JOHANN-ELIAS GRIMMEL (1703-1758) - THE GERMAN PAINTER OCCUPYING AN OFFICIAL POSITION IN THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
The article examines the creative work of the German painter Johann-Elias Grimmel, who headed the Drawing Chamber of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The research is based on documentary materials, including archival ones. For the first time in the domestic historiography the paper introduces information on Grimmel’s pictures created in Germany and analyses in detail his achievements in the sphere of book illustration, painting, restoration. The author concludes that this German painter, having been an active participant of the Russian artistic life, contributed considerably to the development of the Russian visual arts.