Mussorgsky pictures at an exhibition paintings
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Modest mussorgsky great gate of kievVictor Alexandrovitch Hartmann was born April 23rd, 1834, in St. Petersburg. Both his parents died before he was four years old, and he was brought up by an aunt, Luisa Ivanovna Gemilian, wife of a well-known St.
Petersburg architect and a former lady-in-waiting to the tsarina. Through the influence of Mme. Gemilian, Hartmann was admitted at the age of twelve to the Imperial Academy of Mines, where he distinguished himself mainly by drawing sharp, malicious caricatures of his teachers.
After six years he was withdrawn from the Mining Academy and placed in the Academy of Fine Arts. Here his progress was extremely rapid, both in painting and architecture. In 1862 he left the Academy, having won its highest awards, and embarked upon his professional career.
Pictures at an exhibition (emerson, lake and palmer)
In 1864 Hartmann married and went abroad. Most of his watercolors and genre sketches date from this period, including six of the ten pictures immortalized by Mussorgsky. Three of his four years abroad were spent in France, especia