Bogdan Pavlovich Willewalde (1819 - 1903)

Bogdan Pavlovich Willewalde

Bogdan (Gottfried) Pavlovich Willewalde (Russian: Богдан Павлович Виллевальде) was a Russian painter of German origin in the middle and second half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist and teacher, professor emeritus of battle-painting.

Bogdan Willewalde is considered one of the most significant and brilliant masters of academic art of his time. Most of his paintings are devoted to the history of the war with Napoleon in 1812, as well as the Balkan and Caucasian wars of the 1850s and 1870s. They are mainly large, carefully worked out multi-figured compositions, based on a strict drawing.

The master was the father of another famous painter, Alexander Willewalde.