Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko

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Nikolai Yaroshenko
The prisoner
The Student (1881)
In the warm country (1890)

Nikolai Yaroshenko ( Russian Николай Александрович Ярошенко , Ukrainian Микола Олександрович Ярошенко / Mykola Yaroshenko Oleksandrowytsch ; born December 1, jul. / 13. December  1846 greg. In Poltava , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † June 25 . Jul / July 7  1898 greg. In Kislovodsk , Terek Oblast , Russian Empire) was a Russian painter .

Life

Nikolai Yaroshenko was the son of an officer in the Imperial Russian Army , who also embarked on a military career and retired as major general in 1892 . In addition to his military training, he studied from 1866 to 1867 at the drawing school of Iwan Kramskoi ; then he continued his studies at the Imperial Art Academy in Saint Petersburg until 1874 . From 1876 he was a leading member of the artistic movement of the Peredwischniki .

After completing his military career, he lived primarily in Saint Petersburg and later moved to Kislovodsk . He traveled widely through Russia , Europe , the Middle and the Middle East .

Yaroshenko mainly painted portraits as well as genre pictures and drawings . During the last two decades of the 19th century he was one of the leading exponents of Russian realism in painting. His works can be assigned to post- impressionism .

Works (selection)

  • The Prisoner (1878)
  • The Student (1881)
  • Dmitrij Mendeleev (1886)
  • In the warm country (1890)
  • The Elbrus in Clouds (1894)
  • Vladimir Soloviev , (1895)
  • Life is everywhere

Trivia

The picture Der Student von Jaroshenko became known to German readers of detective novels mainly because it appears on all cover pictures of the 'Fandorin' series by Boris Akunin . The Aufbau-Verlag assembles the young man depicted there in various historical pictures, such as B. The Letter by James Tissot . The fictional investigator Erast Petrowitsch Fandorin received the student's face in Germany.

Eponyms

The asteroid (4437) Yaroshenko , discovered on April 10, 1983, was named after Yaroshenko in 1991.

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Yaroshenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.akunin.net/index_de.html ( Memento from May 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 18458
personal data
SURNAME Yaroshenko, Nikolai Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ярошенко, Николай Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Poltava , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1898
Place of death Kislovodsk , Terek Oblast , Russian Empire