Alexander Vasilievich Loganovsky (Russian: Александр Васильевич Логановский; 11 March 1810, Moscow - 18 November 1855, Moscow) was a Russian sculptor and academician; known primarily for his bas-reliefs. His birth year is sometimes given as 1812.
Biography
In 1821, he began his studies at the Imperial Academy of Arts. During his time there, he was awarded several medals, including a large silver medal for his depiction of Jupiter and Mercury visiting Philemon and Baucis (1831), and a small gold medal for a bas-relief of Hector reproaching Paris (1832). The following year, He received a large gold medal for his statue of a young man playing svaika. This was created in conjunction with Nikolai Pimenov, who produced a statue of a young man playing babka. Both were praised by Alexander Pushkin in a short poem, and are now on display at Alexander Palace.
Following his graduation, he received a stipend to study in Rome. While there, he created a marble figure of Abaddon and a group depicting young people from Kiev in gypsum, for which he was awarded the title of "Academician". Upon returning, he created two bas-reliefs for Saint Isaac's Cathedral: an "Annunciation to the Shepherds" and a "Massacre of the Innocents".
Since 1839, together with Peter Clodt, Nikolai Ramazanov, and others, he had been involved in a project to create colossal relief images and figures of saints and angels for the outer walls of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour; a project which took almost forty years to complete. In 1854, partly in honor of his work there, he was named a Professor at the Academy. He died the following year.
(Cathedral of Christ the Saviour)
References
- Appears as partially reproduced in Chereysky, Lazar A. (1981). Современники Пушкина (in Russian). Leningrad: Detskaya Literatura. p. 236. OCLC 21753800.
For further consideration, see Markina, Lyudmila A. (2002). Живописец Фёдор Моллер (in Russian). Moscow: Pamyatniki istoricheskoy mysli. pp. 52, 210, 229; cat. no. 131. ISBN 5-88451-118-3. OCLC 51755818. - S. N. Kondakov, Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914, Golike and Vilborg, 1915
Further reading
- Doronina, Lyudmila N. (2008). Мастера русской скульптуры XVIII–XX веков. Скульптура XVIII–XIX веков (in Russian). Moscow: Belyi Gorod. pp. 256–261. ISBN 978-5-7793-1404-6. OCLC 259743748.
- Ramazanov, Nikolai A. (2014). Belyaev, Nikolai S. (ed.). Материалы для истории художеств в России (PDF) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. pp. 243–246. ISBN 978-5-336-00162-4. OCLC 952577337.
- Shmidt, Igor M. (1989). Русская скульптура второй половины XIX — начала XX века. Из истории мирового искусства (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 12–15, 23, 28, 58, 132, 133, 277, 290; ill. 91. ISBN 5-210-00480-5. OCLC 21526114.
- Wrangel, Nikolai N. (1913). Grabar, Igor E. (ed.). История скульптуры. История русского искусства (in Russian). Vol. 5. Moscow: Joseph Knebel. pp. 320–322. OCLC 995561716.
External links
- Alexander Loganovsky at the Russian Academy of Arts' official website (in Russian)
- "Alexander Loganovsky: Life is Like a Meteorite" @ Московская правда
- Biography @ Санкт-Петербург и пригороды
- Biography @ Всё о цвете (It's All About Color)
- Biography @ the Православная Энциклопедия
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