Born February 7, Vladimir Makovsky
 

Vladimir Makovsky

artist Peredvizhnik
February 7, 1846 - February 21, 1920

Vladimir E. Makovsky was born (January 26) February 7, 1846 in Moscow, the son of an eminent art EI Makovsky, one of the founders of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

As a boy, Vladimir studied painting under the guidance of VA Tropinin. In 1861 he entered the college founded by his father. In 1870, made among the founders of the "Association of the Wanderers."

Genre paintings of Vladimir Makovsky are among the most typical, textbook examples of art, "Wanderers."

Over time, subtle psychological mise en scenes Makovsky stood out more and more distinct theme of "the downtrodden" ("Visiting the Poor", 1874, Tretyakov Gallery).

At the same time all are free, impressionistic brush and became his finer skills of "director".

In 1893, Makovsky was elected professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, and in this regard, he moved to St. Petersburg. A number of his works he dedicated to "new people" have taken the path of struggle against the existing order ("Party," "Condemned," "Justified," "Interrogation of a revolutionary").

The most social of his shocking things sometimes banned by the censor (like the movie "Khodynka", 1896-1901). Having made a trip to the Volga in 1896, wrote a series of images of people's bottom near "bosyatskim" themes young Maxim Gorky.

Successfully acted as a portraitist, book and magazine illustrator and teacher. Makovsky, died February 21, 1920.

A little more work ... Vladimir Makovsky