Ivan Ivanovich Sokolov

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Ivan Sokolov 1861

Ivan Ivanovich Sokolov ( Russian Иван Иванович Соколов ; born May 29 jul. / 10. June  1823 greg. In Astrakhan , government Astrakhan , Russian Empire ; † October 30 jul. / 12. November  1910 greg. In Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire) was a Russian genre and portrait painter .

Life

Ivan Sokolov was born in Astrakhan because his father, who came from the village of Hanshivka in Kharkov Governorate (now in Kobeljaky Raion of the Ukrainian Poltava Oblast ), was stationed in the garrison there as a soldier of the Russian Army . Sokolov became a student at the Moscow Aristocratic Institute and in 1846 switched to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts without a degree , where he studied with Alexei Tarasovich Markov and met the Ukrainian painter and poet Taras Shevchenko .

From 1849 he traveled twice to the Caucasus, where he drew and painted watercolors. Two years later he continued his studies at the art academy and in 1852 he was awarded a small silver medal for the painting "Selling Slaves on the Eastern Shore of the Black Sea". From the summer of 1853 he stayed in the Ukraine for a long time, where he helped his father's sick sister on her property in Hanschiwka. In 1854 he finally graduated from the art academy, where he shortly afterwards received the great silver medal of the art academy. After graduating, his paintings became popular and bought by the imperial family, among others, which allowed him to travel within Russia, Constantinople, Germany, France and Spain. In 1856 he created the painting "The Night of Ivan Kupala ". In 1857 he was awarded the academic degree for the painting "Transcaucasian Gypsies". In May 1858, Sokolov traveled again to Ukraine to make sketches for future paintings. Together with his friend Taras Shevchenko, he visited the property of Mychajlo Maxymowytsch , the first rector of Kiev's St. Vladimir University, several times .

In 1864 Sokolov was promoted to the rank of professor at the Petersburg Academy of Arts. In the late 1860s, after the death of his aunt, he settled entirely in Ukraine. Sokolov spent the last years of his life in Kharkiv, where he became vice-president of the Kharkov Society of Fine Arts . He died in Kharkiv at the age of 87.

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In addition to his paintings in oil colors, he created watercolors. All of his works, which have different originality, feeling and taste of execution, were bought by painting lovers before they were finished. Today his works can be found in museums in Kharkiv and Uzhhorod , the National Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.

  • "Portrait of Ivan Sokolow"; Jakow Fjodorowitsch Kapkow 1849, Hermitage

  • "The Night of Ivan Kupala", Ivan Solokow 1856

  • "Wedding", Ivan Solokow 1860; Sumy Art Museum

  • “Beside the tavern”, Iwan Solokow 1864

Web links

Commons : Iwan Iwanowitsch Sokolow  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ivan Sokolow on uahistory.com ; accessed on May 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Iwan Sokolow in the Great Biographical Encyclopedia (2009); accessed on May 17, 2018 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Sokolow, Ivan Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соколов, Иван Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Astrakhan , Astrakhan Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1910
Place of death Kharkov , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire