Alexey Bogolyubov

Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov (Russian Алексей Петрович Боголюбов; * March 16, 1824 near Veliky Novgorod, † February 3, 1896 in Paris) was a Russian landscape painter.

Life

Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov was born in 1824 in a village near the city of Veliky Novgorod. His grandfather was the famous philosopher and writer Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev. 1841 closed Bogolyubov his education at a military school from and served some time in the Russian Navy. From 1849 he attended the Saint Petersburg Art Academy and studied under Maxim Vorobyov. In addition, the works of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky had a great influence on his painting. Bogolyubov completed his studies in 1853. He resigned as a naval officer and had himself transferred as an artist in the Marine Headquarters.

In 1854 Bogolyubov toured Europe and collaborated with various artists such as Alexander Ivanov and Andreas Achenbach. In Paris he became friends also work closely with Camille Corot and Daubigny, before he returned to Russia in 1860. In the subsequent time he traveled the Volga region. His painting style changed from Romanticism through to realism. The Russian Academy of Arts took him in 1871, and appointed him professor. From the 1870s Bogolyubov had intensified contact with the Peredvizhniki group, which elected him a member of the board. The social ideas of the opposite group, he remained aloof and left the Peredvizhniki again in 1873 and moved to Paris.

In Saratov, he opened in 1885, named after his grandfather Alexander Radishchev Radishchev Art Museum. Bogolyubov died on February 3, 1896 in Paris. He bequeathed his fortune to the museum and this connected painting school.