Biography German RUBO

At first he studied at the Odessa art school, and then, in the year, he entered the Bavarian Academy of Arts in Munich. In the year, the first independent work of RUBO appeared, the best of which are considered the “detachment of the Arabs” and “The attack of the Cossacks in the steppe”. They shows that the artist is very scrupulous in working out the details, achieves smoothing, as if the enameling of painting.

Rubo wrote a battalum in everyday paintings from the life of the highlanders, as well as household scenes from the life of Ukrainians. The rethinking life of the south of Russia, the artist often portrayed bazaars; In his many trips, he was vividly interested in the customs of Chechens, Circassians, Kurds, and Tatars. Rubo genre scenes are always associated with the landscape.

After graduation at the Munich Academy, he began to create a series of paintings about the life of the peoples of the Caucasus and the history of their accession to Russia. In the years, the RUBO sketches “In the mountains of the Caucasus”, “Horseman”, “Group of Caucasian Highlanders” and eighteen large battal paintings for the Tiflis Military Historical Museum, which made the artist famous not only in Russia, but also in Europe.

On his canvases, battal scenes are very harmoniously combined with the surrounding landscape. RUBO very skillfully organized movement in space. The reflection of the bombing of the Anglo-French fleet by the Alexander Battery in Sevastopol on October 5, Franz Rubo, “The retreat of heroes, defenders of Sevastopol on August 27”, G. Rubo worked on the panorama of the “Defense of Sevastopol” dedicated to the heroic defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean war in years.

In the year, the artist receives from the Committee on perpetuating the memory of the heroic defense of Sevastopol in the years an order to create a large military panorama. Rubo goes to Crimea to personally see places related to defense, makes several sketches, studies the area, documents of the history of those events. For the image, he chose the moment of defense of the city - a fight on the Malakhov Kurgan in the early morning of June 6.

During work on the panorama’s canvas, the artist painted the panorama in Munich and the panoramic canvas itself was created in Rimsting. Together with Franz Rubo, famous German artists worked on the creation of the panorama, the master of historical scenes Karl Bekker -; Karl Ker; Friedrich Callmorgen; Peter Müller; Michael Zeno Dimer m; Karl Hubert Frosh; Oscar Merte, as well as students from the Bavarian Academy of Arts.

In the year, the monumental picture was ready, and she was delivered from Bavaria to Crimea. In the summer of the year, RUBO was invited to lead the battal workshop of the Higher Art School of the Academy of Arts. And his best students M. Grekov, M. Avilov, K. Tyr helped him in the installation and restoration of panorama. The RUBO of the psychology of individual characters paid a lot of attention.

He made many studies directly in Sevastopol, studied documents and met with defense participants. In the panorama you will not notice fussiness or excessive pathos. All the heroes of the RUBO are people with a deep sense of dignity, they do not flaunt, but simply honestly fulfill their duty. An interesting story is connected with one of the heroes of the picture - Admiral Nakhimov.

Based on quite reliable historical information, Franz Rubo depicted Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov on the panorama. When the panorama was installed, a special commission arrived from St. Petersburg in order to check the compliance of the General Line of the court history. The commission demanded Nakhimov to remove and replace him with the Commander -in -Chief Prince Gorchakov, who was not on the day of battle on the Malakhov Kurgan.

In St. Petersburg, they did not like "our fellow Stepanych", as the sailors called him. Nakhimovskoye "it would be better if they sent me bombs! The RUBO refused. And I refused three more commissions. The panorama still had to open. In the year, the panorama was transferred to St. Petersburg for showing Nicholas II. The king himself refused to go to Sevastopol - the revolutionary sentiments were not suppressed after the year.

Rubo again heard the comments on the presence of a large The amount of the lower ranks had to be closed by a cloud of smoke and the faces of some defense heroes did not draw. The opening took place on May 14 27. In February, Panorama was exhibited for showing in St. Petersburg, and then went to Sevastopol. The tragic fate befell the panorama “Defense of Sevastopol” during the Great Patriotic War, when on July 25 the building caught fire from the bomb, where it was.

Sailors and soldiers desperately knocked fire from the panorama, they had to cut the canvas. Later a copy of the panorama was made, and the surviving fragments of the canvas are preserved as a relic. In the year, Rubo created the panorama "Battle of Borodino." Unfortunately, only a fragment of this canvas has reached our time, which is mounted in a new version of the panorama, written by Soviet artists from a year in a separate, specially built building in Moscow.At the Nizhny Novgorod All-Russian Exhibition of the Year, another panorama of RUBO was exhibited-the “storm of the aul Akhul-g” residence of Shamil, unfortunately, it was not preserved.

In the year, Rubo left for Germany and in connection with the First World War finally settled there.

Without in recent years significant orders, he lived almost in complete oblivion. Living at the line, Rubo did not create significant works, but did a lot to promote Russian art. On his initiative, a special Russian department was formed at the traditional international exhibition in Munich, many Russian artists took part in it. In the last years of his life, he wrote mainly landscapes of Bavaria.

Rubo in the Circassian costume Franz Rubo died on March 13 in Munich. Necrologues about the death of the artist were published in many German and foreign publications. They buried the artist near his house near Munich. The grave is located in the cemetery near the entrance to the church of the Benedictine convent, built in G. on the tombstone carved: “Professor Franz Rubaund.

The bronze bas -relief with the image of the Resurrection of the Lord was made by the German sculptor Henry Vader - according to the information living in Munich, the granddaughter of the artist Sylvia Rubo Rod. Share with friends: to add or edit information about a person, contact the moderator of the section.