Johann Gottlieb Wenig, commonly russified as Bogdan Bogdanovich Wenig (Russian: Богдан Богданович Вениг; 30 July 1837 – 13 May 1872[1]) was a Baltic German painter of historical and religious scenes.
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.[2] 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.[3]
He was especially noted for his draftsmanship; receiving three small silver medals (1854, 1856, 1857), two large silver medals (1856, 1857), a small gold medal (1859) and, finally, a large gold medal for his sketch depicting the Kiss of Judas (1862).[3]
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 until 1871, he was a member of the Artel of Artists, led by Ivan Kramskoi.[4]
He graduated from the 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.[5] During his last years, he worked as a portrait painter. The cause of his early death was apparently not recorded.
^Valentin Skurlov, "Фаберже и Эстония" (Fabergé and Estonia), In : Aрхив Валентина Скурлова, 2009
^ abS. N. Kondakov, List of Russian artists for the jubilee reference book of the Imperial Academy of Arts, СПб, 1914 (Online)
^O. L. Leykind and D. R. Severyukhin, "Артель художников", In: Encyclopedia of Saint Petersburg (Online)
^Y. V. Alekseyev-Alyurvi, Painting technology in the dome of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow ()
Further readingedit
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.
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. ISBN978-5-905273-44-5.
External linksedit
Brief biography @ Yavarda
Brief biography @ ArtInvestment.ru
April 10, 2024
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