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Bogdan Wenig | |
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| Богдан Вениг | |
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| Born | Johann Gottlieb Wenig July 30, 1837 Reval, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire |
| Died | May 13, 1872 (aged 34) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Resting place | Volkovo Cemetery, St. Petersburg |
| Education | Fyodor Bruni |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1864) |
| Known for | painting |
| Style | |
| Spouse |
Katharina Nummelin (m. 1866) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Carl Wenig (elder brother) Peter Carl Fabergé (maternal cousin) |
Johann Gottlieb Wenig,[a][2] russified as Bogdan Bogdanovich Wenig[a] (30 July 1837 – 13 May 1872[3]) was a Baltic German painter in the Academical style, active in Saint Petersburg during Tsar Alexander II's reign. The younger brother to fellow painter Carl Wenig, he was a second-rate master most remembered among the fourteen protestants led by Ivan Kramskoi into leaving the Imperial Academy of Arts and establishing the Artel of Artists in 1863.
Biography
[edit]His father, Gottlieb (1804–1874), was a music teacher and organist at St. Nicholas Church in Reval. His mother Agathe (1808–1895), an amateur artist, was the aunt of Peter Carl Fabergé.[4] In 1848, he and his family moved to Saint Petersburg, where his father had found employment with the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres. In 1851, he joined his brother Carl at the Imperial Academy of Arts, studying historical painting with Fyodor Bruni.[5]
He was especially noted for his draftsmanship;[6] receiving three small silver medals (1854, 1856, 1857), two large silver medals (1856, 1857), and a small gold medal (1859); in addition to these, he was rewarded a prize for his sketch depicting the Kiss of Judas (1862).[5]
In 1863, he was one of the artists involved in the "Revolt of the Fourteen"; refusing to participate in the 100th anniversary competition for a large gold medal. From then, he was a member of the Artel of Artists, led by Ivan Kramskoi.[7]
He formally graduated from the Imperial Academy in 1864 with the title of "Artist 2nd Class". In 1865, together with Kramskoi and Nikolay Koshelev, he worked on painting the main dome at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.[8][9] This work aside, he mostly had his recognition as portrait painter. He died in St. Petersburg, aged thirty-four; he was interred into the Volkovo Cemetery.[10]
Gallery
[edit]![Sophia of Lithuania at Vasily II of Moscow's Wedding, 1861, oil on canvas, 62,5 by 77,5 cm; Museum of the Academy of Arts [ru], St. Petersburg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Bogdan_Wenig_%28%3F%29%2C_Sophia_of_Lithuania_at_Vasily_II_of_Moscow%27s_Wedding%2C_1861%2C_Russian_Academy_of_Arts_Museum_%D0%9D%D0%98%D0%9C_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A5_%D0%9A%D0%9F-11425._%D0%96-3227.jpg/500px-Bogdan_Wenig_%28%3F%29%2C_Sophia_of_Lithuania_at_Vasily_II_of_Moscow%27s_Wedding%2C_1861%2C_Russian_Academy_of_Arts_Museum_%D0%9D%D0%98%D0%9C_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A5_%D0%9A%D0%9F-11425._%D0%96-3227.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Sophia of Lithuania at Vasily II of Moscow's Wedding, 1861, oil on canvas, 62,5 by 77,5 cm; Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg![Johann Reimers [ru], after photograph by Andrey Denyer, 1869, oil on canvas, 73 by 58 cm; Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Bogdan_Wenig%2C_Johann_Reimers%2C_1869%2C_Russian_Academy_of_Arts_Museum_%D0%9D%D0%98%D0%9C_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A5_%D0%9A%D0%9F-632-1._%D0%96-215.jpeg/250px-Bogdan_Wenig%2C_Johann_Reimers%2C_1869%2C_Russian_Academy_of_Arts_Museum_%D0%9D%D0%98%D0%9C_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A5_%D0%9A%D0%9F-632-1._%D0%96-215.jpeg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Johann Reimers, after photograph by Andrey Denyer, 1869, oil on canvas, 73 by 58 cm; Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
![Sophia of Lithuania at Vasily II of Moscow's Wedding, 1861, oil on canvas, 62,5 by 77,5 cm; Museum of the Academy of Arts [ru], St. Petersburg](/everything/wiki/File:Bogdan_Wenig_(%3F),_Sophia_of_Lithuania_at_Vasily_II_of_Moscow's_Wedding,_1861,_Russian_Academy_of_Arts_Museum_%D0%9D%D0%98%D0%9C_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A5_%D0%9A%D0%9F-11425._%D0%96-3227.jpg)
![Johann Reimers [ru], after photograph by Andrey Denyer, 1869, oil on canvas, 73 by 58 cm; Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg](/everything/wiki/File:Bogdan_Wenig,_Johann_Reimers,_1869,_Russian_Academy_of_Arts_Museum_%D0%9D%D0%98%D0%9C_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%A5_%D0%9A%D0%9F-632-1._%D0%96-215.jpeg)
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Catalogued in Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, ed. (2021). Рисунок XIX века. К. Государственная Третьяковская галерея. Каталог собрания. Рисунок XVIII–XX веков (in Russian). Vol. 2, pt. 4. Moscow: Tretyakov Gallery. p. 219, cat. no. 629; ill. p. 220. ISBN 978-5-89580-342-4. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg holds a lesser, certainly preparatory drawing signed and dated April 1861, catalogued in Goldstein 1965, p. 375.
- ↑ EAD, cited in Popova-Yatskevich 2015, p. 360 n. 2, records him as Johann Gottlieb Fried[rich] Wenig. Neumann 1908, p. 168, uses the name Johann Gottfried Wenig, and so do Vollmer 1942, p. 376 and Gudymenko 2022, p. 477.
