Volodymyr Orlovskyi

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Volodymyr Orlovskyi
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Володимир Донатович Орловський
Transl. : Volodymyr Donatovyč Orlovs'kyj
Transcr. : Volodymyr Donatowytsch Orlowskyj
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Владимир Донатович Орловский
Transl .: Vladimir Donatovič Orlovsky
Transcr .: Vladimir Donatowitsch Orlowski

Volodymyr Donatowytsch Orlowskyj (* January 20 . Jul / 1. February  1842 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 19th February 1914 in Genoa , Italy ) was a Ukrainian landscape and genre painter of realism .

Life

Volodymyr Orlowskyj was born in Kiev and received his first drawing lessons there between 1855 and 1860 at the grammar school from Ivan Soshenko , a friend of Taras Shevchenko . After Soshenko discovered Orlowskyi's talent, he came to the Imperial Art Academy in Saint Petersburg in 1861 on the recommendation of Shevchenko , where he studied until 1868.

During his studies he traveled to numerous places and areas in European Russia such as Moscow , Finland , Crimea , Kiev and the Taurian Governorate . In a competition organized for academy graduates, he received a gold medal for his three pictures of a Crimean landscape and won a three-year trip through Europe, which he used from 1869 to 1872 to study and visit museums in France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. In 1874 he became a member of the academy and from 1878 professor of landscape painting and a member of the council of the Academy of Arts. In 1886 he returned to Ukraine. From 1900 to 1902 he lived in Kiev and taught at the Kiev drawing school of Mykola Muraschko and in 1901 was a co-founder of the Kiev art school. He died in February 1914 at the age of 72 during a trip to Italy in Nervi , a district of Genoa. His body was transferred to Kiev and buried there in the Lukjanivska cemetery .

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Orlowskyj's pictures are very diverse both geographically (from Finland to the Crimea) and in terms of content (time of day, weather, season, etc.). He knew how to transfer the current state of nature onto canvas. At the end of the nineteenth century, his paintings were very popular and sold very well to the urban nobility and members of the imperial family. His contemporaries called him the “star of the first order” and the artist “at the forefront of a new real direction in Russian landscape painting”. He was a welcome guest at national and international exhibitions. Today his works are presented in many museums. His picture River Gnilitsa was in 2016 Sotheby's in London for 286,971 US $ sold.

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  • В Орловський Український пейзаж з вітряком.jpg
  • Крым пейзаж с речкой.jpg

Web links

Commons : Wolodymyr Orlowskyj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on Orlovsky, Volodymyr in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 13, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Biography of Volodymyr Orlowskyj on Russian antique gallery ; accessed on January 13, 2016 (Russian)
  3. ↑ a b biography of Volodymyr Orlowskyj in the Lexicon of Russian Painting; accessed on January 13, 2016 (Russian)
  4. ↑ a b Profile of Volodymyr Orlowskyj on the website of the Museum of Ukrainian Painting; accessed on January 13, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Pictures by Wolodymyr Orlowskyj on mutualart ; accessed on January 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Orlovskyj, Volodymyr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orlowskyj, Volodymyr Donatowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian landscape and genre painter of realism
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1914
Place of death Genoa , Italy