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XIV Russian artists
Andrey Rublev (ca. 1360 ca. 1430)
The art of Andrey Rublev is a brilliant artist.
Ancient Russia is one of the highest attainments of Russian and all world art.
Rublev's work is permeated with the ideas of the patriotic struggle of the Russian people against the Tatars, the desire for the unification of Russia.
In his painting, Rublev embodied the aesthetic and ethical ideals of the people, their idea of beauty, dignity and moral perfection of a person.
In the traditional images of religious legends (apostles, saints, angels), Rublev embodied the real character traits of his contemporaries who defended the independence of Russia in the battle of Kulikovo Field.
Theophanes the Greek is one of the greatest masters of the Middle Ages.
His works, executed in Byzantium, have not been preserved.
All his famous works were created in Russia and for Russia, where he lived for more than thirty years.
He introduced the Russians to the highest achievements of the Byzantine spiritual culture, which was experiencing one of the last ups in his time.
XV Russian artists
Dionysius (c. 1440 between 1502 and 1508)
We know much more about the life of the icon painter Dionysius than about his brilliant predecessors — Theophan the Greek and Andrey Rublev.
Dionysius achieved fame during his lifetime.
It so happened that the work of a talented icon painter was loved by the sovereign of "all Russia" Ivan III.
XVII Russian artists
Zubov Alexey Fedorovich (1682-1750)
A. F. Zubov is the largest Russian engraver of the Petrine era, one of the first masters of secular engraving.
After the death in 1689 of his father, Fyodor Zubov, an outstanding icon painter of the Armory, the Zubov brothers, Alexey and the elder Ivan (later also an engraver) were enrolled there as icon painters.
Ivan Nikitin (1680-1742)
Ivan Nikitin, a famous Russian artist, one of the first to receive a European education.
He was born in Moscow in the family of a priest.
He was a chorister in the patriarch's choir, then a teacher of drawing and "tsifiri", that is, arithmetic, at an artillery school.
In 1716, while traveling in Europe, Peter I wrote to his wife: "Beklemishev and the painter Ivan met me.
And as soon as they come to you, then ask the king to order him to write off his person; you also want to write off the other cavos, and especially a matchmaker, so that you know that there are also good masters from our people."
It was about portraits of the Polish king and the Duke of Mecklenburg and about the Russian painter Ivan Nikitin.
XVIII Russian artists
Alekseyev Fyodor Yakovlevich (Between 1753 and 1755-1824)
Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev (1753/1755-1824) was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the national urban landscape.
He was born in St. Petersburg.
The son of a watchman at the Academy of Sciences.
Alekseyev's great talent manifested itself already in early childhood.
In 1766-73 he studied at the Academy of Arts, first in the class of "painting flowers and fruits", and only then in landscape, which was much more in line with his inclinations.
In 1773, he received a gold medal for one of the landscapes, which gave him the right to travel to Italy.
Alexey Petrovich Antropov (1716-1795)
Alexey Petrovich Antropov (1716-1795), an outstanding Russian portrait painter.
The son of a gunsmith.
Since 1732 a student of the remarkable Russian masters of painting A. Matveev and I. Vishnyakov.
He took part in decorative paintings of Winter (1744), Summer (1748), Tsarskoye Selo (1749) and other palaces.
Under the direction of Antropov, St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kiev was painted (1752-55).
The merits of the young talented painter were appreciated, and in 1761 he was appointed to the Synod the chief supervisor of paintings and icon paintings.
Russian Russian art history, however, Antropov remained primarily as a remarkable portraitist, whose work came from the national tradition of the XVII century and the portrait canon of Peter the Great's time, embodying the next stage in the development of Russian portrait painting of the XVIII century.
Argunov Ivan petrovich (1729,? - 1802)
Ivan Petrovich Argunov lived for 73 years.
Historians who are engaged in the meantime invariably complain: they say that Ivan Petrovich was a serf, a forced artist, the lack of freedom was his tragedy.
That's right, of course, being a serf is terrible.
