Apollon Nikolajewitsch Mokritski

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Self-portrait Apollon Mokrizki, 1830s

Apollon Nikolayevich Mokrizki ( Russian Аполлон Николаевич Мокрицкий , Ukrainian Аполлон Миколайович Мокрицький Apollon Mykolajowytsch Mokryzkyj ; born July 31, jul. / 12. August  1810 greg. In Pyriatyn , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † February 24 jul. / 8. March  1870 greg. in Moscow , Russian Empire) was a Russian- Ukrainian portrait and landscape painter .

Life

Apollon Mokrizki was born in Pyriatyn, a small town in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Poltava . He studied painting at the grammar school in Nischyn with Kapiton Stepanowitsch Pavlov ( Капитон Степанович Павлов , 1792-1852) In 1830 he went to Saint Petersburg and studied there from September 1831 at the Imperial Art Academy among others with Alexei Venetsianow and Karl Brjullow . At the St. Petersburg Art Academy he befriended Taras Shevchenko and in 1838 took an active part in his ransom from serfdom.

From 1840 on, Mokrizki first worked in the Ukraine and went to Italy in 1841. From 1849 he was a professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture . His students include Konstantin Makowski , Wassili Perow , Illarion Prjanischnikow and Iwan Schischkin . He died of pneumonia in Moscow at the age of 59.

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His paintings are now in private collections and well-known museums - including the National Taras Shevchenko Museum and the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev , the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg and other art museums in the Russian Federation.

Web links

Commons : Apollon Mokrizki  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on Apollon Mokryzkyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. Student of Geniuses, Teacher of Geniuses Article on Apollon Mokrizki on uahistory.com ; accessed on April 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. Entry on Apollon Mokrizki on russia.artgalleru.ru ; accessed on April 21, 2018 (Russian)
  4. Kurzbiografie Apollon Mokryzkyj on the website of the Taras Shevchenko National Museum ; accessed on April 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. http://museum.net.ua/skarbi-muzeiv-ukraini/portret-druzhini/