Alexey Petrovich Bogoliubov (16 March 1824 village Pomerania Novgorod Gubernia - 3 February 1896 Paris) was a Russian landscape painter.
Bogoliubov was born into the family of a retired colonel Pyotr Gavriilovich Bogolyubov. His maternal grandfather was famous philosopher and social critic Alexander Radishchev [1].
In 1841, Alexey graduated from a military school, served in the Russian Navy and travelled with the fleet to many countries. In 1849, he started to attend classes of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he studied under Maxim Vorobiev. Young painter was greatly influenced by Ivan Ayvazovsky. In 1853, he finished the Academy with a major Gold medal. He retired as a navy officer and was instead appointed an artist to the Navy headquarters. From 1854 to 1860, he traveled around Europe and worked prolifically. In Rome, he was acquainted with Alexander Ivanov, who convinced Bogoliubov to focus more on drawing. In Düsseldorf, Bogoliubov took classes from the painter Andreas Achenbach. In Paris, he admired the artists of the Barbizon School. French painters Camille Corot and Charles François Daubigny were good friends and collaborators with Bogoliubov. He returned to Russia in 1860. He exhibited his works in the Academy and received the title of professor. For some time he taught in the Academy. In the 1860s, he traveled along the Volga and lost all traces of Romanticism in his paintings, replacing that element with staunch realism of the natural. In 1871 he was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts
Since 1870ies he became close to the The Itinerants art movement, participated in all their exhibitions and became a member of their board. Still he was much older than most of the other members of the movement and he kept rezervations over their social ideas. In 1873 Bogolyubov left the in solidarity with his fellow Itinerants, he even tried to create an alternative Russian Academy of Arts in Rome[1].
Since 1873 Bogolyubov mostly lived in Paris, because of his heart condition. His house was a center of Russian colony there among the frequent visitors were Ivan Turgenev, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Vasily Polenov, Mark Antokolski, Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin[1].
In 1885 Bogolyubov opens the Art Museum in Saratov named after his grandfather Radischev Museum. It was the first art museum in Russia opened to everybody[1]. After his death Bogolyubov left all his money and capital (around 200 thousand Russian rubles to the museum and its painting school[1]. The school was opened after Bogolyubov's death and named Bogolyubov's Painting School (Боголюбовское Рисовальное Училище)[1].
Reference
- ^ a b c d e f Alexey Bogolyubov Template:Ru icon article
- Bogoliubov. by M. I. Andronnikova. Moscow. 1962