BRONNIKOV Fyodor

September 17, 1827 (Shadrinsk Perm Province) - September 1, 1902 (Rome)

Painter, graphic artist

born in the family iconographer A. Bronnikov. Original art education was under the leadership of his father. In 1843 arrived in St. Petersburg. In 1845 he joined the IAH, was engaged in the class of historical painting in Markov. In 1851 he was awarded the small and large silver medal for a portrait from life, and now "The Return of Ulysses to his house. In 1852 was awarded a small gold medal for the program "Sermon of John the Baptist, in 1853 - a large gold medal for the painting" Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow". Released from the Academy with the rank of class artist and the right of a pensioner's travel abroad.

parallel with studies at the Academy from 1843 attended the workshop EE Bernardskogo, where mastering the technique woodcuts. In 1846, together with AA, Agim created illustrations for the poem by Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls ».

in 1854 as a pensioner IAH went to Italy, on the way visited Germany and France. After the pensioner's life in 1861 remained in Rome, but periodically visited Russia. In 1863, for sending to St. Petersburg and presented at academic painting exhibition "Horace reads his satire in society Patron", bypassing the rank of the academician, became a professor of historical painting. In 1870, for the painting "The poor family, drives to the apartment" was awarded a gold medal M.-L.-E. Vigee-Lebrun "for expression. Participated in international art exhibitions in London (1872), Philadelphia (1876), the World Exhibitions in Vienna (1873), where the painting "Hymn to the Pythagoreans the rising sun" was awarded the Medal of the Arts ", Paris (1878), Chicago (1893) . Since 1874 (until 1902) has exhibited work in exhibitions TPHV (member of the Association since 1876), as well as the Moscow Society of Art Lovers.

He has also worked in the field of monumental painting, participated in the painting of the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris, the Russian embassy church in Copenhagen, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

all his works, is in Rome, and bequeathed to his native city Shadrinsk, where, after the October Revolution of 1917 was opened Bronnikovskaya Art Gallery (now Shadrinsk museum).

Bronnikov - one of the greatest masters of academic art in the second half of the XIX century. His musical legacy is quite diverse, the artist worked as a portraitist, genre painter, a landscape, however, best known for his paintings on the themes brought to the ancient and medieval history, solved in the spirit of "salon" art of the time, belonging to the so-called style "neogrek. In these canvases the world of antiquity comes in the form multifigure spectacular, bloody drama and chamber music in the spirit of idyllic scenes. They are characterized by an idealization of images, decorative flowers, built on a combination of gentle warm muted tones, the thoroughness of performance parts and special "smooth" manner of writing in which the brush work is almost not noticeable, thanks to what effect is illusory image. This art is not put great psychological and dramatic problems, the historical theme was served quickly and unobtrusively. Bronnikov paintings are imbued with ecstasy Italian nature, ancient culture, they often respond to purely pictorial or composite tasks.

Bronnikova works are in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, the Scientific Research Museum of Russia Academy of Arts.