Until 17 September at the Museum-заповеднике opened the exhibition "the Brothers Groote: a portraitist and tiropites. German artists at the Russian court"

the Museum-заповедник "Tsaritsyno"
house of Bread
Until 17 September 2017

Georg Christoph ", Hofmaler" Groot (1716-1749) became famous for his small "portraits-картинами" in Rococo style. Groote-старшему liked to please Elizabeth — with pleasure he was captured on the canvas of court life during her reign. Groot wrote as portraits, and portraits that are not intended for the General public, and the Empress was depicted in the most unexpected image, and the brave leader of the life-кампании on a horse, and a mysterious lady at the ball, and eternally young Nude goddess Flora. Groot-старший came to Russia first. Almost immediately was adopted at the court, lots of doodling, and when he finds out that Elizabeth is planning to organize in Tsarskoye Selo pavilion, where hung only paintings of animals, recommends to invite his younger brother.

Johann Friedrich "Ivan" Groot (1717-1800) was the first officially recognized Russian animalist (or "zveroboem") and the head of the class "animals and birds" Imperial Academy of arts (to write animals and birds in the Academy did not specifically taught). Groot has created a very realistic and at the same time illusory paintings, passing in the finest detail the habits of domestic and wild animals. It is known that each picture Groot worked for a long time, watching the animals in nature and sketching out their from life in the Studio (for which he provided caught hunting birds and animals). Every new creation Groote-зверописца served as a pretext for a visit to his Studio a large number of high-society guests.

for a Long time the names of the brothers Groot was forgotten — of their paintings were exhibited among others, about the artists frustratingly little written and spoken. The exhibition in the Museum "Tsaritsyno" was first collectedthe most complete artistic heritage Groothof — about 60 paintings from the Tretyakov gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, Tsarskoe Selo, Peterhof, Gatchina, as well as Nizhny Novgorod museums and private collections.

Source: tsaritsyno-museum.ru