Ivan Ivanovich Yendogurov (Russian: Иван Иванович Ендогуров; 23 October 1861, Kronstadt – 17 May 1898,

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) was a Russian landscape painter and watercolorist; associated with the Peredvizhniki. His younger brother, Sergey was also a well-known artist.

Biography

His father, , was a Counter Admiral in the

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. His mother was the daughter of Admiral . While attending the gymnasium, he and his brother became acquainted with the landscape painter,

Yefim Volkov Yefim Yefimovich Volkov (Russian: Ефим Ефимович Волков; 4 April 1844— 17 February 1920) was a Russian landscape painter.Frida Roginskaya, ''List of members of the Peredvizhniki: Historical Essays'', Moscow, Искусство ...

, and decided to make art their career.Brief biography
@ Russian Paintings. After graduating in 1880, he began studying law at

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, but continued to take lessons from Volkov. In 1884, he left the University to audit classes at the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

.Biographical notes
@ RusArtNet. His first exhibit came the following year and he was awarded a major silver medal in 1890. From 1885 through to the early 1890s, he exhibited prolifically, at the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, as well as with the Peredvizhniki; participating also in the

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and the

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During this time, he developed the first symptoms of

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. From 1890 to 1893, he lived in Italy (primarily

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), then spent a short time in southern France. After a stay at a spa in Bavaria, he decided to live in

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

from 1894 to 1895. Most of his paintings from there appear to be lost. Later, he returned to Italy and died of his illness on the island of Capri.Biography and appreciation
@ Восточно-Сибирская правда. Toward the end of 1898, the Imperial Academy held a joint retrospective for three artists who had died that year: Yendogurov,

Nikolai Yaroshenko Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (russian: Николай Александрович Ярошенко; uk, Микола Олександрович Ярошенко; – ) was a Russian Imperial painter of Ukrainian origin. Yaroshenko painte ...

and

Ivan Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. Biography Shishkin was born to a Russian me ...

. The following year, his mother endowed a fund at the Academy to establish the "Yendogurov Prize" for landscape painting. It was awarded until 1917.

References

External links

Arcadja Auctions: More works by Yendogurov.
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