Burkhardt Fedor

Winter landscape 46x63 cm, oil on canvas
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The painting “Winter Landscape” represented in the collection is painted with great love. It is really beautiful in intensity, harmony and soundness of paints, soft in colors. Similar to other works of the artist this picture is characterized by professional skill that was always the main aspect of Russian salon painters.

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Burhardt Fedot Karlovich
(1854, St.Petersburg – 1918)

Fedot Karlovich Burhadt was one of the best representative of the so called “salon landscape”. Despite constant discussions among art critics, specific and ambiguous art of Russian salon is always characterized by skill, artistry and virtuosity of execution. Aiming at success at spectators the painters gamed the amateurs by abstractedness of topics of their pictures from critical social genres using neutral and always advantageous motives. But among “salon” painters one could often find brilliant artists, the masters of exquisite historical genre canvases, virtuous landscape painters and artists of genre arts. F. Burhardt could be fairly referred to the popular landscape painters having great success among customers. Similar to the works of his contemporary, a well-known salon landscape painter Yu. Yu. Klever the pictures of F. Burhardt are numerous and diverse. He takes the motives mostly from nature of his native country mainly reproducing either sunny summer woodland scenery or snow-covered winter forests and meadows. The picture “Winter Landscape” represented in the collection is painted with great love; it is really beautiful in intensity, harmony and soundness of paints, soft in colors. Similar to other works of the artist this picture is characterized by professional skill that was always the main aspect of Russian salon painters. The main function of such art is spectators’ relaxation. First of all it is spectacular that is why the skill of painting was the main thing followed by fascinating plot and sensation as well as idealization or vice versa specificity and naturalism. The painters knew that spectator could be always attracted both by thoroughly detailed technique and by “wide” painting.

The painter was a member of administration of Vilenskiy artistic studio with such honorable members as V. V. Vereshchagin, V. Ye. Maiakovskii, I. P. Turgenev and others. He also painted still life paintings, worked with easel graphic art. The artists took an active part in expositions and his works were broadly exhibited in expositions of different societies, such as St. Petersburg Society of painters, Moscow Society of Fine Arts’ Amateurs, Society of historical paintings’ artists, “Group of painters” and Northern Study Group.

One cannot expressly talk about “Russian Salon” and F. Burhardt’s belonging to the circle of its painters. Many contemporaries marked the rage and style of F. Burhardt’s canvases that allowed him to enter the number of stylish artists of the end of XIXth century and beginning of XXth century.

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