But was this wonderful creator so unhappy?
Was his life so bitter and hopeless?
Ivan Petrovich Argunov was born in a serf family of architects and painters: this family first belonged to Prince Cherkassky, in 1743 the Argunovs became the property of the Counts Sheremetevs.
The future artist grew up and was brought up by his St. Petersburg uncle S. M. Argunov: he served as the manager of his master's "Millionth House".
Peter Vasilyevich Basin (1793-1877)
The work of P. V. Basin is characteristic of the artist of the Russian academic school of the mid XIX century
Basin was associated with the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences almost all his life.
He began attending her drawing classes as an eighteen year old boy as an outsider student and completed his education, studying historical painting with V. K. Shebuev.
A large gold medal received for the painting "Christ drives out the merchants from the temple" (1818) gave him the right to a pensioner's trip to Italy.
Karl Petrovich Beggrov (Karl Joachim) (1799-1875)
K. P. Beggrov was engaged in lithography, watercolor and painting.
In 1818-21, he studied in the landscape class of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences with M. N. Vorobyov.
He worked in the lithographic workshop of his older brother I. P. Beggrov, where he acquired the skills of drawing on stone.
Along with this, from 1825 he served as a lithographer at the Main Directorate of Railways and Public Institutions.
In 1828, he was invited to perform paintings in the Winter Palace.
In 1831, K. P. Beggrov received from the Academy of Arts the title of appointed, and in 1832 - Academician of perspective painting for the painting "Mikhailovsky Palace".
He executed picturesque portraits of emperors Alexander I, Nicholas I, academician A. X. Vostokov.
Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich (1757-1825)
Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich (1757-1825), an outstanding Russian portrait painter.
He was born in Mirgorod in the family of a Cossack.
He received his first painting lessons from his father.
In 1787, Catherine II was heading through Ukraine to the Crimea.
All kinds of magnificent buildings and palaces were erected on the path of the empress.
One of them was decorated by the son of a small Cossack foreman Borovikovsky, who was assigned to the Mirgorod regiment.
According to legend, Catherine praised and rewarded him, so that with the money he received, he was able to go to St. Petersburg.
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (1799-1852)
Charlemagne.
This is what his student, poet and artist Taras Shevchenko called Karl Pavlovich Bryullov.
He remained faithful to the memory of Bryullov until the end of his life, a former Cossack from Count Engelhardt's household owed much of his freedom to him.
So many of the artist's contemporaries called him.
Italians literally broke into the Roman workshop of Bryullov to see "The Last Day of Pompeii", Walter Scott called this picture a majestic epic, Gogol dedicated an enthusiastic article to it.
"Bryullov's painting," he wrote — " is one of the brightest phenomena of the XIX century.
This is the bright resurrection of painting, which has been in a semi lethargic state for a long time...
Bryullov's painting can be called a complete, universal creation.
It was all in it."
The artist's return from Italy to his homeland with the painting "The Last Day of Pompeii" was a triumph of Russian art.
Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (1780-1847)
Russian Russian artist Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, the founder of the genre of everyday life in Russian painting.
He was born in Moscow in the family of a merchant.
In his youth, he was a surveyor, later a minor official.
He began his artistic activity with oil and pastel portraits, the most authentic work of this period is "Portrait of a Mother" (1801).
Since 1807 he began to take lessons from the famous portrait painter V. Borovikovsky.
The artist's self portrait (1810) is already the work of a master.
Maxim Nikiforovich Vorobyov (1787-1855)
Maxim Nikiforovich Vorobyov is a Russian landscape painter.
From 1798 to 1809, he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts under F. Y. Alekseev and M. M. Ivanov.
In 1809, for" The view of the newly built Church of Our Lady of Kazan with circumlocutions", he received a Large gold medal, which gave him the right to a business trip abroad, but the international situation associated with the Napoleonic wars in Western European countries forced Vorobyov to postpone the trip.
