Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (

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: Ви́ктор Алекса́ндрович Га́ртман; 5 May 1834,

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– 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near

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) was a Russian

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and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by

Savva Mamontov Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (russian: Са́вва Ива́нович Ма́монтов, ; 3 October 1841 (15 October N.S.), Yalutorovsk – 6 April 1918, Moscow) was a Russian industrialist, merchant, entrepreneur and patron of the arts. Bus ...

, and the

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Life

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

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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. Since

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had introduced him to the circle of

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in 1870, he had been a close friend of the composer

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. Following Hartmann's early death from an

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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 ''

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''. Most of the works shown at the 1874 exhibition are now lost.

Gallery

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printshop, Leontyevsky Lane, Moscow

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Reproductions of Viktor Hartmann's pictures
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Life

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