- ↑ The dates are given as recorded in EAD; Popova-Yatskevich 2015, p. 360 n. 2.
- ↑ Valentin Skurlov, "Фаберже и Эстония" (Fabergé and Estonia), In : Aрхив Валентина Скурлова, 2009
- 1 2 Kondakov, Sergei N. [in Russian] (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764–1914 (in Russian). Vol. 2. Saint Petersburg: Golike and Vilborg. p. 35. OCLC 707072219.
- ↑ Repin, Ilya Ye. (1944). Chukovsky, Korney I. (ed.). Далекое близкое (in Russian). Moscow, Leningrad: Iskusstvo. p. 97; see the editorial note at p. 465.
- ↑ O. L. Leykind and D. R. Severyukhin, "Артель художников", In: Encyclopedia of Saint Petersburg (Online)
- ↑ Kramskoi 1966, pp. 344–345.
- ↑ Y. V. Alekseyev-Alyurvi, Painting technology in the dome of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow (Online)
- ↑ Böhm, Benedikt (2003). Wolkowo lutherischer Friedhof in Sankt Petersburg (in German). Vol. 2. St. Petersburg: Blitz. p. 370, cited in Popova-Yatskevich 2015, p. 360 n. 2.
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Further reading
[edit]- Contemporary sources
- Kramskoi, Ivan N.; et al. (1888). Suvorin, Aleksey S. and Stasov, Vladimir V. (eds.). Иван Николаевич Крамской. Его жизнь, переписка и художественно-критические статьи, 1837–1887 (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Suvorin Typography. pp. 39, 56, 725. OCLC 568434544.
- Kramskoi, Ivan N. (1965). Goldstein, Sofya N. [in Russian] (ed.). Крамской: Письма. Статьи (in Russian). Vol. 1. Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 17, 22, 23, 26, 28, 30–36, 46, 47, 51, 53, 58, 60, 63–65, 67, 481, 482, 486–489, 491, 492, 494, 496. OCLC 178907413.
- Kramskoi, Ivan N. (1966). Goldstein, Sofya N. (ed.). Крамской: Письма. Статьи (in Russian). Vol. 2. Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 344, 345, 477, 479. OCLC 178907474.
- Petrov, Pyotr N. (1866). Сборник материалов для истории Императорской Санкт-Петербургской академии художеств за сто лет ее существования (in Russian). Vol. 3. Saint Petersburg: Gogenfelden and Co. pp. 222, 271, 278, 322, 324, 334, 335, 356, 365, 367, 387, 410, 416, 429, 434, 435. OCLC 676719786.
- Scholarly notes
- Barsheva, Irina N.; Sazonova, Kira K. (1962). "Богдан Богданович Вениг". In Leonov, Alexei I. (ed.). Русское искусство. Очерки о жизни и творчестве художников. Вторая половина XIX века (in Russian). Vol. 1. Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 149–154. OCLC 71538004.
- Bogdan, Veronika-Irina T. [in Russian]; et al. (2003). Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow; et al. (eds.). Немцы и Академия художеств (exhibition catalog) (in Russian). Moscow: Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. pp. 35–37, 76–77; cat. nos. 40–41, 166–169. OCLC 886361785.
- Bogdan, Veronika-Irina T. (2007). Исторический класс Академии художеств второй половины XIX века (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: NP-Print. pp. 31, 35, 40, 76, 102, 237, 294, 308, 322–323. ISBN 978-5-901751-75-6. OCLC 300033545.
- Goldstein, Sofya N. (1965). Иван Николаевич Крамской (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 34, 35, 41, 47, 52, 54, 58, 375. OCLC 7262671.
- Neumann, Wilhelm (1902). Baltische Maler und Bildhauer des XIX. Jahrhunderts (in German). Riga: A. Grosset. p. 111. OCLC 25471919. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021.
- Popova-Yatskevich, Yelena G. (2015). "Российские Вениги". In Sakharov, Igor V. (ed.). Выходцы из Германии и их российские потомки [Einwanderer aus Deutschland und ihre Nachkommen in Russland] (conference papers) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Presidential Library. pp. 351–366. ISBN 978-5-905273-44-5.
- Punina, Irina N. (1966). Петербургская артель художников (in Russian). Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR. pp. 9, 21, 31, 76. OCLC 8966449.
- Vereshchagina, Alla G. [in Russian] (1990). Историческая картина в русском искусстве: Шестидесятые годы XIX века (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 92, 95, 140, 221. ISBN 5-210-00311-6. OCLC 25456986.
- Reference books
- Bulgakov, Fyodor I. [in Russian] (1889). "Вениг, Богдан Богданович". Наши художники (in Russian). Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Suvorin Typography. p. 77. OCLC 38661216.
- Gudymenko, Yuri Y. (2022). "Wenig". In Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte & Tegethoff, Wolf (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 115. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 477–479. ISBN 978-3-11-055066-5. OCLC 1286914467.
- Neumann, Wilhelm (1908). Lexikon baltischer Künstler (in German). Riga: Jonck & Poliewsky. p. 168. OCLC 23573969.
- Vollmer, Hans, ed. (1942). "Wenig (Венигъ)". Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 35. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. p. 376. OCLC 310032554.
- Voltsenburg, Oskar E. [in Russian]; et al., eds. (1972). "Вениг, Богдан Богданович". Художники народов СССР (in Russian). Vol. 2. Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 230–231.
External links
[edit]- "Wenig, Johann Gottlieb (fried) / Bogdan Bogdanovič". Erik-Amburger-Datenbank (in German). Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS). Retrieved 2024-04-09.
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