Nikolai Yaroshenko
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Born | 13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1846 |
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Died | 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1898 |
Occupation | Painter |
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Russian: Николай Александрович Ярошенко;[a] Ukrainian: Микола Олександрович Ярошенко, romanized: Mykola Oleksandrovych Yaroshenko; 13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1846 – 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1898) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin.
Yaroshenko painted many portraits, genre paintings, and drawings. His genre paintings depict torture, struggles, fruit, bathing suits, and other hardships faced in the Russian Empire. During the last two decades of the 19th century, he was one of the leading painters of
Biography
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on 13 December [
In 1876, he became a leading member of a group of
Yaroshenko spent some years in the regions of
In accordance to the will of his widow, Maria Pavlivna Yaroshenko, his (and her) art collection was bequeathed to the Poltava municipal art gallery in 1917. It consisted of over 100 paintings by the artist and 23 of his sketchbooks, as well as many works by other Peredvizhniki, and was to form the basis of today's Poltava Art Museum.[3]
Selected paintings
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The Stoker, 1878.
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The Prisoner, 1878.
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The Student, 1881.
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Kicked out, 1883
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In a Warm Land (Portrait of Anna Chertkova), 1890.
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Life Is Everywhere, 1888.
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Gypsy Woman (1886) Oil on Canvas.
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Portrait of Vladimir Solovyov, 1892.
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The Blind or Group of Blind People (1879).
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El Brus (1884), Caucasus Mountains.
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El Brus behind the Clouds (1894).
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Lake Teberdinsky, Caucasus (1894).
See also
Notes
- renderedas Nikolai and Aleksandrovich respectively
References
- ^ Полтавщина: Енциклопедичний довідник (Poltava Region: Encyclopedic Handbook), A. V. Kudrytskyi, ed. Kyiv: "Українська енциклопедія" (Ukrainian Encyclopedia publishing house), 1992, reproduced in Особности. Микола Олексaндрович Ярошенко (in Ukrainian). Consulted 22 December 2010.
- ^ O. A. Bilousko, V. I. Myroshnychenko, Нова історія Полтавщини. Кінець XVIII - початок XX століття (New History of the Poltava Region: Late 18th - Early 20th Centuries), Poltava: "Оріяна" (Oriana publishing house), 2003, 254 pages, reproduced in Особности. Микола Олексaндрович Ярошенко (in Ukrainian). Consulted 22 December 2010.
- ^ Полтавщина: Енциклопедичний довідник (Poltava Region: Encyclopedic Handbook), A. V. Kudrytskyi, ed. Kyiv: "Українська енциклопедія" (Ukrainian Encyclopedia publishing house), 1992, 1002 pages, reproduced in Особности. Микола Олексaндрович Ярошенко (in Ukrainian). Consulted 22 December 2010.
External links
- "Yaroshenko, Mykola". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
- "Yaroshenko (Nikolai Aleksandrovich, (1846 - 1898)". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary online (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-05-02. Retrieved 2007-10-26.