Vladimir Makovsky

Vladimir Makovsky Jegorowitsch (Russian: Владимир Егорович Маковский, scientific transliteration Vladimir Egorovic Makovskij; * 26 Januarjul / February 7 1846greg in Moscow, .. † February 21, 1920 in Petrograd ) was a Russian painter, educator and member of the cooperative of artists the traveling exhibitions of Peredvizhniki. He was the younger brother of Konstantin Makovsky.

In the period 1861-1865 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1873 he joined the Peredvizhniki. He was soon to become one of the leaders of this movement and established his artistic activities closely follow the development of this movement.

Later, however, in the period from 1882 to 1894 he taught at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He then headed to the studio in 1916 for genre painting of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He died in 1920 in what was then Petrograd, now St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Makovsky painted mainly genre pictures. His works founded on a profound and accurate observations of life and the lives of ordinary people. He became one of the major representatives of the Russian genre painting of the second half of the 19th century.

Along with genre painting Makowski was primarily a portrait painter and worked beyond the field of illustration of literary works. So he illustrated example, the books by Nikolai Gogol.