Ukrainisches Dorf
PYOTR ALEXANDROVICH SUKHODOLSKY 1836 Region of Kaluga - St. Petersburg 1903 Ukrainisches Dorf Ukrainian village Öl auf Leinwand, am Rand doubliert. 71 cm x 107,5 cm. Rahmen. Rückseitig in Kyrillisch Oil on canvas, at the borders laid down on canvas, 71 by 107,5 cm, on the backside in Cyrillic signed 'Sukhodolsky', dated '1865', min. restored, framed. Der 1835 geborene Künstler stammte aus einer adeligen Familie und begann sein Studium Ende Literature: Cf. Exhib..- Cat. Staatliches Russisches Museum St. Petersburg. Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Russlands in Werk und Bild, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn 1995, page 146. Suchodolskijs Werk zeichnet sich aber auch durch die Landschafts- und Genremalerei aus. The artist was born 1835 in a noble family and began his studies in the end of the 1850th at the art academy in St. Petersburg. Later he got a studentship and became a member of the academy. In the 1880th he executed a painting row, which shows the occurrencies of the Russian-Turkish war. However, Suchodolski's work also distinguishes itself by the landscape and genre painting. The abolition of serfdom by Tsar Alexander II in 1861 was an important step in the development of Russia. These changes are also reflected in the paintings which dissociates itself from the romanticism and the idyll of the village life. In the present painting there is exemplarily an Ukrainian village with his simple and authentic living conditions. A comparable work of the artist with the title 'midday in the village' is in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.