Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky

Visiting the poor (1874)

Farmer's wife with children

Vladimir Jegorowitsch Makowski ( Russian Владимир Егорович Маковский ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Egorovic Makovskij * January 26 ^jul. / 7. February 1846 ^greg. In Moscow , † 21 February 1920 in Petrograd ) was a Russian painter , educator and member of the cooperative the artist of the traveling exhibitions , the Peredwischniki . He was the younger brother of Konstantin Makowski .

From 1861 to 1865 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture . In 1873 he joined the Peredwischniki. He was soon to become one of the leading figures of this movement and closely linked his artistic activities to the development of this movement.

Later, however, from 1882 to 1894 , he taught at the College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture . He then headed the genre painting studio at the Petersburg Art Academy until 1916 . He died in 1920 in what was then Petrograd , now Saint Petersburg . In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin .

Wladimir Makowski mainly painted genre pictures. His works were based on profound and accurate observations of the life and circumstances of ordinary people. This made him one of the most important representatives of Russian genre painting in the second half of the 19th century.

In addition to genre painting, Makowski was primarily a portrait painter and was also active in the field of illustration of literary works. For example, he illustrated Nikolai Gogol's books .

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personal data
SURNAME	Makowski, Vladimir Egorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Маковский, Владимир Егорович (Russian); Makovskij, Vladimir Egorovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	February 21, 1920
Place of death	Petrograd