Vasily Demut-Malinovsky
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Vasily Demut-Malinovsky | |
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Василий Иванович Демут-Малиновский | |
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| Born | March 2, 1778 |
| Died | July 16, 1846 (aged 68) |
| Education | Member Academy of Arts (1807)[1] |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1800)[1] |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Awards |  [1] [1] |
Vasily Ivanovich Demuth-Malinovsky (1779 – July 16, 1846) was a Russian sculptor whose works represent the quintessence of the Empire style.
Biography[]
He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts at the age of six and studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky for fifteen years. Upon the death of his teacher, he won a competition to design his tomb and departed for Rome to study with Canova. Success came to him with two colossal statues for the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg.[1]
In the aftermath of the Russian victory over Napoleon, Demuth-Malinovsky executed a number of patriotic pieces, including a tomb and a large statue of Barclay de Tolly in Estonia. Later Alexander I assigned to him the task of preparing bas-reliefs symbolizing the Neva and the Volga for the Alexander Column on Palace Square.
Demuth-Malinovsky also designed statuary and decorations for other St Petersburg churches, palaces, and public monuments, especially those designed by Carlo Rossi: the General Staff Building, the Bourse, the Admiralty, the Mining Institute, the Egyptian Gate, the Narva Gate, and the Mikhailovsky Palace.
Works[]
Sculptural composition on the arch of the General Staff Building
Abduction of Proserpine
Russian Scaevola
Monument to Barclay de Tolly (Tartu)
Bust of Mikhail Muravyov
Bust of Alexander Suvorov
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts 1915, p. 251.
Bibliography[]
- С. Н. Кондаков (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914 (in Russian). 2. p. 251.
External links[]
Media related to Vasily Demut-Malinovsky at Wikimedia Commons
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- Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
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- Neoclassical sculptors
- 19th-century Russian sculptors
- 19th-century male artists
- 18th-century Russian sculptors
- Russian male sculptors
- 1779 births
- 1846 deaths
- Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery