Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin (1818-1890) was a Moscow merchant in the textile trade whose company, I.V. Shchukin and Sons, became one of the largest textile businesses in Russia. Several of his sons formed important art collections around the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth centuries.
Ivan Shchukin | |
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 Ivan Shchukin | |
| Born | Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin 1818 |
| Died | 1890 (aged 71–72) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Textile merchant |
Early life and family
editIvan Vassilievitch Shchukin was born in 1818[1] from an Old Believer background.[2]
He married Ekaterina, the daughter of Pyotr Konovich Botkin, a tea merchant and patron of the arts.[3][4] Their ten children[5] included Pyotr Shchukin (1853-1912) who built an important collection of Russian ancient art and artifacts and owned several impressionist masterpieces,[5] Sergei Shchukin (1854-1936), who was also a noted art collector,[6] Dimitri Shchukin, who assembled "Moscow's best collection of Old Masters" that eventually entered the Pushkin Museum, and Ivan Shchukin (1869-1908), who also collected art.[5]
Career
editShchukin was a self-made Moscow merchant in the textile trade whose company, I.V. Shchukin and Sons, became one of the largest textile companies in Russia and enabled him to acquire a wealth of 4 million gold rubles.[7][8]
Death and legacy
editShchukin died in 1890, leaving his business to his son Sergei Shchukin, which gave him the wealth necessary to form his collection of modern art.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Меценаты современного искусства | Семья Щукиных | Щукин Иван Васильевич | Собрание".
- ^ "The revolutionary collector who changed the course of Russian art". Apollo Magazine. 2016-10-17. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ^ "From Russia" without love: Can The Shchukin heirs recover their ancestor's art collection? Jane Graham, Sports & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 6, Spring 2009, pp. 66-107.
- ^ Sergei Ivanovitch Shchukin. Archived 2016-10-28 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 22 October 2016.
- ^ a b c "The man who loved Monet: Russia's greatest art collector" by Nancy Durrant, Saturday Review, The Times, 15 October 2016, pp. 8-9.
- ^ Sergey Shchukin and Others. Archived 2017-05-27 at the Wayback Machine Hermitage Amsterdam. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
- ^ SERGEI IVANOVICH SHCHUKIN. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
- ^ a b Spurling, Hilary. (2001). The unknown Matisse: A life of Henri Matisse: The early years, 1869-1908. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 417. ISBN 978-0-520-22203-8.
External links
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