Vasily Demut-Malinovsky

Vasily Demut-Malinovsky
Vasily Demut-Malinovsky
	Василий Иванович Демут-Малиновский
Born	March 2, 1778; Saint Petersburg
Died	July 16, 1846 (aged 68); Saint Petersburg
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1807)[1]
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts (1800)[1]
Known for	Sculpture
Awards	[1] [1]

Vasily Ivanovich Demuth-Malinovsky (1779 – July 16, 1846) was a Russian sculptor whose works represent the quintessence of the Empire style.

He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts at the age of six and studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky for fifteen years. Upon the death of his teacher, he won a competition to design his tomb and departed for Rome to study with Canova. Success came to him with two colossal statues for the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg.[1]

In the aftermath of the Russian victory over Napoleon, Demuth-Malinovsky executed a number of patriotic pieces, including a tomb and a large statue of Barclay de Tolly in Estonia. Later Alexander I assigned to him the task of preparing bas-reliefs symbolizing the Neva and the Volga for the Alexander Column on Palace Square.

Demuth-Malinovsky also designed statuary and decorations for other St Petersburg churches, palaces, and public monuments, especially those designed by Carlo Rossi: the General Staff Building, the Bourse, the Admiralty, the Mining Institute, the Egyptian Gate, the Narva Gate, and the Mikhailovsky Palace.

Works

Sculptural composition on the arch of the General Staff Building
Andrew the Apostle Kazan Cathedral
Abduction of Proserpine
Russian Scaevola
Monument to Barclay de Tolly (Tartu)
Bust of Mikhail Muravyov
Bust of Alexander Suvorov

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References

Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts 1915, p. 251.

Bibliography

С. Н. Кондаков (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914 (in Russian). 2. p. 251.

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[FOOTNOTEDirectory_of_the_Imperial_Academy_of_Arts1915251-1] Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts 1915, p. 251.