Dyukker Eugene E. (1841-1916)

February 10, 1841 Russian born artist - the academics Eugene E. Dyukker. In 1858, he entered the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. In the first year of teaching in 1859, he gets his first silver medals (two in number), in 1860, a silver medal. In 1861, for the painting "Livonian species' Academy awarded him a gold medal. In 1862, E. Dyukker gets the title of the class artist.

 Gold medal allowed him to get pensionerstvo abroad. He travels through Europe from 1863 to 1869, lives in Germany. By this time, his familiarity A. AP Bogolyubov .

 His work "Harvest in Dusseldorf," written in 1867, apparently, was acquired by A. Bogolyubov and entered the Saratov State Art Museum named after AN Radishcheva from his collection. Field stretching into the distance. Small grove in the background. On a footpath abutting the lower right corner of the picture, there is a woman. Right seen two other female figures who work in the field. Left - uncompressed field and a number of yellow-brown ricks, receding into the distance. In the foreground - the harvest is slanted, and makes its way through the aftermath of a yellow green grass. Before us is purely specific landscape. The path divides the canvas into two unequal parts, thus it seems deployed not only the distance, but also to the right. His compositional center forms the pinnacle of one of the stacks. The work clearly shows how the tradition Russian academic landscape species and the Dutch landscape. Dutch influence can be seen in a gray, overcast sky, which occupies two-thirds of the picture - because the Dutch were the first to show the world the beauty of it as a colorless sky, in poetizatsii heavy farm labor. Rezultativen work and so beautiful - this is beautifully expressed in the concept of the work. And this is also manifested Dutch tradition, with its sense of timeless beauty of everyday life.

In 1873, Eugene E. received a professorship. In 1908, for the work of "Swamp", "Seashore", "Field after the harvest," he was awarded the title of Academician.

EE Dyukker died in Dusseldorf in 1916.