As an assistant to F. Y. Alekseev, the young artist traveled to Russian cities, making sketches for urban architectural landscapes.
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782-1836)
Among the lifetime portraits of A. S. Pushkin there is one, especially beloved and popular.
The thought and inspiration, the beauty of a creative act and the high destiny of the " chosen one of the muses— - this is the content of this portrait.
A clean, unclouded brow, a calm and significant face, a stately, dignified pose, a look directed into the distance, over the audience, a strict frock coat and a plaid thrown over his shoulder, and finally, a statuette of the Muse playing the lyre— a classic symbol of poetry - everything here is subordinated to the author's plan.
Before us is a Poet whose historical and comprehensive significance was already realized by his contemporaries.
Levitsky Dmitry Grigoryevich (1735-1822)
He received his initial skills in art, apparently, from his father, the engraver G. Levitsky.
Then he studied with A. Antropov (from 1752), who painted St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kiev in 1752-55.
A student of A. Antropov, he adopted from him truthfulness and impartiality in the depiction of dignitary models, a sense of self esteem that excludes lies and obsequiousness.
A contemporary of F. Rokotov, he is close to him in his interest in the inner world of a person, a psychological and intimate portrait.
Levitsky is an artist who has firmly stood on real ground and at the same time is sensitive to true poetry, capable of sublime impulses.
Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov (1735-1808)
In the mid — 1760s, when Antropov was still in the prime of his life, a painter who was strikingly unlike him or other contemporaries, F., was gaining fame.
Rokotov.
We donot know much about this artist, who comes from the family of serfs of Prince I. Repnin, who became one of the most refined and subtle painters in European art of the XVIII century.
Only in recent years has the dense veil that hid the circumstances of his life and work begun to dissipate
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857)
In the spring of 1827, Pushkin was portrayed by V. Tropinin.
The portrait was commissioned by the poet himself for his friend S. A. Sobolevsky, who, according to a contemporary, "wanted to preserve the image of the poet as he is, as he was more often."
Tropinin, in fact, could not create a different portrait: this is how he saw and perceived his great contemporary.
Tropinin did not compose sublime hymns and elegies, he spoke in a clear and clear colloquial language.
Only the comprehensive genius of Pushkin could merge the contrasts of modern history and Russian culture together, Kiprensky and Tropinin — each in their own way displayed one of the facets.
Mikhail Shibanov (year of birth unknown died after 1789)
Mikhail Shibanov, Russian painter.
From serfs.
Since 1783, "a free painter".
Portrait painter, the initiator of the peasant household genre in Russian art.
Sh. '
s paintings, created under the direct impression of nature, are distinguished by their concreteness in the interpretation of the plot, expressiveness and significance of almost portrait characteristics of the peasants.
XIX Russian artists
Agin Alexander Alekseevich (1817-1875)
Alexander Agin and his younger brother Vasily were the illegitimate sons of the cavalry officer A. P. Elagin, who could only give both his truncated surname.
In 1834, the brothers came to St. Petersburg to enroll in the Academy of Sciences, but only the eldest was accepted.
He studied in the class of historical painting with K. P. Bryullov, but did not become a painter: he was released in 1839 with the title of a drawing teacher, and he connected his creative fate with graphics.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
Aivazovsky was surprisingly able bodied.
He created about 6000 works.
Throughout the decades of the artist's long life, filled with tireless work, his work has not remained unchanged.
However, he was always attracted by the image of majestic natural phenomena; his seascapes are imbued with romance.
Altman Nathan Isaevich (1889-1970)
Born in the province and lost his father early, N. I. Altman achieved everything on his own and thanks to his talent.
He studied at the Odessa Art School (1902-07), but left it, not satisfied with teaching, and returned to Vinnytsia, where he began working independently.
At the end of 1910, he managed to go to Paris and stayed there for only eleven months, but the impressions he received were enough for him to complete his professional development and determine his path in art.
Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov (1889-1974)
Yu.
P. Annenkov spent his early childhood in remote Kamchatka, where his father, a former member of the Narodnaya Volya organization, was sent to settle.
