Biography of Victor Gartman

Tweet - architect; genus. The son of the headquarters at the Kalinka hospital, a three-year-old boy, he was left without a father, and a year later his mother died; Fortunately, his mother L. Hemilian, the wife of the architect, former his beloved chamber-frau chamber under Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, took him to educate him. Thanks to this, it was possible to place the boy in the mountain corps, where he had no right to enter, since exclusively children of people who served in the mountain department were accepted there.

He entered there in the city of artistic abilities noticed in him prompted the aunt to give him now to the Academy of Arts, where he had been drawn for a long time. Here, the classes of G. for some time he hesitated in choosing a specialty, between genre painting and architecture, but stopped at the last. In the city and then he was already distinguished as a wonderful draftsman and watercolist.

Since shortly before it was started to leave for some time graduating from architects in Russia "for practical classes with famous architects", then G. Gemilian, who was not an outstanding architect, but a good practice, and in this regard, who brought him a lot of benefits. During this time, G. to work with his own hands was generally his mannera and subsequently. For example, when the printing house of A.

Mamontov was built in Moscow, which will be discussed next, he, as M. Mamontov gave me, did not even compose preliminary projects of all the characteristic jewelry of the building, and, climbing into the forests, laid them with his own hands. In addition to the work mentioned, during the same time he painted a lot on a tree of vignettes and illustrations for the publications of Gaenfelden.

Finally, in January, all the time of the trip, he studied not only the artistic side of architectural monuments, but also the technical part; And he made his entire trip the same as his comrades are pensioners, but as the already established foreign architects do this: he sketched all his attention to himself, not excluding genre scenes; Nevertheless, that the photo could convey, photographed a small device that always existed with him.

He also did and deciding, on the model of other pensioners, to fulfill the restoration of the Roman amphitheater near the Periga. The result of all this turned out to be a huge number of talented drawings and photographic pictures brought by him to Russia, but did not submit carefully finished drawings and drawings required by the Academy. Soon, upon returning to St. Petersburg, Perestroika, on this occasion, the Salt town gave the opportunity for G.

for these works by the Academy elevated him in the city of the same time, his project of the city gate for Kyiv dates back to the event of the event of April 4, for the Polytechnic Exhibition in Moscow, he moved to Moscow, where he conducted the rest of his activities. Here he compiled a project of a wooden folk theater, built on Lubyanskaya Square, unfortunately, with great retreats from the original project, compiled the projects of buildings of the Zoological Garden and the museum and several private houses and cottages and built the typography of A.

Mamontov and the country house for him, in the village of Kireev, where he died. For the theater on Lubyanskaya Square, along with some other works, he received at the Vienna World Exhibition of G. The rare architect was so unlucky in the construction business, like G. of all the works listed at present, there is only a printing house of Mamontov at present, but have there any other small buildings - the rest were either not at all performed or were only temporary, as exhibitions, and at the end of them were destroyed.

So you can get acquainted with his talent only according to publications, mainly by the "motives of Russian architecture" by the Rhinebot. In the history of Russian architecture, the collection of materials for the history of imp. Academy of Arts, vol. III, St. Petersburg. Academy of Arts since November 4, II, St. Petersburg. II, first, the pupil of the Page Cadet Corps, in the city after studying in St.

Petersburg. Hemilina, G., upon returning from traveling in the year, was invited to participate in the works of the All -Russian Manufactory Exhibition of G. These drawings, showing inexhaustible fantasy, subtle taste, amazing originality and generally the talent of the G. after that, he was engaged in some architectural projects of the gate, expected to build in Kyiv in memory of the event on April 4, except for other works, G.

This artist compiled in general in this respect, despite the short duration of his life and activity, has left his memory in the history of Russian art as one of the most gifted revives of the Russian national style. More detailed biographical information about him can be found in the appendix to the report of the Imperial Academy of Arts for - GG.