Viktor Hartmann

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Viktor Hartmann
Виктор Александрович Гартман
Died	July 23, 1873(1873-07-23) (aged 39) Moscow Governorate
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1870)
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts (1861)
Known for	Architecture, Painting
Awards

Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (Russian: Ви́ктор Алекса́ндрович Га́ртман; 5 May 1834, Saint Petersburg – 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow) was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamontov, and the Russian Revival.

Victor-Edouard Hartmann was born in Saint Petersburg into a family of German ancestry. He was orphaned at a young age and grew up in the house of his mother's sister, L. Hemilian, and her husband Alexandre Hemilian, who was a well-known architect. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg and at first started working by illustrating books.

He also worked as an architect and sketched, among other things, the monument to the thousandth anniversary of Russia in Novgorod, which was inaugurated in 1862. He made most of his water colors and pencil drawings on journeys abroad in the years 1864 to 1868. Together with Ivan Ropet, Hartmann was one of the first artists to include traditional Russian motifs in his work.

In 1869 Hartmann entered a competition with his design for the Bogatyr Gate (The Great Gate of Kiev)^[1][2] as a commemoration of a failed assassination attempt of the tsar of Russia, Alexander II.^[3]

Since Vladimir Stasov had introduced him to the circle of Mily Balakirev in 1870, he had been a close friend of the composer Modest Mussorgsky. Following Hartmann's early death from an aneurysm at the age of only 39, an exhibition of over 400 of his paintings was displayed in the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, in February and March 1874. This inspired Mussorgsky to compose his suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Most of the works shown at the 1874 exhibition are now lost.^[4]

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  Design for the Naval department of Russia's pavilion at the Vienna World Fair of 1873
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  Sketch for the ballet Trilby
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  The Rich Jew
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  The Poor Jew
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  The Paris Catacombs
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  Plan for a City Gate in Kiev
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  Extant Savva Mamontov printshop, Leontyevsky Lane, Moscow

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• List of Russian artists

• Eagen, Tim Images for Pictures at an Exhibition Reproductions and descriptions of Viktor Hartmann's pictures at stmoroky.com. January 2000; updated January 14, 2020
• (in Japanese) More reproductions of Viktor Hartmann's pictures