In 1893, the family returned to St. Petersburg.
The Annenkovs ' dacha in Kuokkala, a place near St. Petersburg, was located not far from the estate of I. E. Repin.
Since childhood, surrounded by creative people, the future artist became interested in drawing early.
Arkhipov (Pyrikov) Abram Efimovich (1862-1930)
A. E. Arkhipov was born in the Ryazan region, in a peasant family, and it is no accident that the life of the Russian peasantry became the main theme of his work.
Since childhood, Arkhipov painted "everywhere, always, everywhere, wherever possible," as he later recalled.
The boy studied with visiting icon painters.
One of them, who turned out to be a free student of MUZHVZ, helped Arkhipov to prepare and enter this school.
Bakalovich Stepan Vladislavovich (1857-1936)
S. V. Bakalovich was born in the family of an artist.
My mother is a well known actress in Warsaw.
He received his initial art education from his father at the Warsaw Drawing School.
In 1876, Bakalovich came to St. Petersburg and entered the Academy of Sciences.
He studied brilliantly and in 1881 graduated from the Academy of Sciences with a large gold medal and the right to a pensioner's trip - for the painting "St. Sergius blesses Dmitry Donskoy for battle and lets two monks go with him".
Bakst (Rosenberg) Lev Samoilovich (1866-1924)
In order to enter the Academy of Sciences as a free listener, L. S. Bakst had to overcome the resistance of his father, a small merchant.
He studied for four years (1883-87), but became disillusioned with academic training and left the educational institution.
He began to paint independently, studied the technique of watercolors, earning a living by illustrating children's books and magazines.
In 1889, the artist exhibited his works for the first time, adopting a pseudonym - an abbreviated surname of his maternal grandmother (Baxter).
Bashkirtseva Maria Konstantinovna (1860-1884)
M. K. Bashkirtseva was born in a noble and rich family.
The girl was very sickly, and at the age of ten, her mother took her to Nice.
Since then, she has only come to Russia for a short time three times, living constantly abroad and traveling a lot in Europe.
In 1877, she began to attend the R. Julian Academy in Paris.
In 1879, she received a gold medal at the competition of student works and from that time on she regularly exhibited her paintings, which invariably received warm reviews from French newspapers and magazines.
Beggrov Alexander Karlovich (1841-1914)
Alexander Beggrov (1841-1914) was a Russian painter and watercolorist.
The son of the Russian lithographer K. P. Beggrov.
He discovered his talent for fine art as a child, but became a naval officer.
Since 1870, he studied with M. Klodt at the Academy of Fine Arts, but did not complete the course.
To continue his art education, he went to France, where in 1871-1874 he studied in Paris with A. Bogolyubov and L. J. Bonn.
During this period, he worked a lot from nature, painted views of Le Havre, Treport, Concarneau.
Benoit Alexander Nikolaevich (1870-1960)
A.V. Benois was born in the family of a famous architect and grew up in an atmosphere of reverence for art, but he did not receive an art education.
He studied at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University (1890-94), but at the same time he independently studied the history of art and was engaged in drawing and painting (mainly watercolor).
He did this so thoroughly that he managed to write a chapter on Russian art for the third volume of The History of Painting in the XIX Century by R. Muter, published in 1894.
He was immediately talked about as a talented art critic who turned over the established ideas about the development of Russian art.
Konstantin Fedorovich Bogaevsky (1872-1943)
He began drawing in early childhood, at the age of six he copied landscapes from old oleographs.
In Feodosia, Bogaevsky took lessons from the marine painter I. K. Aivazovsky, which consisted mainly in copying seascapes of the famous artist.
His teacher was also the artist Fessler, who taught the boy the basics of drawing.
The novice painter devoted a lot of time to plein air work, made sketches on the streets of the city, in its surroundings, on the market square.
The young artist also worked hard in the studio.
Bogolyubov Alexey Petrovich (1824-1896)
The grandson of A. Radishchev, he graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1841.
