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Russian painter (1888–1956)

Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz
Born (1888-07-23)23 July 1888Marienburg, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 27 December 1956(1956-12-27) (aged 68)Leningrad, Soviet Union
Education Imperial Academy of Arts
Known for Painting, Drawing, Art teaching
Movement Realism

Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz (Russian: Рудо́льф Рудо́льфович Фре́нц; 23 July 1888 – 27 December 1956) was a Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and one of the founders of the Leningrad school of painting,[1] most famous for his battle and monumental painting.

Frentz was born on 23 July 1888 in Marienburg, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, in the Saint Petersburg Governorate of the Russian Empire.

Horsewoman. 1925

Initially he learned from his father Rudolf Ferdinandovich Frentz (1831–1918), Academic of painting (1912), well-known Russian master of animal and hunting paintings.[2]

In 1918 Rudolf Frentz graduated from Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he studied noted battle painters Vasily Savinsky and Nikolai Samokysh.

Since 1904 Rudolf Frentz participated in Art Exhibitions.[3] He painted battle scenes, genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes, the most famous being his battle and animal paintings. Among his most famous paintings were ″On Znamenskaya Square in the February days of 1917_″[4] (1917), ″_Kryukov Channel_″[5] (1920), ″_Still Life_″, ″_Roadhog_″ (both 1921), ″_Carousel_″[6] (1922), ″_Nevsky Prospekt in the Night. A Cabman_″, ″_A Folk festivitie_″ (both 1923), ″_The storming of the Winter Palace_″, ″Horsewoman_″[7] (both 1925), ″_A Portrait of wife_″ (1926), ″_The defense of Petrograd from Yudenich_″ (1928), ″_Sergey Kirov at the May Day Parade_″, ″_A Workers of the Southern Urals join a Blucher's partisan detachment_″ (1929), ″_Storm of Kronstadt_″[8] (1935), ″_Sergey Kirov in the North Caucasus_″, ″_Joint actions of tanks, aircraft and cavalry. Combined attack_″[9] (both 1937), ″_Mikhail Frunze manages the crossing over Sivash_″ (1940), ″_Guerrilla paths_″ (1947), Stalingrad. February 2, 1943[10] (1950).

Rudolf Frentz was a founding member of the Leningrad Union of Artists established in 1932. From 1929 to 1956, he taught at the Repin Institute of Arts, where he was professor of painting (1939–1956) and the head of the battle-painting workshop (from 1934). From 1949 to 1956, he also was professor of painting at the Vera Mukhina Institute, also known as the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art. Among his pupils were well-known Russian painters Mikhail Kaneev, Vladislav Anisovich, Nikolai Galakhov, Yuri Belov, Stepan Privedentsev, Sergei Babkov, Alexander Koroviakov, Gevork Kotiantz, Boris Lavrenko, Konstantin Molteninov, Dmitry Oboznenko, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Nikolai Ovchinnikov, Alexander Pushnin, Vladimir Seleznev, Piotr Litvinsky, Piotr Nazarov and Elena Skuin.[11]

Exhibitions of his works have been held in Leningrad (1928,[12] 1970[13]) and Saint Petersburg (2006).[14]

Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz died in Leningrad on 27 December 1956. His paintings are held in the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery,[15] and in art museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, France, the US, Germany, England, and elsewhere.[16]

  1. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.10, 12-14, 19, 20, 357, 359, 361, 363-367, 369, 372, 380-385, 387-389, 392, 399, 405, 407, 439, 440.
  2. ^ Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz. Exhibition catalogue. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1970. P.5
  3. ^ Rudolf Frentz. Saint Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2005. P.21.
  4. ^ Петербург — Петроград — Ленинград в произведениях русских и советских художников. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980. С.139.
  5. ^ Изобразительное искусство Ленинграда. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1976. С.33.
  6. ^ Рудольф Френц. СПб, Государственный Русский музей, 2005. С.44, 83.
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  8. ^ Рудольф Френц. СПб, Государственный Русский музей, 2005. С.85.
  9. ^ Рудольф Рудольфович Френц. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1970. С.11.
  10. ^ Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1951 года. Каталог. Л—М., Искусство, 1951. С.22.
  11. ^ "Ленинградский художник Френц Рудольф Рудольфович". Socialist Realism. Kiev club of collectors. Archived from the original on 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  12. ^ Выставка художника Р. Р. Френца. Апрель-май. Каталог. Л., Община художников. 1928.
  13. ^ Рудольф Рудольфович Френц. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1970.
  14. ^ Rudolf Frentz. Saint Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2005.
  15. ^ Rudolf Frentz. Saint Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2005. P.5.
  16. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. Р.6—7.