Feodor Iwanowitsch Kalmück (1765 - 1832)

Feodor Iwanowitsch Kalmück

Feodor Iwanowitsch Kalmück (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Калмык) was a German artist of the late 18th and first third of the 19th centuries of Russian and Kalmyk origin. He was known as a painter and engraver.

Feodor Kalmück was captured as a child by Cossacks and presented to Empress Catherine II, who then gave the boy to Duchess Amalia of Hesse-Darmstadt of Baden. Kalmück studied painting in Germany and Italy. He was primarily a draughtsman and portraitist, favoring antique motifs and Renaissance religious themes. The artist rarely painted in oils; his best known works are prints. He also executed monumental murals in the Evangelical Church in Karlsruhe.