Mark Antokolski belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Mark Antokolski as Russian sculptor (1840–1902).
Mark Antokolski was born at Vilnius in 1840. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Imperial Academy of Arts.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as sculptor.
Among his best-known works are Peter I Monument in Taganrog and Monument to Peter the Great in Arkhangelsk. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Mark Antokolski died in 1902, aged 62. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Notable work: Peter I Monument in Taganrog
- Notable work: Monument to Peter the Great in Arkhangelsk
