Trained at Kyiv Art School, he went to Berlin 1923, and on to Paris a couple of years later. Almost all his known paintings come from the last 6 years of his life.
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He studied in Odesa, Munich and St Petersburg, then painted in Russia until he emigrated to Paris in 1925, and on to New York in 1933.
A prolific landscape painter who taught key members of the avant garde. He was also a founding supporter of Kyiv Zoo.
Trained in Kyiv, Kraków, and with Matisse in Paris, he is best known for his virtuoso Impressionist oil sketches.
Although born in Russia, he moved to Kyiv in 1877, and for 30 years was a key figure in art education there, teaching several of the important painters from the early 20th century.
Also known as Pyotr Nilus, Piotr Nilouss, and Peter Alexandrovitch Nilouss, he emigrated to Paris in 1920.
Naturalist views of ordinary people in Ukrainian countryside that use Bastien-Lepage’s successful formula with defocussing of the background.
Born to the north of Kherson, he trained in Odesa, then spent much of his life travelling in Europe, painting Belgium and France in particular.
He remained popular and successful in Ukraine and Russia from the 1880s into the Second World War, through revolution, war and starvation.
In five years of prolific painting, he concentrated on the Black Sea coast near Odesa, in all its moods. Could he have been a successor to Ivan Aivazovsky?
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