Gaush A.F. (1873-1947), curator of the Museum of Old Petersburg, artist

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GAUSH Alexander Fedorovich (1873, St. Petersburg - 1947), artist, collector, patron of the arts. He graduated from the Academy of Arts (1899), and was a student of P.P. Chistyakov and А. А. Kiselev. He sided with Mir Iskusstva and from the spring of 1907 participated in the Commission for the Study and Description of Old Petersburg, and in October 1909, he became a member of the board and the first curator of the Museum of Old Petersburg. Together with Benois, he designed the Historic Exhibition of Architecture in the halls of the Academy of Arts (1911). He lived in his house on the 74 Angliiskaya Embankment and in 1924 moved to the Crimea.

Reference: Марголис А. Д. Музей Старого Петербурга // Архитектура Петербурга: Материалы исслед. СПб., 1992. Ч. 2. С. 140-146; Аксенова Л. А. Современники о последних годах жизни А. Ф. Гауша: (Зап. музейного работника) // Тр. Гос. музея истории С.-Петербурга. СПб., 1997. Вып. 2. С. 35-47.

A. D. Margolis Benois Alexander Nikolaevich
Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich
Gaush Alexander Fedorovich
Kiselev Alexandеr Alexandrovich
Angliiskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 74
Марголис А. Д. Музей Старого Петербурга // Архитектура Петербурга: Материалы исслед. СПб., 1992
Аксенова Л. А. Современники о последних годах жизни А. Ф. Гауша: (Зап. музейного работника) // Тр. Гос. музея истории С.-Петербурга. СПб., 1997 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
World of Art, Association
City Museum
City Museum
Museum of Old Petersburg
Museum of Old Petersburg