Schulze artist paintings exhibition. The magical light of landscapes by Ivan Schultze

The works of the master of landscape painting will be exhibited at the Muravyov-Apostol Museum-Estate

Photo: DR Schultze Ivan Fedorovich Sunny afternoon. Signed lower right Iw. F. Choultse. Oil, canvas. 65 x 81 cm

Must be seen to be believed...

Artist Ivan Fedorovich Choultse

If an artist, with the help of the image he creates, manages to convey his feelings, then his work will not need a translator. Our eyes see the artist's painting in the same way as the real world. There is no need for speech here, art is ruled by emotions. A talented artist contains the very essence of fine art, when the light-winged and elusive muse is combined with the skill and precision of artistic knowledge.

Cote d'Azur (clickable)

Ivan Fedorovich Schultze is a master of lyrical landscape of Russian artistic emigration.
Student Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky(I recommend looking at the topic about him) He received his art education at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. His first exhibition at the Academy took place in 1903, after which he became an honored participant in all major galleries in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and was elected court artist of Emperor Nicholas II. For his success in art, he was encouraged to travel abroad and was able to devote a significant amount of time to the study of nature, traveling throughout Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Arctic. After the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to Paris. The artist becomes a welcome participant in the French Salons, his first personal exhibition in Paris (1923) took place at the Gerard Freres gallery, Ivan Fedorovich's works were sold out on the opening day. There were similar successes at his solo exhibition in London (1927), where all of his works sold out within the first six days. Exhibitions in New York (1931) and Chicago (1933) were also a great success. Throughout his life, Ivan Fedorovich Schultze was valued as a brilliant portrait painter of an analytical nature. The London Times, in an article about the artist, summed up the painter's aesthetic achievements by saying: "You have to see it to believe it."

In the park

Sunny afternoon

Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God, Oreanda, Crimea

Before the storm

Spring in the Alps

Evening in Capri

Sunrise on Capri

Sunset on the Adriatic Sea

Parthenon after the storm

Pavlovsk

Sunset on the river

Polesie spring

Winter in Engadines

Winter morning. Engadine

Winter morning, Engadine.

Winter sunset

Winter. Haute Savoie Suisse.

In the grip of winter

Lunar Gamma (Lake Engadine)

January. Chamonix, Haute Savoie

Fog and frost (Lake St. Moritz)

Sunlit winter forest

Ivan Fedorovich Choultse - Petersburg, 1877 // 1937(9), Paris

If an artist, with the help of the image he creates, manages to convey his feelings, then his work will not need a translator. Our eyes see the artist's painting in the same way as the real world. There is no need for speech here, art is ruled by emotions. A talented artist contains the very essence of fine art, when the light-winged and elusive muse is combined with the skill and precision of artistic knowledge.
Cote d'Azur (clickable)

Ivan Fedorovich Schultze is a master of lyrical landscape of Russian artistic emigration.
A student of Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky, he received his art education at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. His first exhibition at the Academy took place in 1903, after which he became an honored participant in all major galleries in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and was elected court artist of Emperor Nicholas II. For his success in art, he was encouraged to travel abroad and was able to devote a significant amount of time to the study of nature, traveling throughout Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Arctic. After the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to Paris. The artist becomes a welcome participant in the French Salons, his first personal exhibition in Paris (1923) took place at the Gerard Freres gallery, Ivan Fedorovich's works were sold out on the opening day. There were similar successes at his solo exhibition in London (1927), where all of his works sold out within the first six days. Exhibitions in New York (1931) and Chicago (1933) were also a great success. Throughout his life, Ivan Fedorovich Schultze was valued as a brilliant portrait painter of an analytical nature. The London Times, in an article about the artist, summed up the painter's aesthetic achievements by saying: "You have to see it to believe it."

In the park

Sunny afternoon

Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God, Oreanda, Crimea

Before the storm

Spring in the Alps

Evening in Capri

Sunrise on Capri

Sunset on the Adriatic Sea

Parthenon after the storm

Pavlovsk

Sunset on the river

Polesie spring

Winter in Engadines

Winter morning. Engadine

Winter morning, Engadine.

Winter sunset

Winter. Haute Savoie Suisse.

