“ Faun's mask ”(sketch of a decorative dish, 1900; all are tinted gypsum), other works . He created a large number of bronze, wax and gypsum figures of various animals.
He was close to Russian symbolism. Notable works of Russian symbolism include the allegorical composition “Disaster” (1886), and the works - “fantasy” - “Medusa-Gorgon” (terracotta decorative dish, 1898), “Sea Monster” (dish, ceramics, 1898).
Among the monumental works of A. Ober are known:
- horse figure for the monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky in Kiev (the monument was created according to the project of M.O. Mikeshin ; installed in 1888),
- decorative sculpture for the Singer House in St. Petersburg (1902-04),
- sculpture for the Borodino bridge in Moscow (1912),
- monument to the defenders of Poltava and the commandant of the fortress A. S. Kelin in Poltava , (1909).
- Two bronze bears at the entrance to the office of the K. B. Siegel Mechanical Plant in St. Petersburg (1902) [10]
He died in Petrograd in 1917.
The sculptor’s widow, N.F. Aubert, donated a significant amount of her husband’s works to the Russian Museum in 1935.
Gallery of works
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 List of Russian artists for the anniversary directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts, 1915 , p. 265.
- ↑ RBS / VT / Ober, Lavrenty Nikolaevich - Wikisource
- ↑ “Russian Courier” for 1880, No. 158, “Rumor” of 1880, No. 164.
- ↑ House, end of the 18th century, arch. MFKazakov - classicism style house | Discover Moscow
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/telegraph/history/449/ , see also T. Rudenko. Fashion stores and milliners in Moscow in the first half of the 19th century. Moscow, 2015.
- ↑ Chapter 10. The Second Martyshkin Summer. A. L. Ober. . Alexander Nikolaevich Benois
- ↑ A. N. Benois. My diary. 1916-1917 - 1918. Moscow, 2003. C by decree.
- ↑ 1 2 Elena Karpova. “An animal painter by nature, by vocation, by consciousness ...” // Science and life . - 2017. - No. 12 . - S. 111-117 .
- ↑ K. B. Siegel Mechanical Plant Hydraulics Plant Chronotron Time Electronic Devices Plant, Brick, Architect Kitner I.S., Berzen R. A., Dostoevsky St., 40-44 . www.citywalls.ru. Date of appeal May 30, 2018.
Links
- Ober, Artemy Lavrentievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Animal sculptor Artemy Ober
- A.N. Benoit. Memories. Chapter 10. The second monkey summer. A. L. Ober
- S. N. Kondakov. Anniversary Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts. 1764-1914 . - St. Petersburg: Partnership R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1915. - T. 2 (Biographical part). - S. 265. - 459 p.