Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov - Winter in Russia
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Oil on panel. 25 x 45 cm (frame 50 x 70 cm).
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov was a famous Russian painter and sailor. Grandson of the writer A.N. Radishchev. He graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts with a gold medal, and was appointed artist of the naval headquarters. After leaving naval service, he traveled in Europe for 7 years, training in the studios of the greatest artists in Paris, Geneva and Düsseldorf.
He painted at the behest of Emperor Nicholas I, whom he accompanied as painter on a trip to Russia by the future Emperor Alexander III.
He was awarded the title of academician and professor of painting, and engaged in charity work on behalf of widows and orphans.
By order of Emperor Alexander II, he began the story in the paintings of Peter the Great's fleet.
In the Orthodox Church in Paris, he painted several frescoes. In Russia, he founded an art school and the A.N. Radishchev Museum, to which he bequeathed almost all his works.
Through Bogolyubov's mediation received favorable orders from Kramskoy, Savitsky, Polenov. In recent years, he lived in Paris, occasionally visiting Russia. In the 1870s, a galaxy of young artists graduating from the Academy of Arts, including Repin, Polenov, Antakolsky, Savitsky, who had the opportunity to travel to Paris for an internship, took refuge in Bogolyubov's house, where he lived.
The artist died in Paris, and was buried in his homeland, St. Petersburg, next to his parents.
Being primarily a marine painter, A.P. Bogolyubov turned with particular feeling to the landscape genre of continental Russia. Scholars write of the closeness of his manner to the Barbizonnais, then to the Impressionists, and each time they note the particular immediacy and emotionality of his works and the indescribable originality of his artistic style.
The painting presented here is one of the outstanding examples of his work in the landscape genre, a kind of collective image of Russia.
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Weight | 6 kg |
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