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Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (Russian: ?????? ????????????? ???????; 5 May 1834, St Petersburg - 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow
Moscow

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) was a Russia
Russia

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n architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 of Volga German
Volga German

The Volga Germans were ethnic Germans living along the River Volga in the region of southern European Russia around Saratov and to the south. They maintained German culture, German language, traditions and churches: Evangelical Church in Germany, Reformed Church, Roman Catholicism, and Russian Mennonite....
 ancestry. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony
Abramtsevo Colony

Abramtsevo is an estate located north of Moscow, in the proximity of Khotkovo, that became a center for the Slavophile movement and artistic activity in the 19th century....
 and Russian Revival
Russian Revival

The Russian Revival style is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture, that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of Peter I of Russia Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture....
.

Life
Hartmann was orphaned at a young age and grew up in St Petersburg in the house of his uncle, who was a well-known architect.






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Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (Russian: ?????? ????????????? ???????; 5 May 1834, St Petersburg - 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 of Volga German
Volga German

The Volga Germans were ethnic Germans living along the River Volga in the region of southern European Russia around Saratov and to the south. They maintained German culture, German language, traditions and churches: Evangelical Church in Germany, Reformed Church, Roman Catholicism, and Russian Mennonite....
 ancestry. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony
Abramtsevo Colony

Abramtsevo is an estate located north of Moscow, in the proximity of Khotkovo, that became a center for the Slavophile movement and artistic activity in the 19th century....
 and Russian Revival
Russian Revival

The Russian Revival style is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture, that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of Peter I of Russia Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture....
.

Life


Hartmann was orphaned at a young age and grew up in St Petersburg in the house of his uncle, who was a well-known architect. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts
Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was opened by Count Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts in 1757....
 in St Petersburg and at first started working by illustrating books.

He also worked as an architect and sketched, among other things, the the monument to the thousandth anniversary of Russia
Millennium of Russia

The Millennium of Russia is a famous bronze monument in the Novgorod Kremlin. It was erected in 1862 to celebrate the millennium of Rurik's arrival to Novgorod, an event traditionally taken as a starting point of Russian history....
 in Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod is the foremost historic Types of inhabited localities in Russia of North-Western Russia and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast....
, which was inaugurated in 1862. He made most of his water colors and pencil drawings on journeys abroad in the years 1864 to 1868. Together with Ivan Ropet
Ivan Ropet

Ivan Petrovich Ropet was an architect widely regarded as the originator of the Russian Revival in architecture, which is sometimes called the Ropet Style after him....
, Hartmann was one of the first artists to include traditional Russian motifs in his work.

Since Vladimir Stasov had introduced him to the circle of Mily Balakirev
Mily Balakirev

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev was a Russian pianist, Conducting and composer. He is known today primarily for his work promoting nationalism in Russian music....
 in 1870, he had been a close friend of the composer Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky , one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Music of Russia. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music....
. Following Hartmann's early death from an aneurysm
Aneurysm

An aneurysm is a localized, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall.Aneurysms most commonly occur in artery at the base of the brain and in the aorta ....
 at the age of only 39, an exhibition of over 400 of his paintings was displayed in the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, in February and March 1874. This inspired Mussorgsky to compose his suite Pictures at an Exhibition
Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition is a famous suite of ten piano pieces composed by Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.The suite is generally acknowledged to be Mussorgsky's greatest solo piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists....
. Most of this collection of underlying works is now lost.

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