Biography of Dubovskaya

The world of art artistic talent of our fellow countryman Nikolai Dubovsky received worldwide recognition. He combined creative activity, pedagogy classes with great socio-organizing activities.

The artist set himself high goals, to which he walked steadily and sought - to be useful to his homeland, to serve art, through him and society. Dubovskaya Nikolai Nikanorovich was born on December 6 in Novocherkassk, the Don army, in the Don Cossack family. His childhood years passed on the Don. He received primary education in Kyiv, where he studied at the Vladimir Kyiv military gymnasium.

Back in the childhood, Dubovskaya attracted attention to the extraordinary abilities in the field of painting. And, although his parents read him a military career, N. Dubovskaya decided to become an artist. His father, Nikanor Andreevich, was the foreman of the irregular units in the Donskoy army, a native of the old Cossack family, who took deep roots in the village of Nizhne-Kurmoyarskaya.

Don Cossacks and their capital. The great sons of the Don ”describes the members of the Dubovsky family: Father Nikanor Andreevich is a laconic, very restrained, harsh person. Mother, Lyubov Ivanovna, was remembered, as a quiet and charming woman, who had been taken away with eight children from morning till night: four boys and four girls. Nikolai was a sixth child in a family who, from an early age, surprised his parents with his seriousness and perseverance.

He could admire the bushes, trees, herbs, the movement of clouds, the game of sunlight ... addicted to drawing classes, Nikolai initially copied reproductions from illustrated magazines, and then began to perform drawings from memory. This lesson fascinated him so much that he entered into a kind of creative competition with his close relative Alexander Vasilyevich Pyshkin, who often visited the Dubovsky house.

Soon they began to engage in drawing by imagination. At eight, Nikolai performed drawings much more successfully than his adult opponent-mentor. The boy had artistic abilities. However, family traditions prevailed, and Nikolai was sent to study in Kyiv at the Vladimir military gymnasium. Pavel Nikolaevich Yushenov, who taught there, noticed the giftedness of the Novocherkassk boy and in every possible way contributed to his true calling.

Not without his knowledge, Nikolai took as usual to get up two hours earlier than other gymnasium students and engage in drawing. He copied gypsum casts, painted sleeping comrades. Yushenov’s mentoring contributed, it must be assumed that later the summer Dubovskaya made a difficult decision to abandon the military career and devote his life to the artist [1]. At the end of the Vladimir Kyiv military gymnasium in the year, the seventeen -year -old Dubovskaya seeks permission from his father and goes to St.

Petersburg, where he successfully enters the Imperial Academy of Arts, first by a free -lister, and then transferred to the workshop of the Landing Painting of Professor M. Klodt, who became his teacher. At the Academy of Arts, Nikolai Dubovskaya stayed for four years and received four small silver medals for his work. While still a student, he exhibited paintings in the classroom of students of the Academy and in a society of encouraging art.

The kindest relationship connected Dubovsky with their mentor Mikhail Konstantinovich Claudt. From Klodt, Nikolai Nikanorovich received the lessons of tireless study of Russian nature and concentrated hard work on his works. Having successfully completed the training course, he nevertheless refuses to participate in the competition for a large gold medal and spelling a diploma picture on a given topic, following the example of the participants of the “riot” of graduates, led by I.

Kramsky at the Academy of Arts in the year, when a number of artists left the academy, not wanting to write software “academic paintings”. Depriving himself, thereby, support from the Academy and the possibility of a pensioner trip abroad. After leaving the Academy of Arts, a novice artist is completely devoted to landscape painting. About the achievements of Dubovsky and some facts from his life during training at the Academy of Arts in St.

Petersburg, relying on archival documents, the authors of the article “Formers of Literature and Arts - our countrymen” A. Ganzhula, S. Michel, P. Nazarevsky in the collection of documents “Our region. Documents on the history of the Don region. XVIII - beginning of the XX century ”: Academy of Arts, recognizing Dubovsky’s exceptional merits in art, chose him as an academician in the year, and in the year a full member of the academy.

Since the year, Dubovskaya became a professor at the Academy of Arts and led the workshop of landscape painting. He tried to instill in his students a taste to the exact image of nature, remaining to the end of the faithful realistic traditions of the Wanderers. Dubovskaya took an active part in public life, vividly responded to the needs of artists, took care of the growth of young talents, about the state of study in art schools [2].Persistent in achieving the goal set for himself, the young artist worked a lot and fruitfully, improving his skill.

Even during the years of study at the Academy, he took part in art exhibitions, exposing his studies drawn from nature on them. Several early works were awarded the leadership of the Academy of Arts of Silver medals and incentive prizes. In the year in St. Petersburg, a “partnership of mobile art exhibitions” was created, N. Dubovskaya took an active part in his work. In the year in St.