In the grip of winter

Lunar Gamma (Lake Engadine)

February 17 - April 2, 2017
Organizer: I.F. Foundation Schultze (Switzerland)

For the first time in Moscow, a monographic exhibition of the great Russian painter, master of landscape painting and, according to contemporaries, a true “wizard of light” - Ivan Fedorovich Schultze will be presented. His works reflect the experience of the famous classics of Russian art of the 19th century and rightfully belong to the best examples of Russian realistic landscape. Being a talented student of Konstantin Kryzhitsky and Arkhip Kuindzhi, he created paintings that were highly valued in the Russian Empire: for example, among his admirers was the crowned Romanov family. However, Schultze was forced to leave his homeland in the post-revolutionary years in order to become famous in the West. Today his work can be seen in the Washington State Museum of Art, the Hillwood State Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Fine Arts, the Baburizza Museum in Chile, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and many other museum and private collections.

The artist’s large-scale exhibition in Moscow is a unique project dedicated to the repatriation of Russian art. After almost a hundred years of oblivion and on the anniversary of the revolution, the name of Ivan Schultze returns to his homeland.

Throughout his life, Ivan Schultze (1874-1939) was valued as a brilliant nature portraitist. From 1906 to 1916, his works participated in regular exhibitions of the Academy of Arts and the Association of Artists in St. Petersburg and Moscow, they were purchased by many Russian collectors, among his connoisseurs was Carl Faberge. In the early 1920s, not accepting the October Revolution, Schultze left for Paris, and his name was forgotten in Russia, but became widely known in Europe and America.

Schultze's works were purchased by the most famous gallerists in Paris, London, Chicago and New York: Gerard Frerre, Arthur Tusse, John Levy, Arthur Ackermann and Edouard Jonas (gallery owner and later curator of the Cognac-Jay Museum in Paris). Jonas, being the most famous connoisseur of old art, only once exhibited the works of a contemporary artist - and these were works by Schultze. The master’s exhibitions, which were held with great success, strengthened his name among representatives of art criticism, who recognized him as a “wizard of light.”

In 2015, on the initiative of the head of the Russian department of the Koller auction house (Switzerland), Vadim Goncharenko, the “Ivan Fedorovich Schultze Foundation” was created to preserve the legacy of the great Russian artist. Today, the Foundation houses some of the artist’s works, as well as archival documents. “We managed to dive deeply into the world of Ivan Fedorovich Schultze, trying to get to know him better, discover his thoughts and feelings, and understand his actions. With each new element of the mosaic, the appearance of the real Schultze became more and more distinct. And although there are still gaps in his biography, it is still indisputable that the “wizard of light,” as he was called, was a true genius in the field of realistic art,” says Foundation President Bettina Goncharenko.

The exhibition will include 60 significant works from the period of the artist’s life in Russia until 1920 and emigration from 1921 to 1939 from the Foundation’s own collection, private collections in Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland and Canada, and the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in St. Petersburg.

Already in Schultze’s early works, one can discern the master’s talent for conveying complex solar effects during the day: the lyrical landscape “Lake Shore at Sunset” (1909), representing the artist’s native land, “Arctic Landscape. Spitsbergen" (1910), written after a trip with Kryzhitsky to the Spitsbergen archipelago and shown in 1911 at the Academy of Arts, "Oaks in Bread" (1917).

Painting. Schulze Ivan Fedorovich Arctic landscape. Spitsbergen. 1910 Oil on canvas. 130x86 cm frame - 98x142 cm Museum of the Arctic

The exhibition will also feature a landmark work on the artist's path to recognition in Europe. Painted from memories of Russian nature already in Europe in 1923, the painting “November Evening” was successfully exhibited by the Gerard Gallery at the 136th Spring Salon at the Grand Palais on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. “The Rocks of the Faraglioni, Capri,” one of the most important works in the master’s oeuvre, received wide recognition, being exhibited by the Gerard Gallery as number one at Schultze’s major exhibition in 1925 in Paris and then in New York.

The exhibition in Moscow will reflect the unique perception of European nature through the prism of nostalgic memories that resonated in the artist’s work throughout his life. It is no coincidence that the work “Wisteria” from the 1920s depicts flowers that attracted the artist’s attention due to their extraordinary resemblance to Russian lilacs.

Part of the exhibition will include original postcards from 1912-1916, written by Schultze. Along with works by Repin, Kuindzhi, Arkhipov, Makovsky, Surikov, the artist’s landscapes were effectively decorated with miniature “open letter” forms. This is the name of the pre-revolutionary postcard - the most important source for studying the work of many outstanding artists today.

