Viktor Hartmann

Viktor Aleksandrovich Hartmann or Gartman (Russian: Ви́ктор Алекса́ндрович Га́ртман; 5 May 1834 – 4 August 1873) was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamontov, and the Russian Revival.

Victor-Edouard Hartmann was born in Saint Petersburg into a family of German ancestry. He was orphaned at a young age and grew up in the house of his mother's sister, L. Hemilian, and her husband Alexandre Hemilian, who was a well-known architect. Hartmann studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg and at first started working by illustrating books.

Hartmann also worked as an architect and sketched, among other things, the monument to the thousandth anniversary of Russia in Novgorod, which was inaugurated in 1862. He made most of his watercolors and pencil drawings on journeys abroad between 1864 and 1868. Together with Ivan Ropet, Hartmann was one of the first artists to include traditional Russian motifs in his work.