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Oil paintings by Siemiradzki, Henryk Hector |
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Henryk Hector Siemiradzki
(1843-1902)
Henryk Hector Siemiradzki was born in October 24, 1843 into the family of Hippolit Siemiradzki, a Polish military officer in the service of the Russian Tzar. His childhood and youth were spent in Kharkov, then part of the Russian Empire, now the territory of Ukraine. Henryk received his first art lessons from the Ukrainian painter Dmitry Besperchy, a pupil of Karl Brulloff. Later Siemiradzki called him his only teacher. In 1860, under pressure from his family, he entered the Kharkov University. After graduating with a BA in science, he immediately left for St. Petersburg, where he got permission to visit lectures in the Academy of Arts; the Academy at that point did not accept students older than twenty. Very soon, however, the professors paid attention to the talented young man and he was admitted as a student, despite the age limits. During his very first year in the Academy, Siemiradzki received 2 silver medals, and later received awards every year (in all he got 6 silver and 3 gold medals). He impressed his classmates with his knowledge of science and ancient history. His teachers remarked that he was an excellent colorist and draftsman. In 1870, Siemiradzki got a Major Gold medal for his work Alexander the Great¡¯s Trust in the Doctor Hippolitus and a pension to study abroad for 6 years.
First Siemiradzki went to Munich, at that time the second, after Paris, artistic center of Europe. He was confident enough to work independently, however he visited the studios of other masters, and especially often that of Carl Piloti, the famous historical painter. In Munich, Siemiradzki painted his first big work Roman Orgy in the Time of the Caesars (1872). The picture was bought by the St. Petersburg Academy, and the money helped the artist move to Italy. In Rome, where everything lives and breathes with art, he remained for the rest of his life, visiting Russia only from time to time.
The second big work by the painter Christ and Sinner. The First Meeting of Christ and Mary Magdalene. (1872), commissioned by the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, the president of the Academy, brought Siemiradzki success and European fame. This painting presents the main peculiarities of his art: the effective composition in which the landscape plays the greatest role, helping unite the figures of people. In another painting Christ in the House of Martha and Mary. (1886) the landscape is of major importance, and his best biblical painting Christ and the Samaritan Woman. (1890) is practically a beautiful sunlit landscape, the figures of Christ and Samaritan playing an auxiliary role.
In 1876, Siemiradzki painted the big (3.85 x 7.04 m) painting Leading Light of Christianity. Nero¡¯s Torches., a subject from Suetonius¡¯ The Twelve Caesars. In the picture.... |
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