The Museum-Estate of the Muravyov-Apostles was chosen to exhibit the exhibition in Moscow - one of the best examples of Moscow? Neoclassical architecture first? half of the 19th century, revived after restoration by the Foundation established by Christopher Muravyov-Apostol. The Foundation continues to restore the once severed connection with the past of Russian art. The artist who left Russia, famous at the beginning of the last century, was forgotten and erased from the history of Russian art. Just as the Muravyovs discovered Russia at the end of the century, so Russia discovers the work of Ivan Schultze. Return is the key word. Restoring another link in a broken chain.

A catalog of works by I.F. was published for the exhibition. Schultze.

The following events will take place as part of the exhibition:

— round table together with MGHPA named after. S.G. Stroganov “Russian realistic landscape: tradition and development paths in the 21st century”;
- poetry evening;
- a program of lectures (frequency - once a week) on the painting techniques of Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Schultze.

The exhibition is held under the patronage of the Anisimov family of philanthropists.
Exhibition opening hours and address: From Tuesday to Friday - 14.00-20.00, Saturday, Sunday - 13.00-19.00
Museum-Estate of the Muravyov-Apostles, st. Staraya Basmannaya, building 23/9, building 1 (entrance from Alexandra Lukyanova Street)
Ticket prices: 350 rubles, 150 rubles - preferential.
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In Moscow, from February 17 to April 2, 2017, at the Muravyov-Apostol Museum-Estate, the first monographic exhibition in Russia of the artist Ivan Schultze, a student of Arkhip Kuindzhi and Konstantin Kryzhitsky, will be held.

The exhibition will feature about 60 works by the painter, including such famous ones as “November Evening”, “Lake Shore at Sunset”, “Arctic Landscape. Spitsbergen" and "Oaks in Bread".

Ivan Fedorovich Schultze (1874-1939) was born in St. Petersburg into a family of Russified Germans.

Initially I studied to be an engineer. Schultze showed his first sketches to the famous landscape painter Konstantin Kryzhitsky (1858-1911), when he was already over thirty. Kryzhitsky then invited Schultze to be his student.

In addition to Kryzhitsky, Arkhip Kuindzhi (1841-1910) and the Swiss painter Alexander Kalam (1810-1902) had a significant influence on the formation of Schultze as an artist.

Landscape by Schultze I.F.

Together with Kryzhitsky, Schultze went on an expedition to the island in 1910. Spitsbergen, where he painted a large number of Arctic landscapes dated this year (Danish and Bear Islands, St. Magdalene Bay of the Spitsbergen archipelago and others).

Shultse I.F. Spitsbergen, 1910

By 1916, Ivan Fedorovich received wide recognition from society: his works were bought by the Romanovs (Nicholas II’s brother Mikhail Alexandrovich, Grand Duke Grigory Mikhailovich and others). Several paintings were acquired by Carl Faberge (attested in the 1918 inventory of his property). His success was greatly facilitated by the development of postcards: Schultze’s landscapes on “open letters” were scattered throughout the country.

In 1921, Schultze emigrated to Paris and in 1927 received French citizenship.

Shultze I.F. Evening in Capri

Shultze I.F. Sunrise on Capri

Shultze I.F. Parthenon after the storm

"The Wizard of Light" Ivan Schultze

Since 1922, exhibitions of Ivan Schultze's paintings have been held in Paris, London, and New York.

One of the critics, speaking about the exhibition One Hundred and Fifty Years of Russian Painting (“One Hundred and Fifty Years of Russian Painting”) at the New York Hammer Galleries, called Ivan Schulze "wizard of light" (The New York Times, May 25, 1935), implied the magical effect of light in the artist's paintings.

Another characteristic of Schultze’s work, once given by a columnist for The London Times, is also widely known: "You have to see it to believe it" .

The artist Ivan Schultze is also often described as "masters of Russian lyrical landscape" .

Winter landscapes are most often found in Schultze's work, many of them Swiss. Very rarely do people and animals appear in the artist’s paintings.

Shultze I.F. Winter. Haute Savoie Suisse

Shultze I.F. Before the storm

From the mid-1930s, Schultze moved to Nice. After this, several more exhibitions of his works took place in the USA (New York, April 1936; Oklahoma City, May-June 1938; New York, April 1940 and May 1943). Ivan Fedorovich Schultze died in Nice in 1939.

In Russian museums today there is a small number of works by the artist (for example, in the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in St. Petersburg and in the Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts), while in American and Canadian collections Schultze’s paintings are represented much more widely (in the Hillwood Museum in Washington, Washington State University Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, or Montreal Museum of Fine Arts). Many of Schultze's paintings are in private collections.