Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (Template:Lang-ru; 16 March 1824 – 3 February 1896) was a Russian landscape and seascape painter.
Alexey Bogolyubov | |
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Алексей Боголюбов | |
Born | |
Died | November 7, 1896 | (aged 72)
Education | Member Academy of Arts (1858) Professor by rank (1861) Full Member Academy of Arts (1893) |
Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1853) |
Known for | Painting |
Style | landscape art |
Movement | Peredvizhniki[a] |
Awards |
Biography
Bogolyubov was born in the Pomeranie village of Novgorod Gubernia. His father was retired colonel Pyotr Gavriilovich Bogolyubov. Bogolyubov's maternal grandfather was the philosopher and social critic Alexander Radishchev.[2]
In 1841, Bogolyubov graduated from military school, serving in the Imperial Russian Navy and travelling with the fleet to many countries. In 1849, he started to attend classes of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he studied under Maxim Vorobiev. The young painter was greatly influenced by Ivan Ayvazovsky. In 1853, he finished the Academy with a major Gold medal. He retired as a navy officer and was appointed an artist to the Navy headquarters.
From 1854 to 1860, he travelled around Europe and worked prolifically. In Rome, he was acquainted with Alexander Ivanov, who convinced Bogolyubov to focus more on drawing. In Düsseldorf, Bogolyubov took classes from the painter Andreas Achenbach. In Paris, he admired the artists of the Barbizon School. French painters Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny were good friends and collaborators with Bogolyubov. He also painted the frescoes in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
Bogolyubov returned to Russia in 1860. He exhibited his works in the Academy and received the title of professor. For some time, he taught in the Academy. In the 1860s, he traveled along the Volga. His paintings lost all traces of Romanticism, replacing that element with staunch realism of the natural. In 1871 he was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts.
From 1870, he became close to the Wanderers art movement, participated in all their exhibitions. He became a member of their board. Much older than most of the other members of the movement, he had reservations on their social ideas. In 1873, Bogolyubov left the Academy in solidarity with his fellow Itinerants. He even tried to create an alternative Russian Academy of Arts in Rome.[2]
After 1873, Bogolyubov lived primarily in Paris, because of his heart condition. His house was like a Russian colony: frequent visitors included Ivan Turgenev, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Vasily Polenov, Mark Antokolski, Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin.[2]
In 1885, Bogolyubov opened an art museum in Saratov, the Radischev Art Museum, named after his grandfather. It was opened to the general public seven years earlier than the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and fifteen years earlier than the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.[3] The naming of the museum after the "first Russian revolutionary", Alexander Radishchev, was a direct challenge to the authorities: Bogolyubov had to endure a legal battle to get permission.
Bogolyubov died on 3 February 1896 in Paris. He left all his money and capital (around 200 thousand Russian rubles (approximately US$6 million)) to the museum and its painting school.[2] The school was opened after Bogolyubov's death and named Bogolyubov's Painting School (Боголюбовское Рисовальное Училище).[2] Among painters who attended Bogolyubov's School were such important modernist painters as Victor Borisov-Musatov, Alexei Karev and Pavel Kuznetsov.
Selection of works
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Sailing ships (1860)
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The Wreck of the Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky
Central Naval Museum -
The Wreck of the Livadia
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Shipwreck
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Attack by the boat Shutka of a Turkish steamship on the Danube on 14 May 1877
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Battle of Athos in 1807
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Battle of Sinop in 1853
Central Naval Museum -
Battle of Kronstadt in 1790
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Battle of Gangut in 1714
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Battle of Gangut
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Battle of Ösel in 1719
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Siege of Petropavlovsk in 1854
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Imperial steam yacht Aleksandria of 1852
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The theme of two lovers meeting at sunset on the seashore near a pulwar.
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Coastal view
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The Rainbow
Radishchev Art Museum
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View of Moscow from the house of G. I. Hludov [ru], 1878.