Already during these years, his passion for drawing manifested itself: the young man devoted all his free time to caricatures of his comrades and teachers.
After graduating from the Marine Corps with the rank of midshipman, Bogolyubov goes sailing, which gives him the opportunity to see foreign countries.
So, in 1847, he got to London, where he visited art galleries.
The paintings of English masters arouse great admiration in him.
Borisov Musatov Viktor Elpidiforovich (1870-1905)
He was born in Saratov.
When the boy was three years old, he became hunchbacked due to an accident.
The boy showed his extraordinary drawing abilities early.
In 1881, he entered the Saratov real school, but devoted most of his time to painting.
His first teacher was a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts V. Konovalov.
In 1890, he passed the exams at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, but then moved to St. Petersburg.
He became a free student of the Academy of Arts, and then began to attend the private studio of P. Chistyakov, who brought up I. Repin, O. Serov, M. Vrubel.
Braz Osip (Joseph) Emmanuilovich (1873-1936)
O. E. Braz was born and raised in Odessa.
He began to study drawing at the Odessa drawing school with K. K. Kostandi; in 1890-94 he continued his education in Munich, at the private school of the Hungarian artist Sh.
Holloshi.
In Munich, and then during a trip to France and Holland, he studied the works of old masters, got acquainted with modern European art.
Already an established artist, Braz in 1895 entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, in the studio of I. E. Repin.
Brodsky Isaac Israelevich (1883 (1884)-1939)
Brodsky was born in the family of a small merchant.
He studied at the Odessa Art School (1896-1902) with L. D. Iorini, K. K. Kostandi and G. A. Ladyzhensky, then continued his education at the Higher Art School at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1902-08), where he studied with Ya.F. Tsionglinsky and I. E. Repin.
In 1909-11, as a pensioner, he visited Germany, France, Italy, Spain; in 1910-11, he lived on the island of Capri with A.M. Gorky.
Vasiliev Vladimir Alexandrovich (1895-)
In the motley string of years of distant childhood, one wonderful summer day remained especially vividly in the memory of Vladimir Alexandrovich Vasiliev.
"I consider this day to be crucial in my life as an artist.
I experienced for the first time then that feeling of special happiness, fullness of life, which so often seized me later, when I became an artist, in those moments when you are left alone with nature and always comprehend it with some new and joyful amazement.
Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848-1926)
Each of us knows and loves the heroes of Russian fairy tales and epics — the resourceful and brave Ivanushka, the sad princess Nesmeyana, courageous and kind heroes, the prophetic Oleg from Pushkin's "Song" - since childhood.
This love is instilled in us not only by books, but also by wonderful paintings by the artist storyteller Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov.
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842-1904)
During his stay in Munich, he created a series of paintings on the themes of the Turkestan war (1869-73), among them such famous ones as "Apotheosis of War" (1871-72), "Forgotten" (1871), "Mortally Wounded" (1873), etc.
Some of the paintings are combined into the suite "Barbarians", where Vereshchagin showed the harsh face of war with great force.
The last painting of the suite — "The Apotheosis of War" - depicting a pile of skulls, is dedicated by the artist to "all the great conquerors, past, present and future".
Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910)
Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel's parents predicted a career as a lawyer.
But the passion for art in this born painter was so strong that as an adult, after graduating from university, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts.
Together with Serov, he studied with the best teacher of that time — P. P. Chistyakov, together with Serov, he dreamed of a new art.
But Vrubel did not have to graduate from the Academy.
In 1884, the famous art historian A.V. Prakhov came to St. Petersburg from Kiev and, on the advice of Chistyakov, took Vrubel to Kiev, entrusting him with the restoration of old frescoes and new paintings in the Cyril Church.
The artist stayed in Kiev for five years.
This was the first high rise of his creativity.
Ge Nikolai Nikolaevich (1831-1894)
Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge, an outstanding Russian historical painter and portrait painter.
He studied at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1850-57) with P. Vasin.
