Maximilian Messmacher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maximilian Messmacher

Russian artist

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1842

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 04-Sep-1906

Profession: architect, painter

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Maximilian Egorovich Messmacher (also referred to as Maximilian von Messmacher) (Russian: ??????????? ???????? ????????) (1842–1906) was a Russian architect of German ancestry.
He attended the School of Painting of St.
Petersburg Society for the Encouragement of Arts and thereafter the Imperial Academy of Arts, graduating in 1866.
He was Professor of artistic and industrial painting as well as the history of decorative styles.
He also developed a coherent system of academic training in arts.
His main activities are however related to architecture and interior decoration.
He engaged in the architecture and interior decoration of palaces of the members of the imperial family and of the mansions of aristocrats, as well as of several churches.