Bogdan Willewalde
| Bogdan Pavlovich Willewalde | |
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Etching by Y. Andreev
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| Born | January 12, 1819 Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died |
March 24, 1903 (aged 84) Dresden, Prussia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Imperial Academy of Arts, Military art school, under Alexander Sauerweid and Karl Bryullov |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Academic art |
| Awards |
Medals of the Imperial Academy of Arts:
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Medals of the Imperial Academy of Arts:
Bogdan Pavlovich Willewalde (German: Gottfried Willewalde; January 12, 1819, Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg – March 24, 1903, Dresden) was a Russian artist, academic, emeritus professor of military art, and a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Bogdan Willewalde was born in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg on January 12, 1819, in a noble family of Bavarian origin. From childhood, he was acquainted with and a playmate of the Russian Grand Dukes and intimately connected to the Imperial family and its official hierarchy.
His initial art studies were with Jungstedt, following which he was admitted to the St Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts in 1838. He studied under Karl Bryullov and Alexander Sauerweid. In the 1840s, having achieved success in his academic studies, he was despatched abroad – to Dresden – to train in art of the war of 1813. In 1844, he was recalled to St Petersburg upon the death of Sauerweid, to finish the latter's cycle of the Russian war against Napoleon. In 1848, he was appointed as professor in the Imperial Academy of Arts, and chair of the military arts section.
Most of the material in this section has been taken from the Encyclopedia of War edited by K. I. Velichko.
At the beginning of his artistic career, Willewalde was influenced by German masters, especially the Munich-based Peter von Hess, in the spirit of whom Willewalde painted The Battle of Gissgubel. He then became a follower of the French artist Horace Vernet, although he could not quite match the latter's ease of brush-stroke and elegance.
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