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, he was sent to Italy as a boarder.
In search of a plot for a large picture, he created many sketches on the themes of antiquity and the Middle Ages ("The Death of Virginia", "The Love of a Vestal", "The Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple", etc.).
From the first independent steps in art, Ge gravitated to images of ethical and philosophical significance.
Traditional academic subjects were about they were painted by the young painter with expression, and the influence of K. Bryullov was felt in this.
Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka (1899-1969)
Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka, a famous Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
Deineka was born in Kursk.
He studied at the Kharkiv Art School with M. Pestrikov (1915-17), in VKhUTEMAS with I. Nivinsky and V. Favorsky (1920-25).
He was a founding member of the Society of Machine Tool Makers (OST) in 1925-27.
He was a member of the association "October" (1928-30).
In the mid 20s, the first paintings of the artist appeared: "Football" (1924), "In the drift", "Before descending into the mine" (1926), "Textile Workers" (1927), which expressed the characteristic features of the work of the masters of the Society of Easel Artists, the Ostovites considered everything that distinguished the new Russia from "yesterday": the rise of industry, the dynamics of social restructuring, the birth of a new social psychology.
Dubovsky Nikolai Nikanorovich (1859-1918)
During his studies at the Kiev military Gymnasium, Dubovskaya did not leave his occupation, the drawing lesson became his favorite subject.
On the advice of the director of the gymnasium, the parents sent the talented young man to St. Petersburg to the Academy of Fine Arts, where from 1877 he studied with Professor of landscape painting M. K. Klodt.
During his studies at the Dubovskaya Academy, he received four gold medals.
But the young artist was not satisfied with the academic routine, he sought freedom and lively communication with nature, and therefore left the Academy in 1881
Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Vasily V. Kandinsky, an outstanding Russian artist, a theorist of "non objective art".
He was born in Moscow in the family of a merchant of the first guild.
In 1871, the family moved to Odessa, where his father ran a tea factory.
He studied in Odessa at the gymnasium (1876-85), then at the Law Faculty of Moscow University (1886-92).
By the age of thirty (1896), he undertook several trips around the empire related to his scientific interests (in the field of law, political economy, ethnography), published in various publications, was ready to take a chair in Dorpat.
However, having changed his intentions, he decided to devote himself to painting.
Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin (1861-193)
Konstantin Korovin, a famous Russian painter and theater artist.
He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture — at the architectural department (1875), and then (from 1876) at the painting department with I. Pryanishnikov, V., Perov, L. Savrasov!
and V. Polenov.
For several months (1882-83) he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
He completed his art education at the School (1883-1886).
Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich (1837-1887)
Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich, an outstanding Russian painter and progressive art figure.
He was born in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh province, in a poor middle class family.
He received his initial knowledge at the district school.
I have been engaged in drawing since childhood on my own.
At the age of sixteen, he joined a retoucher for a Kharkiv photographer
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1842-1910)
A. I. Kuindzhi was the son of a poor Greek shoemaker from Mariupol, he was orphaned early, and he had to achieve everything in life himself.
In the early 1860s, his passion for drawing led him to St. Petersburg, where he twice tried to enter the Academy of Arts, but without success.
He did not have enough training, because he acquired all his painting experience as a retoucher in a photographic workshop.
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (1878-1927)
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev, an outstanding Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, theater artist, sculptor.
He was born in Astrakhan, his childhood, adolescence and youth were spent on the Volga shores.
Later, being already a famous painter, he lived for a long time in a village near Kineshma, built a workshop there, which he called "terem".
On the Volga, Kustodiev grew up and matured as an artist.
He dedicated many of his canvases to the Volga and the Volzhans.
Russian Russian land gave him a deep knowledge of Russian life and folk life, a love for noisy crowded fairs, festivals, booths, those bright and joyful colors that entered with him into Russian painting.
Lev Feliksovich Lagorio (1827-1905)
Lev Feliksovich Lagorio is a Russian landscape painter, marine painter.
