Fyodor Kamensky

Fyodor Kamensky

Fyodor Fyodorovich Kamensky ( _ru. Фёдор Фёдорович Каменский; OldStyleDate|2 September|1836|21 August Lesnoye, suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia - 26 August 1913, Clearwater, Florida, United States) was a Russian sculptor. From 1873 on he worked in the U.S.

Kamensky was born to a family of a Major General, an administrator of Saint-Petersburg Forestry Institute. In 1852-1860 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Nikolay Pimenov, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg and Feodor Bruni. In Academy he received Gold Medals for bas-reliefs "Senate asked Cincinnatus to stay in Rome" and "Regulus returns to Carthage". Made busts of Taras Shevchenko and Feodor Bruni. Kamensky's works were praised by Vladimir Stasov who saw them as the first break from the idealization of the subjects. Kamensky received Academy scholarship and in 1863-1869 studied in Italy.

Among sculptures made in Italy were sentimental sculptures . For the sculpture "Widow" he became an Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts and moved back to Saint-Petersburg.

Still in 1870 he returned to Florence and in 1873 he moved to Florida, United States. In United States he became a farmer. Still he continued his sculpturing making decorations for the Kansas government building, project of "Roman fountains" in New York City, sculpture Amor for Tampa, Florida.

In 1893 during preparations for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago he became the "Commissioner of Fine Arts for the Russian exposition". He prepared "huge concrete sculptures for the pavilion" as well as selected 130 paintings and statues from Russia to be presented on the exhibition. [http://home.hiwaay.net/~shancock/fair/RUSSIA.htm] His last years he worked on a complex "World" sculpture (unfinished). Fyodor Kamensky died in Clearwater, Florida on 26 August 1913

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