Ludwig FK Bohnstedt Paintings Geocded

Nevsky Prospekt by Anichkov Bridge

Painting by Ludwig Franz Karl Bohnstedt (1822-1885) The architect's training comes through in the precise, draftmen-like lines on the buildings, but with a warm touch for the street life that goes on in the foreground.  He painted in St. Petersburg and in Italy, and in each has a different feel for the pace of life.  His figures are very natural in their poses, and are believably in motion.

Ludwig Bohnstedt Paintings geocoded

Maxim Vorobiev Paintings geocoded

View of the Kremlin (by the Stone Bridge)

Painting by Maxim Vorobiev (1787-1855) 

Very few of the Russian landscapes painters did work in a wider variety of settings and locales; It may be this time spent capturing many other scenes, atmospheres, and aesthetics adds extra depth to his depictions of the great landmarks of Moscow and Petersburg.  These he shows with more affection than other painters whose goal was to convey the appropriate awe in the face of majesty. Vorobiev shows them as places you really might want to visit.

Maxim Vorobiev Paintings geocoded

Alexei Savrasov Paintings in GeocodedArt

Moscow Kremlin, Cathedral Square

Painting by Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) Though he painted at some of the seats of power in the city center, this work is typical of many he did also in the countryside of having a tragic quality: moody lighting, mystery lurking in the corners: clearly more to the story than meets the eye.

Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) Paintings

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev Paintings in GeoCoded Art

A View of the Moscow Kremlin and the Kamenny Bridge

Painting by Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev (1753-1824). His works on the principal sights in Moscow reflect an official sanction to document symbols of power and their proper place in the world.  He did also work in Crimea, where his images have a little more feel for what it was like to stand where he was on a particular day, when the breeze had a particular feel.

Fedor Alekseev Paintings geocoded

Benjamin Paterssen Paintings in Geocoded Art

View of the Tauride Palace from the Garden

Painting by Benjamin Paterssen (1750-1815).  This artist a series of paintings of the architectural highlights of Petersburg.  Their lack of emotional content says something about their era and purpose: the construction of a great city, on a rational plan, was the ideal to be celebrated. A common feature (not present in this work) is the edge of a monumental building framing the image as a whole, providing context to judge distance and the scale of the buildings that are the principal subject.  One of the unstated subjects though, is the wide boulevards that make the city a commodious habitation for the elegant and refined pedestrians.

Benjamin Paterssen Paintings geocoded

Peter Vereshchagin Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Pskov

Painting by Peter Vereshchagin (1834-1886). Though not as prolific as his brother Vasily, this artist rendered vivid images from many locations, some with famous landmarks and other more pastoral settings because they must have moved him somehow.  A very common elements is a river bending to the horizon. His views are generally unremarkable in the atmosphere, though he did some hazy views of mountains in Crimea.

Vereshchagin Paintings geocoded

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin Paintings Geocoded

Arkhangelsk Port on Dvina

Painting by Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (1861–1939). This artist worked in a loose, colorful style,  doing more interiors and people going about their days then landscapes.  His works often seemed to be lit by a light we don't normally seem, and the objects in the scene appear to be giving off their own light.  The outdoor scenes he has done are never peaceful; there is a wind blowing through everything, or else the very spinning of the Earth animated every location and gives them a dynamic appearance.

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin Paintings geocoded