Richard ZOMMER (1866-1939), "HERBACIARNIA," 1898.

oil, canvas, dimension:53 x 72.5 cm,
Signed p.d.. R. Zommer / 1898.
The work was purchased in the 1960s at P.P.Desa in Salon no. 1 in Katowice.
Preserved condition: cracks, damage, canvas, holes. Framed painting.

Richard ZOMMER (1866-1939)
Painter and printmaker, orientalist. Born in Munich, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg from 1884 to 1893 (numerous awards). His most prolific period of work was in the 1890s, when he was sent to Asia with an archeological expedition and worked as an ethnographer (more than 20 works from that time in the collection of the Museum of Uzbekistan). From the late 1890s to the beginning of the 20th century he worked extensively in Central Asia, and in 1912-1917 he was in Armenia and Azerbaijan. In the early l. 1920s he went to Georgia, where he traveled extensively, visiting almost the entire Caucasus. He was a member of many art groups, exhibited in St. Petersburg in 1916-1920, and was one of the founders of the Society for the Encouragement of Caucasian Decorative Art in Tbilisi. He took part in exhibitions organized by this association (1916-1920 Tbilisi, 1907 Baku, 1915 Tashkent). In 1939 he was forced to leave Georgia (his whereabouts unknown since then, which has to do with the resettlement of all ethnic Germans to Siberia and Kazakhstan before World War II). He is the author of numerous paintings, as well as a number of prints, mainly of a genre and ethnographic nature. In his works he depicted both everyday and battle scenes, as well as architectural monuments and landscapes of the old towns of Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand. The artist's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, among others. Solovjev V.D. \" Russian Artists of 18th-20th Centuries." (in Cyrillic), 2005.