Ivan Soshenko

Bust of Ivan Soshenko by Mykola Shmatko

Portrait of Soshenko by Yakim Zablocky

Ivan Soshenko's grave in Korsun

Ivan Maksymowytsch Soschenko ( Ukrainian Іван Максимович Сошенко ; born June 2, ^jul. / 14. June  1807 ^greg. In Bohuslav , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire , † July 18 ^jul. / The thirtieth July  1876 ^greg. In Korsun , Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian painter and art teacher.

Life

At the age of 13, Ivan Soshenko came to work in the household of the icon painter Stepan Prewlozkyj ( Ukrainian Степан Степанович Превлоцький ). In 1823 he began to work independently as a painter and earned a good reputation as an icon painter. From 1834 to 1838 Soshenko studied at the Imperial Art Academy in Saint Petersburg . During his studies he created numerous genre and historical paintings, portraits and landscape paintings and copied works of classical art.

During his studies he met Taras Shevchenko in the summer garden of Saint Petersburg , whom he taught some basics of painting and whom he introduced to the artistic society of Saint Petersburg in 1835. Among other things, he introduced him to Jewhen Hrebinka , Wassili Andrejewitsch Schukowski , Karl Pawlowitsch Brjullow and Alexei Gawrilowitsch Wenezianow . In 1838 he helped Shevchenko, who was still a serf at the time , to acquire his freedom and to become a student at the Russian Academy of Arts. From autumn 1838 to January 1839 Soshenko lived with Shevchenko in the same apartment and they remained friends even after he moved from Saint Petersburg. At Shevchenko's funeral in May 1861, he accompanied his coffin in Kaniw .

After graduation, in 1839, due to his poor health, he switched to teaching at a grammar school in Nischyn , where he also copied pictures from the Potocki Gallery. From 1846 to 1856 he taught painting at a high school in Nemyriw . The future Shevchenko biographer Mychajlo Tschalyj also taught here , who moved to the Second Kiev High School in 1852 and invited him to teach there as well. In July 1856 he accepted the invitation and went as a teacher at the Second Gymnasium in Kiev, where he taught until the end of his life. One of his students there was the later famous landscape painter Volodymyr Orlovskyj .

During a trip to his homeland in Bohuslaw, he died at the age of 69 on the Ros near his birthplace. In 1876 the biography written by Mychailo Tschalyj ( Михайло Корнійович Чалий 1816–1907) was published in Kiev .

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Soshenko painted genre scenes, Ukrainian landscapes and icons. He loved to paint portraits of old people, but also created portraits of Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj , Ivan Masepa and Ivan Gonta, among others . His most famous works are probably his Cossack camp from 1846 and the watercolor Bandurist from 1847.

The largest collection of Soshenko's works (50 pieces) is in the National Art Museum of Ukraine . Other works are exhibited in the Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kiev and in the Shevchenko National Memorial near Kaniw .

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  Selling hay on the Dnepr, 1857

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  Portrait of Gudim-Levkovoї

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  The grandmother of Soshenko's biographer Mychailo Chalyj

Web links

Commons : Ivan Soshenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Ivan Soshenko on uk.rodovid.org ; accessed on January 14, 2017 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Entry on Ivan Soshenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Shevchenko biography on the website of the Shevchenko Museum in Toronto, Canada; accessed on January 14, 2017
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Article on Soshenko, Ivan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 14, 2017
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography of Ivan Soshenko on library.ck.ua ; accessed on January 14, 2017 (Ukrainian)
6. ^ Short biography Ivan Soshenko on the Kiev calendar ; accessed on January 14, 2017 (Ukrainian)
7. ↑ Mychajlo Tschalyj on uahistory.com ; accessed on May 18, 2018 (Ukrainian)
8. ↑ Article on Orlovsky, Volodymyr in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 14, 2016