Patients in the hospital lived with his family doctor and enjoyed great freedom.
In the summer the Moscow clinic closed, so the Serbian psychiatrist advised Vrubel placed in the newly opened near Moscow psychiatric hospital Usoltseva. Pictures taken at the clinic, were presented at the exhibition of Moscow artists, they could not see a shadow of the disease.ĭuring this period Vrubel painted "Six-Winged Seraph", depicting an angel with burning lamps, a very beautiful thing done burning and bright colors.īy the spring of 1904 the artist was so bad that the doctors and relatives thought that he would not live up to the summer, wanted to take him abroad, but later left the plans. In Moscow hospital, he began to paint portraits of the patients very successful, but his thoughts confused, Vrubel seemed that the wife and sister are also psychiatric patients. In the autumn of his sister, the artist transported from Riga to Moscow. Vrubel was sad and sad, considered himself worthless and would lose his life.
#THE DEMON DOWNCAST FULL#
Someone advised to define one of Vrubel in psychiatric hospitals in Riga.Īt this time, the disease was a completely different character from megalomania was gone, on the contrary, it was replaced by a full depression. In the face of this grief Mikhail behaved very courageously, personally engaged in the organization of the funeral, I tried to support his wife, who was in despair.Īfter the funeral, his son Vrubel went to his estate near Kiev, where the artist was very nervous, demanded to be transported to the hospital soon. was a misfortune - Savvochka died, the only child of Vrubel. In the hospital it went much better, he wrote letters to relatives quite logical, and on the advice of the doctor began to paint again.įebruMikhail Vrubel released from the hospital, but he was very sad, and completely by April "unstuck": often cried, homesick, said that good for nothing, could not work at all, although he was offered various orders. In September of the same year, Vrubel moved to psychiatric clinic of Serbia, in a coat and hat, even without underwear, as saying that he destroyed all his belongings. The clinical picture was dominated by the ideas of grandeur that dates six months broke even with the closest people - his wife and sister. In March 1902 the first time the artist was admitted to a private psychiatric hospital. In general, despite his illness, creativity did not leave Vrubel, even he seemed to grow, but to live with him has been done unbearably ». There were days that the "Demon" was very afraid, and then again appeared in facial expression Demon deep sadness and a new beauty. Here's what one of the exhibition recalls Vrubel wife's sister, Katherine Gay, "Mikhail, despite the fact that the picture had been put up every day early in the morning rewrote it, and I was horrified to see change every day. Vrubel paints a portrait of his son, who was named Sava, and it gives the appearance that the expression of extreme anxiety, which probably he is going through.Īt the beginning of 1902 painting "Demon Downcast" was shown to the public at the exhibition "World of Art" in St. From the moment of his relatives and friends began to notice that the artist is something wrong. The couple waited for a terrible disappointment - the boy was born with a split upper lip is deeply impressed by Mikhail Vrubel.
Couple preparing for this event a lot of fun, they thought that having a baby does not hurt their elegant and secular life, they fantasized, as with a child go abroad to expose the "Demon». Website publish the story of genius Mikhail Vrubel, who until his death was true creativity.ġ901 was marked by a major family event - Mikhail Vrubel and his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna's son. Memories of friends and family allow you to restore the chronology of the past, sorrowful years of the life of a great artist.
Shortly before the events surrounding the artist began to notice symptoms of a mental disorder. In early 1902 one of the most famous paintings of Mikhail Vrubel - "Demon Downcast" - was shown to the public at an exhibition in St.
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