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Amandus Adamson
(12 November 1855, Uuga-Rätsepa, near Paldiski -26 June 1929, Paldiski) was an Estonian sculptor and painter.
Born into a seafaring family, Adamson excelled in wood carving as a child. He moved to St. Petersburg in 1875 to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Alexander Bock. After graduation he continued to work as a sculptor and teacher in St. Petersburg, with an interruption from 1887 through 1891 to study in Paris and Italy, influenced by the French sculptors Jules Dalou and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
Adamson produced his best-known work in 1902. His Russalka Memorial, dedicated to the 177 lost sailors of the Ironclad warship Russalka, features a bronze angel on a slender column. The other work is architectural. His four allegorical bronzes for the Eliseyev department store in St. Petersburg (for architect Gavriil Baranovsky), and the French-style caryatids and finial figures for the Singer House (for architect Pavel Suzor) are major components of the "Russian Art Nouveau" visible along Nevsky Prospekt.
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Painting ID:: 71159
Pakri motiiv
1898(1898)
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
23.7 x 35.4 cm (9.33 x 13.94 in)
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Painting ID:: 72268
Pakri motiiv
Date 1898(1898)
Medium Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
Dimensions 23.7 X 35.4 cm (9.33 X 13.94 in)
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Painting ID:: 73487
Bay of Naples
1896(1896)
Oil on canvas
39.7 X 52 cm (15.63 X 20.47 in)
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Painting ID:: 74018
Evening in Suur-Pakri
1890s ?C 1900s
Oil on canvas
23.2 X 33.5 cm (9.13 X 13.19 in)
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Painting ID:: 74019
Evening near Paldiski
2nd half of 1890s ?C 1910s
Oil on canvas
32.5 X 45.3 cm (12.8 X 17.83 in)
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Amandus Adamson
(12 November 1855, Uuga-Rätsepa, near Paldiski -26 June 1929, Paldiski) was an Estonian sculptor and painter.
Born into a seafaring family, Adamson excelled in wood carving as a child. He moved to St. Petersburg in 1875 to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Alexander Bock. After graduation he continued to work as a sculptor and teacher in St. Petersburg, with an interruption from 1887 through 1891 to study in Paris and Italy, influenced by the French sculptors Jules Dalou and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
Adamson produced his best-known work in 1902. His Russalka Memorial, dedicated to the 177 lost sailors of the Ironclad warship Russalka, features a bronze angel on a slender column. The other work is architectural. His four allegorical bronzes for the Eliseyev department store in St. Petersburg (for architect Gavriil Baranovsky), and the French-style caryatids and finial figures for the Singer House (for architect Pavel Suzor) are major components of the "Russian Art Nouveau" visible along Nevsky Prospekt.
. Related Artists to Amandus Adamson: | Henrietta Ronner-Knip | Nathaniel Hone | Francois Ferriere | fritz thaulow | Willem Kalf |
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