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Great-grandfather of the artist – Anton Antonovich Vrubel (from Polish: wróbel, meaning sparrow) – was originally from Białystok and served as a judge in his local town. His son Mikhail Antonovich Vrubel [ ru ] (1799–1859) pursued a military career.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Вру́бель; March 17, 1856 – April 14, 1910, all n.s.) is usually regarded amongst the Russian painters of the Symbolist movement and of Art Nouveau.
- Russian
- March 17, 1856
- Omsk, Russian Federation
- April 14, 1910
Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) holds a unique place in the history of Russian art. On the one hand, he belonged to the legendary cohort of Russian Art Nouveau artists.
- The Demon Seated, 1890. Vrubel nurtured the idea and image of his Demon for several years, and it is one of the first works to showcase his “crystal” style.
- The Judgment of Paris, 1893. In 1889, Vrubel moved to Moscow, where he made the life-altering acquaintance of the major industrialist, philanthropist and art lover Savva Mamontov.
- The Princess of Dreams, 1896. This huge canvas was commissioned again by Savva Mamontov for the pavilion at the 1896 All-Russian Art and Industrial Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod.
- Portrait of Savva Mamontov, 1897. Vrubel painted few portraits of real people, but one of them was of his benefactor, Savva Mamontov. The dark, crooked image reflects the real-life drama in which the industrialist found himself.
Vrubel's "Princess of Dreams" floats above the ship in a white tunic and chaplet of white lilies. Fingering the strings of his lute, Prince Jaufre appears to be gazing at his beloved. The "Princess of Dreams" was painted like an ancient fresco.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel was born in 1856 in Omsk to a family of a desk officer. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Vrubel, was of Polish descent, and his mother, Anna Grigoryevna, had Danish roots and belonged to a noble Basargin family.
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MIKHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH VRUBEL (1856–1910) was one of the first modern Russian artists—modern in the sense that he broke away from academic traditions, expressing his own artistic vision in a unique vocabulary. Although Vrubel is sometimes considered a Symbolist, his art is rather difficult to categorize.
