Fedor Andreevich Klages (1812-1890) - artist, academician and professor of perspective painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts , curator of the Museum of the Academy of Arts.
| Fedor Andreevich Klages | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | January 22, 1814 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | 1890 |
| A place of death | St. Petersburg |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Study | |
| Ranks | Academician of IAH (1861) [1] free community IAH (1866) [1] professor of IAH (1883) [1] |
Biography
He received his primary education at the English hostel Bitton, then studied at the Evangelical German School at St. Catherine's Church, where he showed great success in drawing. While still at the school, he began to attend the drawing classes of the Imperial Academy of Arts as a freelance student. He entered the students of the professor of architecture A.P. Bryullov (1830). [2] Received a small silver medal (1834), a large silver (1836), a small gold (1839) for the program "Project of a theater school . " [one]
During the construction of the Mikhailovsky Palace , Pulkovo Observatory , renovation of the Winter Palace , the palace of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and her suburban palace, as well as at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Klages served as an assistant architect. Successfully working in watercolor and thoroughly knowing the perspective, all this time he was fulfilling orders of promising types of halls and rooms of Moscow palaces for persons of the imperial family. [2] Received from the Academy of Fine Arts the title of free artist (1835) [1] . Until 1841 he was a teacher of drawing topographers at the General Staff . He taught architecture, perspective and watercolor at the Moscow School of Architecture (1846-1851). [2]
In 1851 he went abroad, where he stayed for ten years, of which he spent 14 months on Mount Athos , executing architectural drawings of plans for monasteries, churches, facades, sections and various architectural decorations. These works were transferred to the library of the Academy of Arts. Then Klages completely abandoned architecture and devoted himself to landscape and watercolor painting. Upon returning from abroad (1861), he received the title of academician and, after serving at the Moscow School of Architecture for three years, he joined the Academy of Arts as an assistant curator of the museum, and then as a librarian and teacher of perspective and descriptive geometry. He received the title of Honorary Free Community (1866). He was elevated to the title of professor of the Academy of Arts (1883) for the painting "The Internal View of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow . " September 24, 1889 commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the artistic activity of Klages since the time he received the small gold medal. [2]
In 1892 he retired [3] .
Notes
- β 1 2 3 4 5 List of Russian artists for the anniversary directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts, 1915 , p. 340.
- β 1 2 3 4 Our artists, 1889 , p. 181.
- β VT-ESBE, Klages, Fedor Andreevich .
Literature
- Klages, Fedor Andreevich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- 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. 340 .-- 459 p.
- F.I. Bulgakov. Our artists (painters, sculptors, mosaicists, engravers and medalists) at academic exhibitions of the last 25 years. Biographies, portraits of artists and pictures from their works. - SPb. : Printing house of A. S. Suvorin, 1889. - T. 1. - P. 181. - 234 p.