05 Works, Today, June 20th, is Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg's day, his story in Paintings #171

 Unknown Painter

Adalbert of Magdeburg, first Archbishop of Magdeburg

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Adalbert of Magdeburg (c. 910 – 20 June 981), known as the Apostle of the Slavs, was the first Archbishop of Magdeburg (from 968) and a successful missionary to the Polabian Slavs to the east of Germany. He was later canonised and his liturgical feast day was assigned as 20 June

Hugo Vogel

Arrival of Otto the Great and his wife Edith near Magdeburg on the occasion of the court day in September 937, c. 1898

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Hugo Vogel (15 February 1855, Magdeburg - 26 September 1934, Berlin) was a German painter, known primarily for historical scenes and portraits.

After graduating from the Realschule in Magdeburg in 1874, he entered the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He completed his courses there in 1880 and, three years later, exhibited several historical paintings at the Prussian Academy of Arts.

In 1886, following an extended visit to Italy, he settled in Berlin. The following year, he was given a professorship at the Academy, a position he held until 1892.

In 1893, he went to Paris to study with Jules Lefebvre. After that, he travelled throughout Spain, North Africa, Italy and the Low Countries. In 1900, he was awarded a gold medal at the "Große Berliner Kunstausstellung [de]", a prestigious art exhibition held from 1893 to 1969.

In addition to his canvases, he created frescoes with historical themes in several town halls; notably in Berlin, Hamburg and Merseburg.

From 1915 to 1917, during World War I, he accompanied Paul von Hindenburg to the Eastern Front as his official portrait painter. More on Hugo Vogel

Adalbert was born c. 910, possibly in Alsace or Lorraine, France. He was a German monk at the Benedictine Monastery of St. Maximinus in Trier, Germany. He was consecrated a Roman Catholic bishop and in 961 was sent to Kievan Rus. 

Mikhail Nesterov, (1862–1942)

St. Olga. Holy Princess Olga, c. 1892

Oil on canvas

104x39.5 cm.

Mural sketch of St. Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1 May 1862 – 18 October 1942) was a major representative of religious symbolism in Russian art. He was a pupil of Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki. His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890–91), depicting the conversion of medieval Russian Saint Sergei Radonezhsky, is often considered to be the earliest example of the Russian Symbolist style.

From 1890 to 1910, Nesterov lived in Kiev and Saint Petersburg, working on frescoes in St. Vladimir's Cathedral and the Church on Spilt Blood, respectively. After 1910, he spent the remainder of his life in Moscow, working in the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent. As a devout Orthodox Christian, he did not accept the Bolshevik Revolution but remained in Russia until his death, painting the portraits of Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Pavlov, Ksenia Derzhinskaya, Otto Schmidt, and Vera Mukhina, among others. More on Mikhail Nesterov

Princess Olga of Kiev had asked Emperor Otto I the Great to provide her a missionary from the Roman Catholic Church. Her son took the crown from her in 961, just as Adalbert arrived in Kievan Rus. Adalbert's missionary companions were slain and Adalbert barely escaped. 

 Ivan Eggink (1787—1867)

Grand Prince Vladimir is choosing the religion

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Ivan Yegorovich Eggink (Johann Leberecht Eggink, (1784–1867), was a historical painter and portrait painter. Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg .

In 1816, together with the painter Gustavus Adolf Gippius, he took a walking tour of Europe.

After that, in order to continue his education, he dealt mainly in historical painting in Dresden, Berlin, Bonn, Munich and Italy, and in 1822 in Verona , where Emperor Alexander I was then on the occasion of the congress, he presented several of his works to this emperor. These works were purchased by the emperor, and their executor was assigned a pension from the treasury for a six-year stay in Rome .


Returning to Russia in 1829, received from the Academy (in 1833) the title of non-class artist and in 1834, the title of academician . Then he lived in Mitau , where from 1837 to 1858. consisted of a drawing teacher in a gymnasium. More on Ivan Yegorovich Eggink

Kievan Rus subsequently was converted by missionaries from Constantinople and became part of Byzantine Christianity.

Unknown Painter

The Expulsion of Saint Adalbert, c. 1470-1480

Pine-wood, gilded, tempera

87 × 99 cm

Szépművészeti Múzeum

Upon escaping Kievan Rus, Adalbert traveled to the imperial court at Mainz, Germany, where he remained for four years, until he was named Abbot of Wissembourg in Alsace. There he worked to improve the education of the monks. He later became the first Archbishop of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, in contemporary Germany. Adalbert travelled to Rome to receive the pallium before assuming his See.

The Archepiscopacies of Hamburg and Bremen had been established with the intention that they would serve as bases for missions in northern and eastern Europe. The Archdiocese of Magdeburg was designated to provide missionaries to the eastern European Slavs. Adalbert also established dioceses for Naumburg; Meissen; Merseburg; Brandenburg; Havelberg; and Poznań, Poland. He died on 20 June 981. More on Adalbert of Magdeburg

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