He was born in the family of the Neapolitan consul in Feodosia.
His teacher was I. K. Aivazovsky.
Since 1843, Lagorio studied in St. Petersburg at the Academy of Arts under A. I. Sauerweid and M. N. Vorobyov.
Levitan Isaac Ilyich (1861-1900)
He was born in the town of Kibarta in Lithuania in the family of a railway employee.
He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1873-74) with A. Savrasov and V. Polenov.
Since 1884, he performed at exhibitions of the Association of Peredvizhniki; since 1891 a member of the Association.
Since 1898 academician of landscape painting.
Levitan created many wonderful, heartfelt images of Russian nature.
In his work, the lyrical principle that is inherent in the painting of his teacher and mentor A. Savrasov was developed.
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878-1935)
The name of Kazimir Malevich quickly found its rightful place in the history of Russian art, as soon as the official Soviet ideology collapsed.
This happened all the more easily because the great artist has long won a lasting fame outside the Fatherland.
The bibliography dedicated to him should be published in a separate edition, and nine tenths of it consists of books and articles in foreign languages: numerous studies in Russian have been published since the late 1980s, when the first large exhibition of Malevich took place in his homeland after decades of silence and abuse.
Malyutin Sergey Vasilyevich (1859-1937)
The future artist was born on September 22, 1859 in a Moscow merchant family.
Left an orphan for three years, he was brought up in the house of an aunt, the wife of a minor official.
The boy was sent to a commercial school, and then to accounting courses, after which he was assigned to serve as an office clerk in Voronezh.
His artistic inclinations appeared early in his life.
But the surrounding environment did not contribute much to their development.
It was only at the end of the 1870s, when he got to the mobile exhibition that opened in Voronezh, Malyutin saw genuine painting for the first time.
Long standing vague dreams have become concrete: the decision has come, despite all the difficulties, to become an artist.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862-1942)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov, an outstanding Russian Soviet artist.
He was born in Ufa in a merchant family.
He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1877-86) and at the Academy of Arts under V. Perov, I. Pryanishnikov and P. Chistyakov.
Initially, he tried himself in the everyday genre: "The Victim of friends" (1881), "Exam in a rural school" (1884).
In 1882, he married Maria Martynova, who died in 1885 from childbirth.
This tragedy greatly influenced all the further work of the artist.
He abandoned lightweight genres and turned to historical and religious topics.
Vasily Grigoryevich Perov (1834-1882)
One of the initiators of realistic painting of the 60s was Vasily Grigoryevich Perov, a follower of Fedotov's accusatory tendencies.
In the unrest and anxiety of Russian life, he finds the ground for his creativity, the breeding ground without which an artist cannot exist.
Perov boldly and openly rushes into battle, denouncing the falseness and hypocrisy of church rites ("Rural procession at Easter", 1861), parasitism and depravity of priests and monks ("Tea Party in Mytishchi", 1862; both in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow).
Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844-1927)
He was born in St. Petersburg in an artistic family.
His mother is an artist, his father is a famous archaeologist and bibliographer, a member of the Academy of Sciences, an expert and an art lover.
As a child, he studied music.
He graduated from the gymnasium in Petrozavodsk and entered the Academy of Arts (1863) in the class of historical painting and at the same time at the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University.
However, he did not give up music lessons and for some time sang in the Academic Choir.
During his studies, he visited Germany and France, admiring R. Wagner and J. Offenbach.
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844-1933)
Ilya Yefimovich Repin, an outstanding Russian artist, a representative of democratic realism.
He was born in Chuguev, Kharkiv province, in the family of a military settler.
At the age of thirteen, he began studying painting in Chuguev with the artist N. Bunakov.
He worked in icon painting artels.
In 1863 he came to St. Petersburg and entered the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts.
I met with I. Kramsky, who became a mentor of the young artist for many years.
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (1874-1947)
Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich, an outstanding Russian artist, art critic, archaeologist and public figure.
He was born in St. Petersburg.
He studied in St. Petersburg at the gymnasium of Mey (1883-93).
