Nikolai hero artist biography

The menu Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge 15, February 27, Voronezh, Voronezh province - June 1, June 1, Ivanovsky farm, Chernihiv province - Russian painter and draftsman, master of portraits, historical and religious paintings. Occasionally he also performed sculptural work. The early childhood of Nikolai passed in the village, and in the year he was brought to Kyiv, where he entered the first Kyiv gymnasium, where the teachers already noticed the abilities of Nikolai to draw and painting and the young man predicted the future of the artist.

However, at the end of the gymnasium, Nikolai, on the advice of his father, entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of Kyiv University. In St. Petersburg, there was a senior brother, to whom Nikolai, who dreamed, was moving, contrary to the will of his father, about training at the capital's Imperial Academy of Arts. The young man did not dare to enter the academy, and continued his studies at the Faculty of Mathematics of St.

Petersburg University. Studying at the university in the years, Nikolai stubbornly learns to drawing in the walls of the Hermitage. In the year, Her threw the university and entered the Academy of Arts, where he was engaged in the leadership of an academician, a professor of painting, a famous Petersburg artist Peter Basin. Even at a young age, struck by the work of Karl Bryullov, Nikolai carefully studies and copies the style and picturesque techniques of his beloved artist, which laid out a certain imprint on his own picturesque manner.

At the Academy, Nikolai Geh stayed for seven years. For the work, “Achilles mourns the cartridge,” he received a small gold medal of the academy in the year. The work of Saul at the Alendor sorceress brought him a large gold medal in the year, which gave the right to travel abroad at the expense of the academy. Nikolai Ge “literally fled from tsarist Russia” to Europe.

In Paris, two art events made a strong impression on the young artist - the salon and posthumous exhibition of works by the field of Delarosh. In Rome, he met A. Ivanov, whose work had "a very deep impact on Ge." During this period, as well as his being at the Academy, Nikolai Ge wrote portraits. So, the wife’s portrait study is made here, in addition to this, he will perform sketches - “The Death of Virginia” - “Love of Vestalka” and “Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple” by GE remained unhappy with these sketches.

For some time, the artist leaves work on historical topics and writes from nature - makes a trip to Naples, where he writes many studies. In the year, he leaves Rome and moves to Florence, where he tries to write a sketch “Death of Lambertia”, but soon throws this work. In the year, Ge began to write the “Secret Supper”, and in the year he brought it to St. Petersburg and put it up at an autumn exhibition at the Academy of Arts.

The picture made a strong impression on the public. The official press saw in the picture "The Triumph of Materials and Nigilism." Nevertheless, the “secret evening” of the brush of Nikolai Ge was acquired by the Russian emperor in a personal collection. Thus, the work of GE has received public recognition and undoubted success among the sophisticated metropolitan public. For the "Secret Valeta" the Academy appropriated the title of Professor to Nikolai Ge.

And, bypassing the title of Academician, he was also elected a full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts for a year before his death artist writes “Autoportrate”, canvas, butter. Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art. From the canvas appears the appearance of a middle -aged person who has not lost its close view of life and creativity. One of the main merits of Nicholas Ge, according to critics, is that he was the first among Russian artists to catch a new realistic direction in biblical plots.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge 15 on February 27, Voronezh, Voronezh province - June 1 13, Ivanovsky farm, Chernihiv province - Russian painter and drawing, master of portraits, historical and religious paintings.