Maria Lvovna Dillon (1858–1932) was a Russian sculptor. She is known for her allegorical, genre, memorial, and portrait sculpture.
Dillon is acknowledged as the first Russian female professional sculptor.
Biography
Dillon was born in
Ponevezh,
Russian Empire] on October 27, 1858.
She studied at the
Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg where she was taught by
Alexander von Bock
Alexander Friedrich von Bock, also known as Aleksandr Romanovich Bok (Алексaндр Ромaнович Бок) in Russian; (7 June 1829, Reastvere, Estonia (then part of Russian Empire) - 17 August 1895, Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German sc ...
,
Nikolay Laveretsky
Nikolay Akimovich Laveretsky (Russian: Николай Акимович Лаверецкий; 13 February 1837, Moscow - 23 October 1907, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian sculptor and art professor.Russian MuseumЛАВЕРЕЦКИ Николай А ...
, and
Ivan Podozerov
Ivan Ivanovich Podozerov (Russian: Иван Иванович Подозeров: 24 February 1835, Kostroma Governorate — 29 March 1899, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian sculptor and art professor.
Biography
From 1856 to 1866, he attended the ...
. She won multiple awards while at the Academy.
She traveled to Paris, and then to Italy, after she completed her studies at the Academy.
Dillon exhibited her work in the
Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
Her works are included in the collections of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of Urban Sculpture in St. Petersburg, the State
Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow,
Pushkin House in St. Petersburg, and the
State Gornyi Institute in Kamchatka.
In the 1890s to the 1910s, Dillon created a number of memorial tombs, including those for the actress
Vera Komissarzhevskaya, the composer
Anton Arensky
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Biography
Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving ...
, and the painter
Luigi Premazzi
Luigi Premazzi (Milan, 1814 – Istanbul, Turkey, 1891) was an Italian painter, mainly of watercolor vedute.
Biography
Premazzi attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and then the private school run by Giovanni Migliara. His early watercolours ...
. She also sculpted a monument to the mathematician
Nikolai Lobachevsky in Kazan.
Her husband was the Russian painter
Fyodor Buchholz
Fyodor Fyodorovich Buchholz (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Бухгольц), born Teodor Buchholz (9 June 1857, Włocławek - 7 May 1942, Saint Petersburg) was a painter, graphic artist and art teacher from the Russian Empire. He speci ...
. She died in Leningrad on June 14, 1932.
Legacy
An exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Dillon's birth was held at St Michael's Castle, part of the State Russian Museum, in 2010.
References
External links
images of Maria Lvovna Dillon workon "International Women Sculptors 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition"
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1858 births
1932 deaths
19th-century women artists from the Russian Empire
19th-century sculptors from the Russian Empire
Women sculptors from the Russian Empire