🖼 Studio-Workshop at Abramtsevo

с. Абрамцево, музей-заповедник «Абрамцево»

An 1873 outbuilding where the Abramtsevo tile and carpentry crafts began; inside is now a permanent exhibition of majolica and Vrubel's paintings.

The outbuilding was built in 1873 to a design by Viktor Hartmann; it is his only surviving wooden building.
Hartmann made no drawings and never came to the building site: the house was built by foreman Gromov from verbal instructions, Mamontov complained.
The workshop has no ceiling: light comes through a window across the whole east wall, a dormer window and roof lucarnes.
Hartmann borrowed the carved ornament on the porch, window frames and cornices from folk embroidery.
In the Mamontovs' time Antokolsky and Mamontov himself sculpted here, Vasnetsov and Repin worked here, and in summer Serov and Ostroukhov lived in the living rooms.
In the 1920s the family of the artist Pyotr Konchalovsky lived in the outbuilding.
Since 2016 it has housed a permanent Vrubel exhibition: the ceramic suite “The Snow Maiden”, “The Egyptian Woman”, vases and stove tiles.
Mamontov set up the pottery workshop where Vrubel made majolica in 1889–1890.

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