Flying Demon

Vrubel M. A.

1856, Omsk - 1910, St Petersburg

Flying Demon

1899

oil on canvas. 138,5 x 430,5
Ж-1846
Пост. в 1930 из ГТГ; ранее - ГМФ; с 1908 - собр. М.П,Рябушинского (Москва); ранее - собр. А.А.Врубель, сестры художника (Санкт-Петербург)
Реставрация: Минин А.В. (1992)

Location in museum The Benois Wing, Room 66 Open the panorama of the hall in the virtual tour
Period Late 19th century – Early 20th century
Keywords Modern | The Caucasus | горный пейзаж
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Like all other works by Mikhail Vrubel, Flying Demon is a profoundly sincere and confessional painting. The young Nietzschean hero cannot do evil, yet is unable to escape the chains of loneliness, the “inner dungeon” of his own making. Proud, melancholy and disdainful, he soars in the lifeless heights. Flying Demon was an extremely topical work. Combining the fin-de-siècle atmosphere with a strong element of autobiography, it expressed the moods of many Russians of that time.

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