He took drawing lessons from M. Mikeshin.
He graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University (1893-96) and the painting department of the Academy of Arts (1893-97) in the class of A. Kuindzhi.
The latter sought to develop in his students a sense of decorative color.
Without refusing to work from nature, he insisted that the paintings be painted from memory.
The artist had to carry out the idea of the picture.
Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky (1844-1905)
Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky, Russian painter and genre painter.
He was born in Taganrog in the family of a military doctor.
In 1862 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, but due to insufficient preparation he was forced to leave and after two years of intensive independent work in 1864 he again entered the Academy.
In 1871, he received a small gold medal for the painting "Cain and Abel".
Already in his academic years, he was close to the Art Artel of I. Kramskoy, and pos Later, he joined the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions and was exhibited at the 2nd traveling exhibition (1873).
This aroused the dissatisfaction of the Academy administration, which, finding fault with the first occasion that came along (the exam was not passed on time due to marriage), expelled Savitsky from the Academy (1873).
Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov (1830-1890)
Russian Russian art is impossible to imagine without some paintings, just as it is impossible to imagine Russian literature without Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin", and it does not have to be a large and complex work.
Such a genuine pearl of Russian landscape painting was a small modest painting by Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897) "The Rooks have arrived".
It appeared at the first exhibition of the Association of Peredvizhniki in 1871.
Serov Valentin Alexandrovich (1865-1911)
Even during the life of V. A. Serov, and even more so after his death, art historians and artists argued — who is Serov: the last painter of the old school of the XIX century or a representative of the new art?
The most correct answer to this question would be: both.
Serov is traditional; in the history of Russian painting, he could be called the son of Repin.
But after all, the true continuers of traditions do not stop on the spot, but go ahead and search.
Serov was looking for more than others.
He did not know the feeling of satisfaction.
He was on the road all the time.
Therefore, he became the artist who organically combined the art of the XIX and XX centuries.
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (1848-1916)
Vasily Surikov, an outstanding Russian historical painter and genre painter.
"The ideals of historical types were brought up in me by Siberia."
He was born in Krasnoyarsk in the family of a Cossack officer.
His father, a passionate music lover, played the guitar superbly and was considered the best singer in Krasnoyarsk.
My mother was an excellent embroiderer.
Pavel Andreevich Fedotov (1815-1852)
Pavel Andreevich Fedotov was born in Moscow on June 22, 1815.
My father served as an official and went to work every morning.
The Fedotov family was large, they did not live richly, but they did not feel any special need.
The neighbors around were simple people — small officials, retired military men, poor merchants.
Pavlusha Fedotov was especially friendly with the sons of Captain Golovachev, who lived opposite, and the little sister, "sharp eyed Lyubochka", as he called her, was friends with Katenka Golovacheva, her age.
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898)
Enter the hall of the Tretyakov Gallery, where the paintings of Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin hang, and it will seem to you as if the moist breath of the forest, the fresh wind of the fields blew, it became sunnier and brighter.
In Shishkin's paintings, we see the early morning in the forest after a night storm, then the endless expanses of fields with a path running away to the horizon, then the mysterious twilight of the forest thicket.
Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon (1875-1958)
Fate favored K. F. Yuon in every possible way.
He lived a long life.
He had an extremely happy marriage.
The people around him loved him.
He had never had to struggle with need.
Success came to him very early and always accompanied him.
After the revolution, honors, high awards, titles, leadership positions seemed to be looking for him themselves.
There were fewer hardships - this was a quarrel for several years with his father (a bank employee) because of Huon's marriage to a peasant woman and the early death of one of his sons.
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Akimov Nikolai Pavlovich (1901-1968)
N. P. Akimov came to St. Petersburg very young, and almost all of his life was firmly connected with this city.
He studied at the studio of S. M. Seidenberg (1915-18), a few years later he entered the Academy of Sciences, but left it without finishing his studies.
I was engaged in book graphics and managed to create a name for myself, n
