Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz (Russian: Рудо́льф Рудо́льфович Фре́нц; 23 July 1888 – 27 December 1956) was a Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and one of the founders of the Leningrad school of painting,[1] most famous for his battle and monumental painting.
Initially he learned from his father Rudolf Ferdinandovich Frentz (1831–1918), Academic of painting (1912), well-known Russian master of animal and hunting paintings.[2]
Since 1904 Rudolf Frentz participated in Art Exhibitions.[3] He painted battle scenes, genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes, the most famous being his battle and animal paintings. Among his most famous paintings were ″On Znamenskaya Square in the February days of 1917″[4] (1917), ″Kryukov Channel″[5] (1920), ″Still Life″, ″Roadhog″ (both 1921), ″Carousel″[6] (1922), ″Nevsky Prospekt in the Night. A Cabman″, ″A Folk festivitie″ (both 1923), ″The storming of the Winter Palace″, ″Horsewoman″[7] (both 1925), ″A Portrait of wife″ (1926), ″The defense of Petrograd from Yudenich″ (1928), ″Sergey Kirov at the May Day Parade″, ″A Workers of the Southern Urals join a Blucher's partisan detachment″ (1929), ″Storm of Kronstadt″[8] (1935), ″Sergey Kirov in the North Caucasus″, ″Joint actions of tanks, aircraft and cavalry. Combined attack″[9] (both 1937), ″Mikhail Frunze manages the crossing over Sivash″ (1940), ″Guerrilla paths″ (1947), ″Stalingrad. February 2, 1943'″[10] (1950).
Exhibitions of his works have been held in Leningrad (1928,[12] 1970[13]) and Saint Petersburg (2006).[14]
Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz died in Leningrad on 27 December 1956. His paintings are held in the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery,[15] and in art museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, France, the US, Germany, England, and elsewhere.[16]
Рудольф Рудольфович Френц. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1970.
Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Том 3. 1941—1947 годы. — М: Советский художник, 1973. — с.8, 25, 136, 219, 264, 335, 339, 342, 343, 358.
Петербург — Петроград — Ленинград в произведениях русских и советских художников. Каталог выставки. - Л: Художник РСФСР, 1980. - с.139.
Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Том 5. 1954—1958 годы. — М: Советский художник, 1981. — с.41, 382, 519.
Связь времен. 1932—1997. Художники — члены Санкт — Петербургского Союза художников России. Каталог выставки. — Санкт-Петербург: ЦВЗ «Манеж», 1997. — с.300.
Rudolf Frentz. Saint Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2005. ISBN5-93332-186-9.
Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. РР.10, 12-14, 19, 20, 357, 359, 361, 363—367, 369, 372, 380—385, 387—389, 392, 399, 405, 407, 439—440. ISBN978-5-901724-21-7, ISBN5-901724-21-6.
Данилова А. Становление ленинградской школы живописи и ее художественные традиции // Петербургские искусствоведческие тетради. Вып. 21. СПб, 2011. С. 94—105.
Санкт-Петербургская государственная художественно-промышленная академия им. А. Л. Штиглица. Кафедра монументально-декоративной живописи. СПб., Искусство России. 2011. С. 68.