Petersburg, an exhibition of paintings was opened, organized by the "Society for the Promotion of Arts." At this exhibition, N. Dubovsky “before the thunderstorm” and “after the rain” received prizes and quickly gained wide fame. In different cities of Russia, exhibitions of artists -anti -anti -prospectors who promoted their folk patriotic art were arranged annually.

At the exhibition of the Wanderers organized in the year, N. Dubovskaya exhibited the painting “Winter”, which was highly appreciated by I. Repin, V. Stasov and was acquired by P. Tretyakov for his art gallery. Dubovskaya travels a lot to European countries, he visited Italy,,, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland,,, France, Germany, the islands of the Greek archipelago, on the Danube, making sketches and sketches.

A great lover and connoisseur of the nature of his native country, Nikolai Nikanorovich traveled around Russia. Here he painted a lot. Mainly landscapes. Brightly and truthfully depicting Russian nature, the artist created wonderful realistic works that adorned the halls of mobile exhibitions. A lot of paintings were dedicated to the artist to the native land - Don.

These are the landscapes of the Don steppe, the paintings of the steppe Pridonya were reflected in such works of the artist as “mounds in the steppe”, “hays”, “Mishkina Balka” and others. The canvas "Mishkina Balka" is pierced by the rays of the midday sun. Ravings, deep, different and so changed, “fire -breath”, throat herbs, shake and sing in different voices. In the year, he wrote one of his best paintings “subsided”, which was highly appreciated by the masters of Russian painting.

When writing the painting “Silent”, the artist used a sketch written in the Baltic seaside. Nikolai Dubovskaya wrote in one of his letters: “The motive for creating this picture was an exciting feeling that took possession of me many times when observing nature at the time of silence in front of a large thunderstorm or in the intervals between two thunderstorms, when it can be difficult to breathe when you feel your insignificance when approaching the elements.

This is the name of my picture. ” The canvas was completed at the beginning of the year and presented at the exhibition of the Partnership of Mobile Art Exhibitions, which opened in February of the same year in St. Petersburg. The picture was a huge success; There, she was acquired by Emperor Alexander III, being the only picture bought by him at the exhibition. The picture was in the Winter Palace, and then, with the formation of the Russian Museum, in the year was transferred to its collection.

The art critic E. Tsygankov in the article “Creative Service of Art”, published in the “Don Temporary”, describes the events related to this picture: the canvas was exhibited at the XVIII exhibition of the Wanderers and glorified the name of Dubovsky for many years. The artist wrote a number of options on this topic. The mood that the painter created in his works is multifaceted.

The dramatic tension was replaced by a “subsided” romantically-integrated perception of nature [3]. I. Levitan wrote about the picture of N. Dubovsky, one of the best Russian landscape painters: we, perhaps, can convey the mood from nature, rather we endow nature with our accidents, come to it from the subjective, but such a seizure from nature itself, as “quietly”, where you feel not the author, but not everyone can convey [4].

The picture of N. Dubovsky-“The Falls of the Imatra”, the Sevastopol Art Museum, is an example of new figurative and expressive qualities. The Imatra waterfall is brought down on stones to whole layers of mighty waves, everything is driven in this twisted whirlpool, absorbing everything in its path, sweeping away and destructing in a single impulse. Dynamism is achieved using a personnel composition, where there is no plot and visual center.

In the image of the nature of Dubovskaya, the concept of landscape-addiction continues. In his work of the end of the 10ths, romantic and realistic trends constantly coexist. The works of N. Dubovsky were increasingly appearing not only at exhibitions in Moscow, Peterbur and other cities of the country, but also exhibited abroad. Dubovskaya is one of the few Russian landscape painters awarded gold and silver awards for participating in art international exhibitions in Paris, Munich and Rome.

Pictures of the landscape master are presented in the State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, the State Russian Museum S. Surikova, Sochi Art Museum and in many other museums and galleries of Russia and abroad.The painting “Homeland” was exhibited at the World Exhibition in Rome in the year and caused an enthusiastic response to I. Repin, who wrote to Dubovsky in the days in those days: oh, what a thing it is!

The best landscape of the entire exhibition, World, Roman! You, Nikolai Nikanorovich, I especially congratulate you! You have never been so magnificent and powerful before. Original, lively and beautiful picture !!! In this regard, we can recall the words of Dubovsky himself, who said that “there are many sides in art, and we also need purely colorful permissions, but what is more expensive: an external gloss, which will be broken by even more elegant painting tomorrow, or the internal spiritual content of a thing that will forever remain valuable