Sergei Vinogradov (painter)

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Sergei Vinogradov
Self-portrait (1922)
Born(1869-07-01)1 July 1869
Nekrasovskoye
Died5 February 1938(1938-02-05) (aged 68)
Riga
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1912)
Alma materMoscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Known forPainting
StyleImpressionism
MovementPeredvizhniki

Sergei Arsenievich Vinogradov (Russian: Сергей Арсеньевич Виноградов; 1869–1938) was a Russian-Soviet

Impressionist painter; known for landscapes, genre scenes and interiors
.

Biography

His father was a rural priest.[1] From 1880 to 1889, he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Illarion Pryanishnikov, Vladimir Makovsky and Vasily Polenov, who had a major influence on his style. In 1888, he was awarded the title of "Artist". The following year, he transferred to the Imperial Academy of Arts; studying with Bogdan Willewalde and Carl Wenig.[2]

War Poster from 1914, encouraging people to support wounded soldiers

After graduating he went to

Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry (a position he would hold until 1913).[2] Two years later, he began exhibiting with the Peredvizhniki. In 1903, he became one of the founders of the "Union of Russian Artists". He was named an "Academician" in 1912 and became a member of the Academy in 1916.[2]

During

Bolshevik Revolution
.

In 1923, he helped organize a travelling exhibition of Russian art and accompanied the exhibition to its first showing in New York. Upon his return, he settled in Riga, where he initially taught at the studios of

Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, then established his own private school.[1]

Although he concentrated on landscapes at that time, he also worked in other genres; notably a series of portraits depicting the priests at

Segodnya. He died of pneumonia in 1938.[1]

Selected paintings

  • Young Woman Reading
    Young Woman Reading
  • Going to Work
    Going to Work
  • Village boys
    Village boys
  • Waiting for the Ferry
    Waiting for the Ferry
  • Village Girls
    Village Girls

References

  1. ^ a b c d Brief biography @ RusArtNet.
  2. ^ a b c Brief biography @ Russian Paintings,

Further reading

  • Nikolai Stankevich, Сергей Виноградов, Искусство. Ленинградское отделение, 1971.

External links

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