Art critic Kira Dolinina said, Sergei Daniel, the famous St. Petersburg art historian, artist and writer. Petersburg, died at the age of 77. About this write RBC.
The cause of death was not stated. The funeral date and location will be announced later.
“A great art critic, a rigorous scientist, an artist and a beauty with the gentlest soul,” Dolinina noted.
Sergei Mikhailovich Daniel was born in November 1949. Graduated from the Leningrad College of Arts named after. VA Serov and the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after IE Repin at the Soviet Academy of Arts.
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He was a student of Soviet and Russian cultural and semiotician Yury Lotman. In 1969-1977, he studied the art of the old masters at the Hermitage under the guidance of Grigory Dlugach, and at the same time joined the unofficial creative association “Hermitage”.
The main scientific areas of interest are Western European and Russian painting, biblical iconography, theory of fine arts.
“I have only the most positive memories of him. He was a man of rare nature, whose life was inextricably linked with art. Sergei Mikhailovich had a keen artistic sense and had the talent of a popularizer,” commented Soviet and Russian art critic Semyon Mikhailovsky.
Daniel was a professor at the European University in St. Petersburg State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of St. Petersburg named IE Repina. He teaches special courses at institutes in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tartu, Kaunas.
Member of the Union of Russian Artists and the International Association of Art Critics. Author of more than 20 books. Among them are “Rembrandt. The Return of the Prodigal Son”, “Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Life and Creativity”, “From Icon to the Avant-garde. Masterpieces of Russian Painting.”
