Russian Actors

Tropinin Vasily Andreyevich (1776 – 1857) – painter-portraitist, was born a serf gr. Markov, who later released him to freedom. Nine-year-old has been identified in their master students of the Imperial Academy of Arts, formed in it under the guidance of Shchukin and, having finished her course in 1804, settled in Moscow, where he worked [...]

Menzel Adolph Friedrich Erdmann (1815) – The famous German historical and genre painter, attended, but very short time, the classes of academic artists in Berlin and formed almost self-taught. He first became known in 1833 notebook drawings, executed with pen and depicting "Life Artist" (Kunstlers Erd wallen). During this youthful effort AM followed by a [...]

Bart Victor S. (1887) – painter and art theorist. In 1911, expelled from the Academy of Arts, and then from the Moscow School of Painting of the "Leftism". In the years 1910-1913. participates in exhibitions "Knave of Diamonds", "Donkey's Tail" and "Target". In 1913, performs tempera wall paintings in with. Polichkovke, Kharkov province.

Francisco Goya Lutsientesa (1746 – 1828) famous Spanish painter and engraver, in his childhood he discovered the extraordinary artistic ability; studied with the painter X. de Lutsara-Martinez, a Saragossa, spent his youth, full of disturbing adventure, and in 1765 came to Rome, where he was not so much paintings and copying the Italian masters, as [...]

Bellini (Bellini) – a family of great Venetian painters. Senior representative of this family of artists had Jacopo B., was born (1464). In the early XV desk. Around 1464, was one of the students Gentile da Fabriano. He lived in Florence, Verona and Venice. The most remarkable of his work is to write for Verona's [...]

Sauerweid Alexander was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, where the September 19, 1839 received a gold medal of the second degree for the submitted paintings to the class of paintings of marine species. These two paintings, bearing the same name "Storm on the Sea", made an impression on the academic exhibition in 1839 [...]

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (17/07/1817 – 19/04/1900) was born July 17, 1817 in Feodosia in the family of Armenian businessman, later went bankrupt. First, he studied at the gymnasium in Simferopol, and then in 1833 he entered the Petersburg Academy of Arts, where from 1833 to 1839 he studied under Mikhail Vorobyov in landscape class.

Ryabushkin Andrei Petrovich (1861 – 1904), was born in a family of peasant icon painter. At the age of fourteen years, Andrew was left an orphan, but was able to enroll in training at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he worked from 1875 to 1882.

Kamenev Valerian Konstantinovich (1822 – 14/12/1874) – Academy of Art, was born in 1822 in Novgorod province, died on Dec. 14, 1874 in Gatchina. A nobleman by birth, a graduate of the Novgorod school, he did not finish his studies and enrolled in 1838 to serve in the local criminal court, then moved to the [...]

Cimabue, Giovanni (Cimabue) (1240 – 1302) – Florentine painter, one of the major regenerators of Italian painting after a long stagnation of medieval, came from a wealthy and distinguished family Gvaltern Charles, was born, according to Vasari, in 1240, he worked in Florence and in the adjacent field, and died probably in 1302, before its [...]