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Zommer Richard-Karl

German painter, graphic artist, and orientalist, he graduated with a silver medal from the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts.
From 1890, he joined numerous archaeological and ethnographic expeditions to the Caucasus and Central Asia. While living in Tbilisi (1912–1937), he created several ethnographic works depicting the lives of people in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Zommer was one of the organizers and founders of the Society of Fine Arts and was the first drawing teacher of Lado Gudiashvili. He participated in exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Baku, and Tashkent.
After the Sovietization of the Caucasus in the 1930s, as a representative of the German community, he was repressed and died in exile. His works are preserved in private collections and many museums throughout the cities of the former Soviet Union, such as the Georgian National Museum of Art, the Iosif Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum, the St. Petersburg Museum of Russian Art, the Omsk and Tula Museums, the Azerbaijan Art Museum (Baku), the Museum of the History of Culture and Art of Uzbekistan (Samarkand), and the North Ossetian Art Museum (Vladikavkaz).

Richard-Karl Zommer
Date of Birth1866Date of Death1939Share

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