Mikhail Erassi
Mikhail Erassi | |
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| Михаил Спиридонович Эрасси | |
| Born | December 2, 1823 |
| Died | January 10, 1899 |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1852) |
| Known for | landscape painting |
| Style | Academism |
| Elected | Member Academy of Arts (1857) Professor by rank (1862) |
Mikhail Spiridonovich Erassi[a] (2 December [O.S. 20 November] 1823 — 10 January 1899 [O.S. 29 December 1898]) was a Russian painter of Greek descent, commonly known for his landscapes, typical of the Academic style. A relative of the Romantic painter Alexey Venetsianov, Erassi was among the last students of his painting school before gaining a reputation as follower of the Swiss painter Alexandre Calame.
Biography
[edit]Mikhail Erassi was born in 1828. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Professor Vorobyov. During his studies, he was awarded several prizes.[2]
In 1853, as a pensioner of the Academy of Arts, he was sent abroad for two years, but in 1856 he applied for a postponement of his stay abroad for another two years to continue his studies under the guidance of the famous artist Alexander Calame. For his part, Kalama also asked to leave Erassi to improve his skills.[3]
In 1857 Michail Erassi was elevated to the rank of academician and in 1862 he was elected professor of landscape painting. Erassi was strongly influenced by Kalam and had almost perfectly assimilated the techniques of the latter. His subjects were often Swiss landscapes. Three views sent by him from Switzerland to St.-Petersburg gave him the title of academician and the views of Four Forest Canton, Lake Geneva and Reichenbach Falls made him a professor at the academy.
The Emperor Alexander III Museum (now the State Russian Museum) acquired the following paintings by Erassi: "The shore of Lake Leman near Chambery", "Switzerland", "View near Vyborg, in Finland" and "Winter Landscape".
Mikhail Erassi died in Berlin, aged seventy-five, virtually obscure.[4]
Gallery
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Landscape with a herd
Russian village
Portrait of I. V. Bobylev
View of the lake
Landscape with a mountain river
View of the surroundings of Vyborg
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Notes
[edit]- ↑ Russian: Михаи́л Спиридо́нович Эра́сси. A 1857 letter from Yakov Polonsky to Mariya Khalchinskaya, Frau Stackenschneider, records the surname as Gerassi (Russian: Герасси).[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ Cited in Polonsky, Yakov P. (1954). Eikhenbaum, Boris M. (ed.). Стихотворения (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskiy Pisatel'. p. 27.
- ↑ "Эрасси Михаил Спиридонович — Краткие биографии". biographiya.com. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ↑ "ЭСБЕ/Эрасси, Михаил Спиридонович — Викитека". ru.wikisource.org (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ↑ "Забытый русский пейзажист". Novoye Vremya (in Russian). No. 8228. St. Petersburg: Suvorin Typography. February 4, 1899. p. 7. Retrieved April 19, 2026.
Further reading
[edit]- Venetsianov, Alexey G.; et al. (1980). Kornilova, Anna V. (ed.). Алексей Гаврилович Венецианов. Статьи. Письма. Современники о художнике (in Russian). Leningrad: Iskusstvo. pp. 42, 92, 110, 120, 127, 145, 205, 206, 247, 299, 304, 306, 307, 335. OCLC 7876311.
- Presnova, Natalya G. (October 2007). "'Лучший из учеников Калама'". Антиквариат (in Russian). No. 51. pp. 56–67. ISSN 1683-7665, republished as stand-alone artbook in 2010.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Alekseyeva, Tatyana V. (1982) [1958]. Художники школы Венецианова (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Мoscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 274, 279, 332, 352, 372, 373, 382. OCLC 9379405.
- Milner, John (1993). A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420–1970. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 133. ISBN 1-85149-182-1. OCLC 29787870.
External links
[edit]- Mikhail Erassi at the Russian Academy of Arts' official website (in Russian)
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