Kivshenko Alex Kuchma (1851-1895)

Kivshenko Alex Kuchma - the painter of domestic, hunting and batalicheskih scenes. Entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1867 when he was in it deserved a few silver medals in 1876, received a gold medal for his painting "Samson and Delilah", and the following year, then graduated from the course with a large gold medal for "Marriage in Cana of Galilee. " But as this picture was not quite finished, the artist was invited to the acquisition of the right to travel to foreign lands at government expense, to write a different picture on the subject of his own choosing. As a result, in 1879, it was "The military council in the village of Fili" - the most successful product Kivshenko, if not with the technical side, in respect of design, composition and expressiveness (in the museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, repetition - the Tretyakov Gallery , in Moscow).

Going abroad in 1880, Kivshenko spent 4 years in Düsseldorf, Munich and Paris, and performed at this time a number of pictures of different content, I will establish his fame. These works, especially the same picture, "kennel yard" (at the Academy of Fine Arts), brought him on his return to St. Petersburg, the title of Academician (in 1884). In the summer of 1884 he made a trip to the edge of the Transcaucasian to collect materials for the ordered him to Emperor Alexander III of paintings depicting some memorable episodes of the Turkish war of 1877 - 78 years. In 1891 he accompanied the archaeological expedition N. Kondakova in Palestine and Syria, from which brought a lot of studies that reproduce nature and people's way of life in these countries. Many of these studies were then published in politipazhah.

In addition to oil painting, watercolor Kivshenko works fine brush and pencil, and his paintings, mostly depicting scenes of rural life and the hunting life, in a significant number appeared in a variety of illustrated publications.

In 1894 Kivshenko appointed by the new time charter of the Academy of Fine Arts, professor and head of the studio batalicheskih its top art school. Died in 1895

Kivshenko chief works, besides the above, it is necessary to admit: "The Congress of the fair, in Little Russia" (1882; Liechtenstein belongs to the city, St. Petersburg), "Rabbit Hunt" and "Fox Hunt" (both 1882; property Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich), "Storm Ardahan" (1886, in the Winter Palace), "Storm Gorgohotanskih heights, January 1, 1878" (1887, ibid), "The defeat of the army of Mukhtar Pasha at Aladzhinskih Heights" (1888, ibid), "Zevinsky battle" (1889, ibid), "Takes a wolf alive" (1889, at the Academy of Fine Arts) and the "Sort Feathers "(1891).