Moller Fyodor Antonovich

(1812 - 1875), son of the Minister of Marine, Admiral Ant. You. von Moller. Served as an officer, attended the classes of the Academy of Fine Arts. Took part in suppressing the Polish uprising of 1830. His first big picture: "The Battle of Ostroе?д?ka" (1832), it was followed by "Alceste, the output Hercules from the realm of shadows" and several genres. On arrival in St. Petersburg to. Bryullov Moller began to use his leadership and retired from military service. For now, representing a family of his father, received from the Academy a gold medal. In 1839, Mr.. went to Rome, where sent her best work - the painting "The Kiss" (at his dacha His Imperial Majesty, near the Peterhof), to give him the title of academician. Inspired by the ideas in Rome, the German artists, Nazarenes and style Overbeck, Moller wrote a colossal picture: "John the Evangelist on Patmos preaching ministers of Bacchus" (in the museum of Alexander III), for which he earned the rank of professor. Activities Moller divided into two periods. At first he is a follower of K. Briullov, a good draftsman, colorist spectacular, are not devoid of taste and a genuine sense of. By this time, except for family portrait and "Kiss", are a portrait of Gogol (1841, in the museum of Alexander III), painting "Mermaid" (in the academic museum) and "Bride, think about a wedding ring". In the second period Moller fell into coldness and reflective songs, lethargy and conventional inks, dryness and stiffness performance. These deficiencies are suffering "Tatyana, . sending a letter to Onegin ", . "Moses, . landing in the basket on the water his mother "(1862), . "Vision of St. Alexander Nevsky before the battle on the Neva" (for the Moscow Church of the Savior), . Embassy to Pope Alexander Nevsky "(too), . The Battle of Alexander Nevsky and the Swedes (in the Moscow Kremlin Palace, . 1864 - 65), . "Carrying the Cross" (1869, . Museum Alexander III; written on cardboard Bryullov), . "Judith" (1870), . "Crucifixion" (1871, . in the Lutheran church in,
. Vendau in the province of Livonia). - Wed. W. Neumann "Lexikon baltischer Kunstler" Riga, 1908, p.. 109 ff.).