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Mikhail Vrubel
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. A prolific and innovative master in various media such as painting, drawing, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art, Vrubel is generally characterized as one of the most important artists in Russian symbolist tradition and a pioneering figure of Modernist art.
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culture · Russian artist (1856–1910) · painter · sculptor · graphic artist · visual artist · theatre designer · ceramicist · also Mikhail Vrubel, Mihail Vrubel, Michel Wrubel, Mihajl Aleksandrovič Vrubel, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel'
Born 5 March 1856 · Died 1 April 1910 · Q215100
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The public initiated establishment of the new tombstone on the Vrubel's grave, but local authorities refused the installation
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1913· 1 entry
At the age of 45, right after the concert where she participated
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1910· 1 entry
Died 1910-04-01.
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1905· 3 entries
Was awarded the title Academician of painting "for fame in the artistic field"
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Was awarded the title of Academician of Painting for his "fame in the artistic field" – just when Vrubel almost finished his career as an artist
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The Vrubel's painting "The Pearl Shell" was put on display
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1904· 1 entry
Following the advice of Serbsky, Vrubel was put in the sanitary clinic of Fedor Usoltsev in Petrovsky park
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1902· 2 entries
Unsuccessful exposition of "The Demon Downcast" in Moscow (the painter hoped that the painting would be bought for the Tretyakov Gallery) coincided with a suicide of Alexander Rizzoni following incorrect criticism in the
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Organized the exhibition of 36 works, including all three of his "Demons"
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1901· 1 entry
Nadezhda gave birth to a son named Savva
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1898· 3 entries
When Nadezhda was invited to the Moscow private opera
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Vrubel painted ‘the Knight’ or ‘the Bogatyr’
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During the summer stay in Ukraine, Vrubel experienced several symptoms of his future disease
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1896· 2 entries
Academician Albert Nikolayevitch Benois reported to the Academy of Arts that the work that was being carried out in the art pavilion is incompatible with its thematic goals
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Dedicated to the Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna
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1895· 1 entry
Vrubel attempted to gain authority among Russian art circles
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1894· 1 entry
Vrubel plunged into severe depression, and Mamontov sent him to Italy to look after his son Sergei, a retired hussar officer who was supposed to undergo treatment in Europe (he suffered from hereditary kidney disease and
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1892· 1 entry
“I have not heard from many people so much fair but benevolent criticism”
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1890· 2 entries
In the letter to his sister, Vrubel mentioned:
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With The Demon Seated, followed by Vrubel's 1896 marriage to the opera singer Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel, his longtime sitter, and ended in 1902 with The Demon Downcast and the subsequent hospitalization of the artist
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1889· 1 entry
Mikhail Vrubel had to urgently travel to Kazan where his father was seriously ill; later he recovered, but due to illness, still had to resign and then settle down in Kiev
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1886· 1 entry
Vrobel went to Kiev to celebrate the new year using the money that his father sent him for a trip home (at that time the family resided in Kharkov)
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1885· 1 entry
Vrubel spent May and part of June in Kiev
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1884· 1 entry
Was a student at the Kiev Art School appointed to pick Mikhail up in the station, later recalled:
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1883· 2 entries
His painting "Betrothal of Mary and Joseph" received the silver medal from the Academy
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(when they renewed mutual correspondence that was broken off for six years):
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1876· 1 entry
Vrubel had to repeat the second year due to poor grades and a desire to strengthen his knowledge on the subjects
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1875· 1 entry
Even travelled to Europe with one of his pupils; together, they visited France, Switzerland and Germany
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1870· 1 entry
After living three years in Saint Petersburg, the Vrubel family moved to Odessa where Alexander was appointed as a judge in the garrison court
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1869· 1 entry
(reproduced from the photograph), and the portrait of Anna hanging in the father's office
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1867· 1 entry
The family moved to Saratov where podpolkovnik Vrubel took command of the provincial garrison
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1863· 1 entry
Alexander Vrubel got married for the second time to Elizaveta Vessel from Saint Petersburg, who dedicated herself to her husband's children (her own child was born only in 1867)
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1859· 1 entry
Was appointed to serve in Astrakhan where he had relatives able to help him with children, but already in 1861 the family had to relocate to Kharkov
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1856· 1 entry
Born 1856-03-05.
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1855· 1 entry
Their first child Anna Aleksandrovna (1855–1928) was born
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