| Original Artist | Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky |
|---|---|
| Code# | 19986 |
| Available in | Medium Quality High Quality |
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Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky
(1868 Smolensk, Russia - 1945 Smolensk, Russia)
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky was born in the province of Smolensk into a peasant family. From 1884 to 1889 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Makovsky, Polenov and Pryanishnikov. From 1890 onwards he exhibited with the Itinerants, and in 1895 became a member of the Society for Circulating Art Exhibitions. Bogdanov-Belsky had a particular liking for depicting peasants, especially peasant children. His generally acclaimed paintings devoted to village school life are “Oral Reckoning at Rachinsky’s People’s school” (1903). Bogdanov-Belsky painted a serious of portraits of eminent figures of contemporary Russian culture, among them the pedagogue, professor Rachinsky (1903), the artist Borhm, the historian and bibliographer Barsukov (1902), Fiodor Shaliapin (1916) and Maxim Gorky (1940).
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