Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky ( Polish: Stanisław Żukowski, russian: Станислав Юлианович Жуковский) (1873–1944) was a

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painter, and a member of

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Life

Zhukovsky was born in Yendrikhovtsy (Jędrzychowice), Grodno Province. He was a student of

Isaac Levitan Isaac Ilyich Levitan (russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; – ) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kibarty ...

and a graduate of the Moscow School of Painting. Zhukovsky became a celebrated landscapist working in a unique style which projected impressionistic methods and skills as well as his interpretation of the tradition of the Russian realist school. He established his own art studio in

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where he mentored students, including later to become a celebrated avantgardist

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and a young

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...

who was then working as a poster artist. As a painter, Zhukovsky left a legacy from capturing Russian

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and pre-revolutionary sites and the interior of Russian estate houses. His social predisposition left him skeptical of the

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revolution, and in 1923 he left

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for his ancestral homeland

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, then already an independent country. After the German occupation of Poland during

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, he was arrested by the

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s and held at the prisoner transit camp ('' Durchgangslager'') at

Pruszków Pruszków ( yi, ‏פּרושקאָוו) is a city in east-central Poland, situated in the Masovian Voivodeship since 1999. It was previously in Warszawa Voivodeship (1975–1998). Pruszków is the capital of Pruszków County, located along t ...

, where he eventually died in 1944.

Themes and series

*Spring *Summer *Autumn *Winter *Window to the World *Interior *Noble Nest *Nostalgia

Gallery

Selected works File:Осенний вечер2. 1905.jpg, ''Autumn evening'' (1905) File:Zhukovsky-Joyful May 1912.jpg, ''Joyful May'' (1912) File:Былое. Комната старого дома. 1912.jpg, ''The past. Room in an old house'' (1912) File:Мартовский вечер. 1904.jpg, ''March evening'' (1912)

References

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