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Moscow. View of Golitsyn Hospital and Neskuchnoye in 1879.
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Kremlin illumination in 1883
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Evening in Moscow
Radishchev Art Museum -
View of Moscow from Babiy Gorodok, 1880s
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Kizichesky Monastery, 1861
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Kazan in 1862
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Petersburg at sunset 1850
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Sledging on the Neva (Detail)
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Bolshaya Neva. The painting in 1872.
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View of Smolny from Bolshaya Okhta, 1851
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Smolny as seen from Okhta, 1870s
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View to Saint Michael's Castle in Petersburg from Lebiazhy Canal, 1880s
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Opening of the Saint Petersburg Sea Canal in 1886
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Fire in Kronstadt at Night, c. 1876
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Easter procession in Yaroslavl, 1863
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Baku. Street at noon (1861)
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Baku Promenade and its Maiden Tower
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Baku, 1861
Radishchev Art Museum -
Kiev. The Palace Garden
Radishchev Art Museum -
Nizhny Novgorod. Lower Bazaar (1878).
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Kuzminki (estate of Prince Golitsyn), 1903
Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts -
Ipatios Monastery near Kostroma, 1861
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Ablyazovo, 1887
Radishchev Art Museum -
Ablyazovo. Threshing, 1887
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Finland
Radishchev Art Museum -
The Decembrists' exile to Finland, 1854
Radishchev Art Museum
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Venice at night, 1850s
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Venice
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Venice, 1850
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Palermo, 1850s
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Capri, 1856
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A View of Naples, 1851
Radishchev Art Museum -
A View of Alassio, 1880
Radishchev Art Museum -
Sorrento, 1850s
Radishchev Art Museum
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Mosque in Constantinople (1850s)
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Sinop, Ottoman Turkey, 1856
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Normandy, 1870.
Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts -
Normandy town, 1879
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Veules-les-Roses, Normandy, French Republic, 1880
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Moonlight at Pornic
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Pine Grove in Pornic, 1867
Radishchev Art Museum -
Storm in Menton, 1851
Radishchev Art Museum -
Pine Forest near Menton, 1881
Radishchev Art Museum -
Scenery outside Paris with woman and animals
Finnish National Gallery -
Scenery outside Paris
Finnish National Gallery -
Toulon, 1880
Radishchev Art Museum -
Turckheim, 1884
Radishchev Art Museum -
Port of Rouen, c. 1889
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Le Havre, 1893
Radishchev Art Museum -
Bois de Boulogne
Radishchev Art Museum -
Nice
Radishchev Art Museum -
Nogent-sur-Marne. After the Rain. 1886
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Lake Geneva (France, Switzerland)
Radishchev Art Museum
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Fredensborg Palace of 1867
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An alley in the park. Liechtenstein. 1889.
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Franzensbad, 1873
Radishchev Art Museum
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Antwerp, 1854
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Amsterdam, 1885
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On the Tamina River, 1865
Radishchev Art Museum
Footnotes
- ^ Ilyina, I.A.; Devyataykina, N.I. (2019). "A.P. Bogolyubov and Association of travelling art exhibitions: features of interactions and their importance for development of the Russian landscape painting school". Культурная жизнь Юга России. Теория и история искусства. 1 (72). Saratov: 16.
- ^ a b c d e Alexey Bogolyubov (in Russian) article
- ^ Bogolyubov page on the site of Saratov Radischev Museum (in Russian)
- ^ Posokhina, Marina V. (2023). "A. Bogolyubov and I. Aivazovsky. An issue of creative and personal relationships". RSUH Bulletin. "Philosophy. Sociology. Art Studies" (2). Saint Petersburg: 131–132. doi:10.28995/2073-6401-2023-2-127-140.
References
- Bogoliubov. by M. I. Andronnikova. Moscow. 1962
External links
- Alexey Bogolyubov Notes of an Sailor-Artist Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)