Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky | |
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Николай Богданов-Бельский | |
Higher Art School (1899) | |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Peredvizhniki |
Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky (Russian: Николай Петрович Богданов-Бельский; 20 December [O.S. 8 December] 1868 – 19 February 1945)[1] was a Russian painter.
Life
Bogdanov was born in the village of
Bogdanov-Belsky was active in St. Petersburg. After 1921, he worked exclusively in Riga, Latvia. He became a member of several prominent societies in including the Peredvizhniki from 1895, and the Arkhip Kuindzhi Society from 1909 (of which he was a founding member and chairman from 1913 to 1918).
Bogdanov-Belsky painted mostly genre paintings, especially of the education of peasant children, portraits, and impressionistic landscapes studies. He became pedagogue and academician in 1903. He was an active Member of the Academy of Arts in 1914. Realist art was strongly disfavored by the Soviet Union, compelling the artist to relocate to Riga in 1921. Due to illness, he was taken to a Berlin clinic and was killed on February 19, 1945 as a result of Allied bombing. He was buried at the Berlin-Tegel Russian Orthodox Cemetery.[2]
He was a member of the Russian Fraternitas Arctica in Riga.
Selected paintings
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Nikolay Felixovich Yusupov, 1911
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Reading a letter, 1892
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Mental Arithmetic, in the Rachinsky School, 1895
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Sunday reading in a village school, 1895
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At the School Doors, 1897
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-5-85555-018-4.
- ^ Перевышко, Анатолий. Николай Петрович Богданов-Бельский (in Russian). Петербургский художник. Retrieved 9 June 2012.