Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov Biography

Vishnyakov Ivan Yakovlevich Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov-the famous Russian portraitist artist, monumentalist, decorator, one of the representatives of a secular portrait in the Rococo style, the head of the picturesque office of the office from numerous works of the master, who, since the age of fifteen, until his death did not know the day of rest, have been preserved only about ten portraits.

The creative fate of this talented painter born in the city of Georgian, and after studying, in the city, under the leadership of the showing team of Andrei Matveev, Ivan was formed as an artist-monumentist, closely collaborating with architects, carriages and sculptors-all those craftsmen who created the decorative style of that period, based on the synthesis of Russian Baroque and Rococo.

But even at the end of x RR. Although Ivan did perfectly with his work on his own, whether he made copies or “wrote the persons of his imperial Majesty Peter I” and other portraits himself, performed a lot of decorative and restoration work, before G. this year, after the death of A. Matveev, Vishnyakov became a master and accepted the leadership of the picturesque team.

His further advance was quite significant. He received one after another the title of ensign G. One can only be surprised at the amount of work that fell on the shoulders of Ivan Yakovlevich. High professional skill provided him with an even greater load, and the picturesque “service” was more like a military: they ordered, which means that it was urgent to do it yourself or provide performers.

It seems that it was possible to drown in a heap of the highest decrees, accounts and reports.

But Vishnyakov not only managed all the picturesque work in St. Petersburg, Moscow and in the country's suburban residences, he participated directly in them. The artist worked in close contact with the architects V. Rastrelli, M. Zemtsov and the decorator of J. Valeriani, participated in endless perestroika, in restoration and new construction of the winter, summer and anchik palaces, triumphal gates in Moscow, Peter and Paul Cathedral, Opera and Tsarskoye Selo palaces.

Painting of palace interiors, the creation of images for the Trinity Cathedral and the Church of Simeon and Anna, the personal orders of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna ... All this is interspersed with Vishnyakov with the need to wash and clean the old canvases, together with the sprouts of the "border" of the ceiling and chandeliers, build the scenery, rearrange the canvases and simultaneously act as an expert and consultant according to the consultant Numerous picturesque works, monitor the purity of iconography of the reigning persons so that their faces are not distorted.

During his gift, Ivan Yakovlevich spent his creative forces to a lot of secondary works. But there was even a greater family: the elderly mother Akulina Anufrievna, three sons from her first marriage, the second wife of Marya Fedorovna, who gave birth to three sons and a daughter. Looked by the affairs, he managed to take care of their fate and education, especially the gifted senior Ivan: he was busy about his "picturesque apprenticeship in the office from buildings and teaching the Italian language in the hope of foreign pensioners." A trip to Italy was not allowed, but Ivan and his younger brother Alexander became good painters.

Over a quarter of a century, conducted at the head of the picturesque office of the office from buildings, the artist created a whole school, which can rightly be called “the school of the I. Learning System, developed by A. Matveev and improved by Ivan Yakovlevich, formed the basis of the principles of teaching at the Academy of Arts. The painters G. Molchanov, I. Belsky, A.

Anthropov, the icon painter M. Kolokolnikov and dozens of less famous artists were students of this wonderful teacher and caring mentor.