17 October 2016 03:01:03 Aivazovskiy Ivan (1817-1900) - Brief Biography
Ivan Aivazovskiy (1817-1900), also known as Haivazovskiy [Hajvazovskij], is the most interesting phenomenon of 19th century art. He gained international fame at the age of 25, was elected a member to five European Academies and was awarded the medal of the French Legion of Honor. Delacroix referred to him in reverence and Turner called him a genius.
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08 November 2016 01:37:39 Dubovskoy Nikolay (1859-1918) - Brief Biography
Dubovskoy Nikolay was born in Novocherkassk in 1859. Died in Petrograd in 1918. Russian landscape painter. Initially studied at the Kiev Military High School, then at the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1877-1881) under Mikhail Klodt. Dubovskoy left the Academy without completing the course.
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16 November 2016 02:19:41 Kandinskiy Vasiliy (1866-1944) - Brief Biography
Vasiliy Kandinskiy was born in Moscow into a merchant family in 1866. The family moved to Odessa in 1871, where his parents soon divorced. The boy was looked after by his aunt. In Odessa Kandinskiy studied in a classical gymnasium and had private lessons in music, drawing and painting. In 1886 he returned to Moscow to begin studying law and economics at the Moscow University. While a student, in 1889, he was commissioned by the "Society for Natural Science, Ethnography and Anthropology" to go with the research expedition to Vologda city. The strong folk art of northern Russia had the long lasting impression on him, and the results of his trip made an impression on the Society, which chose him their member.
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25 November 2016 03:20:37 Lagorio Lev (1826-1905) - Brief Biography
Lev Feliksovich Lagorio was born in Feodosia in 1826. Studied at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts where landscape painters M.N. Vorobyov and B.P. Villeval'de were his teachers.
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26 November 2016 21:34:02 Levitan Isaak (1860-1900) - Brief Biography
Isaak Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900) was artist - painter, landscape painter, master of a lyrical landscape; teacher at the the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; representative of realistic school.
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13 January 2017 03:37:18 Repin Ilya (1844-1930) - Brief Biography
He has connected strong tradition of realism of 19 centuries to innovations of a boundary of centuries.
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16 January 2017 03:50:29 Shishkin Ivan (1832-1898) - Brief Biography
He was Russian painter and graphic artist. In epic images he has opened beauty, power and riches of Russian nature. The master of lithograph and etching.
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18 October 2016 05:19:47 Adolskiy Grigoriy - Brief Biography
Gregoriy Adolskiy was the Moscow painter. Worked at the courts of the Russian tsar Peter the First, the tsarinas Anna Ioanovna and Elizaveta Petrovna.
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18 October 2016 05:26:08 Adolskiy Ivan (1686-1758) - Brief Biography
Adolskiy (Odolskiy) Ivan Grigoryevich (1686-1758). Russian portraitist.
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18 October 2016 05:52:29 Afanasyev Afanasiy (1758-appr.1800) - Brief Biography
Afanasiy Afanasyevich Afanasyev was born in 1758.
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18 October 2016 06:14:05 Afanasyev Alexander - Brief Biography
Alexander Gavrilovich Afanasyev was the engraver on brass.
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18 October 2016 06:27:24 Afanasyev Alexey (1850-1930) - Brief Biography
Alexey Fedorovich Afanasyev was born in 1850.
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18 October 2016 17:13:16 Afanasyev Konstantin (1793-1857) - Brief Biography
Konstantin Yakovlevich Afanasyev was born in 1793.
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18 October 2016 17:40:32 Agin Alexander (1817-1870s) - Brief Biography
Agin Alexander was born in 1817.
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18 October 2016 17:55:44 Akimov Ivan (1755-1814) - Brief Biography
Ivan Akimovich Akimov (2 June 1754 - 27 May 1814) was the Russian Neoclassical painter who studied under Anton Losenko and then worked in The Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, capping off his career as its director in 1794-1800. Akimov may be considered the first art historian in Russia: in 1804 he published a series of biographies of Russian painters.
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18 October 2016 19:29:12 Alexandrov Ivan (1780-1822) - Brief Biography
Alexandrov Ivan Petrovich was born in 1780 in the family of serf belonged to the count N.P. Sheremetyev.
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18 October 2016 19:47:38 Alexandrovskiy Stepan (1842-1906) - Brief Biography
Alexandrovskiy Stepan Fedorovich was born in 1842. The painter, aquarellist and portraitist.
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20 October 2016 03:03:00 Alexeev Fedor (1753-1824) - Brief Biography
Fedor Yakovlevich Alexeev (born 1753 - died 1824). Russian landscape painter.
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21 October 2016 00:52:01 Alexeev Nikolay (1813-1880) - Brief Biography
Alexeev (Syromyanskiy) Nikolay Mikhailovich was born in 1813. The academician of the historical painting and creator of mosaics.
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21 October 2016 01:20:13 Altman Natan (1889-1970) - Brief Biography
Natan Isaevich Altman was born in Vinnitsa in 1889.
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21 October 2016 01:45:39 Andreev Nikolay (1889-1938) - Brief Biography
Born in Irkutsk in 1889. Died in the same city in 1938.
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21 October 2016 02:00:21 Antonelli Dmitriy (1791-1842) - Brief Biography
Antonelli Dmitriy Ivanovich (1791-1842) was the portrait and the historical painter.
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21 October 2016 02:13:45 Antropov Alexey (1716-1795) - Brief Biography
Alexey Antropov was born on the 17th March of 1716.
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21 October 2016 20:20:55 Argunov Ivan (1729-1802) - Brief Biography
Ivan Argunov was the serf of the count P.Sheremetyev, disciple of G.Grot, author of many portraits and religious paintings. Known as the teacher of the such painters as A.Losenko, K.Klovachevskiy, I.Sablukov and F.Rokotov who became famous later on.
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21 October 2016 21:59:48 Argunov Nikolay (1771- after 1829) - Brief Biography
Nikolay Argunov was born in 1771. His father was the famous painter Ivan Argunov. He was the serf of the count P.Sheremetyev as his farther. During his trips abroad P.Sheremetyev was taking the painter with him and Nikolay was able to perfect his skill. P.Sheremetyev granted him freedom later on.
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21 October 2016 21:20:32 Arhipov Abram (1862-1930) - Brief Biography
Abram Arhipov was born in the Egorovo village of the Ryazan region. Between the 1877-1883 and the 1886-1888 studied at The Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Between the 1984-1886 studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts.
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21 October 2016 22:03:31 Asknaziy Isaak (1856-1902) - Brief Biography
Asknaziy Isaak Lvovich was born in 1856. The historical painter.
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21 October 2016 22:29:54 Avilov Mikhail (1882-1954) - Brief Biography
Avilov Mikhail was born in 1882.
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21 October 2016 23:13:02 Bakst Lev (1866-1924) - Brief Biography
Artist, graphic artist, stage designer.
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22 October 2016 02:25:34 Basin Peter (1793-1877) - Brief Biography
Basin Peter (1793-1877) - honored professor of religious, historical and portrait painting.
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22 October 2016 03:08:35 Basmanov Pavel (1906-1993) - Brief Biography
Born in the 1906, village of Batalovo, Altai province in 1906. Died in Saint Petersburg in 1993. Basmanov was a graphic artist.
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24 October 2016 02:11:02 Bazhanov Petr (1851-1913) - Brief Biography
Peter Bazhanov - an outstanding Russian painter, master of portrait and seascape.
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