Gennady Aleksandrovich Ladyzhensky (russian: Генна́дий Алекса́ндрович Лады́женский; 23 January 1852,

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His father was the Parish Clerk. At first, he studied to be an architect. In 1872, he prepared drawings and watercolors of the sixteenth-century churches in

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. After that, he decided to take up landscape painting and studied with Mikhail Clodt.Brief biography, related to an exhibition
@ the Department of Culture,

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. He was also influenced by the works of

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. In 1879, he was awarded the title of "Artist, Second Degree" and became a drawing teacher at the "Odessa Academy of Fine Arts". He began to exhibit widely in the mid 1880s and, in 1890, became one of the founders of the "Society of South Russian Artists". In 1891, he received the

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, third degree, from Tsar Alexander III. From 1892 through 1893, he toured Turkey, Crimea and the Caucasus, creating sketches of local life and customs, as well as landscapes. Among his best-known students were

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Oleksii Shovkunenko Oleksii Oleksiyovych Shovkunenko ( uk, Олексій Олексійович Шовкуненко; 21 March 1884 - 12 March 1974) was a Soviet painter and teacher, and from 1947 on a member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Shovkunenko was born in t ...

. His brother's granddaughter was famous mathematician

Olga Ladyzhenskaya Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (russian: Óльга Алекса́ндровна Лады́женская, link=no, p=ˈolʲɡə ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvnə ɫɐˈdɨʐɨnskəɪ̯ə, a=Ru-Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya.wav; 7 March 1922 – 12 Jan ...

. In 1910, the Imperial Academy named him an Academician although, by that time, he had largely given up painting in favor of collecting. Eventually, his collection encompassed not only art, but books, weapons, porcelain, furniture and various items from the Middle East. When he retired in 1914, he returned to his hometown and attempted to organize a museum. The First World War made this impossible, however, and the museum was not created until 1918, after his death. Most of his paintings are there.

References

External links

An exhibition of Gennady Ladyzhensky in Odessa Art Museum

@ "Kologriv-the Best City in the World".
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