Alfred Eberling
Alfred Eberling | |
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| Альфред Эберлинг | |
| Born | 3 January 1872 |
| Died | 18 January 1951 (aged 79) |
| Resting place | Shuvalovskoye Cemetery, St. Petersburg |
| Education | Ilya Repin |
| Alma mater | Higher Art School of the Imperial Academy of Arts |
| Known for | Portrait painting |
| Style | Realism |
| Spouse(s) |
Lyubov Poduskova
(m. 1900; div. 1915)Yelena Ivanova
(m. 1926) |
| Children | two |
Wilhelm Alfred Eberling,[a] also known as Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling (Russian: Альфред Рудольфович Эберлинг; 3 January 1872 – 17 January 1951), was a Russian painter of German descent, active in Saint Petersburg (later Leningrad) from Tsar Alexander III's reign through Stalin's rule, particularly known for his portraits.
Biography
Eberling studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1889 to 1897. From 1896 to 1897 he was a student of Ilya Repin. In 1891 he was awarded a small silver medal for a sketch from life. In 1898 he traveled to Constantinople to work on church paintings. In 1899 he received the title of artist for his paintings "Turkish Cemetery" and "Prima Vera". He then became a student of Franz von Lenbach in Munich.[2]
In 1904, Eberling began a teaching career that would last for several years. From 1904 to 1917, he taught at the drawing school of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts.[3] During this period he produced about a hundred portraits, mainly of representatives of the world of theater. In 1910, he illustrated Mikhail Lermontov's poem Demon.[2][4] After the October Revolution of 1917, in 1918, he participated in the creation of the Technical and Artistic School of Drawing, where he taught until 1933. In 1925–1930, he directed the art workshop of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia in Leningrad. In 1934, at the invitation of Isaak Brodsky, he took the place of the professor of painting, drawing and composition at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he worked until 1937. At the same time, until 1940, he taught at the art studio of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers and at the House of Science.[5]
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, on commission from Goznak, Eberling created portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, and Mikhail Kalinin, to enable them to be reproduced in large print runs. In 1924, he won the competition announced by Goznak for the best portrait of Lenin, and then created the drawings needed to print banknotes that appeared in 1937. In the post-war years, Eberling's drawing was used as a watermark on Soviet banknotes issued between 1947 and 1957.[6]
Selected works
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Anna Pavlova as Giselle, 1906; Museum of Theatre and Music, St. Petersburg
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Mikhail Galkin-Vraskoy, 1906; Radishchev Museum, Saratov, donated by the sitter, once an Imperial governor in Saratov, in 1906[7]
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Irina Maximovich, 1911; auctioned at MacDougall's in May 2005
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I Fade, I Wither Like a Flower, illustration from a 1910 edition of Lermontov's Demon
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Portrait of Lenin on a banknote
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Portrait of a Woman, 1935; State Art Museum of Altai Krai
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Marina Semyonova, c. 1936–1940; Vaganova Ballet Academy, St. Petersburg, donated by Yelena Ivanova-Eberling, the painter's widow, during the 1950s[11]
Notes
References
- ^ a b Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, ed. (2015). Живопись. Первая половина XX века : С — Я (collection catalog). Государственный Русский музей. Живопись XVIII–XX века (in Russian). Vol. 13. St. Petersburg: Palace Editions. pp. 217–218, cat. nos. 1214–1220. ISBN 978-5-93332-536-9. OCLC 41387709.
- ^ a b "Художник Эберлинг Альфред Рудольфович". artinvestment.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- ^ Makarenko, Mykola O. [in Ukrainian] (1914). Школа Императорского Общества поощрения художеств, 1839–1914 (in Russian). Petrograd: Yakor'. pp. 57, 116.
- ^ Groberg, Kristi A. (1997). "'The Shade of Lucifer's Dark Wing': Satanism in Silver Age Russia". In Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer (ed.). The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. p. 128. ISBN 0-8014-8331-X.
- ^ "Эберлинг Альфред Рудольфович". spb-tombs-walkeru.narod.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- ^ Ivanov, Sergeĭ Vasilʹevich, ed. (2007). Neizvestnyĭ sot︠s︡realizm: Leningradskai︠a︡ shkola. Sankt-Peterburg: NP-Print. ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7. OCLC 176256178.
- ^ Milner, John (1993). A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420–1970. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 130. ISBN 1-85149-182-1. OCLC 29787870.
- ^ Krasnotsvetova-Totskaya, Lyudmila G.; et al. (2006). Государственный художественный музей Алтайского края, Барнаул (collection artbook) (in Russian). Moscow: Belyi Gorod. pp. 43, 45; ill. 70. ISBN 9785-7793-1022-2.
- ^ Baburina, Nina I. (1988). Русский плакат. Вторая половина XIX — начало XX века (in Russian). Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR. pp. 39, 50; ill. 19.
- ^ Lapshin, Vladimir P. (1983). Художественная жизнь Москвы и Петрограда в 1917 году (in Russian). Moscow: Sovetskiy Khudozhnik. p. 10, ill. p. 12.
- ^ Bayguzina, Yelena N. (2014). "Загадка Эберлинга, или балерина М. Т. Семенова в мастерской художника". Вестник Академии русского балета (in Russian) (32). St. Petersburg: Vaganova Ballet Academy: 132–142 – via the Internet Archive.
Further reading
- Borovko, Aleksandr A. (2024). А. Р. Эберлинг и его музы (in Russian). Moscow: Pero. ISBN 978-5-00244-466-3.
- Laskin, Aleksandr S. (2006). Гоголь-моголь (in Russian). Moscow: Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye. ISBN 5-86793-434-9.
- Zagonek, Vladimir V. [in Russian] (2022). Альфред Эберлинг. Мастерская художника (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Artek. ISBN 978-5-6047808-0-0.
External links
- "ЭБЕРЛИНГ АЛЬФРЕД (Вильгельм Альфред) РУДОЛЬФОВИЧ (Генрихович)". ТОЛЬКО ХУДОЖНИКИ… Портрет и автопортрет в собрании ГХМАК. Живопись, графика (in Russian). Barnaul: State Art Museum of Altai Krai. Retrieved December 28, 2025.