Seraphima Iasonovna Blonskaya (Leontovskaya) (russian: Блонская, Серафима Иасоновна, 3 October 1870 – 9 August 1947) was a Russian artist and art teacher.
Seraphima Blonskaya was born on October 3, 1870 in
Verkhnodniprovsk
Verkhnodniprovsk (or Verkhnyodniprovsk, uk, Верхньодніпровськ, ; russian: Верхнеднепровск) is a city in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. The city is located at confluence of the Samot ...
of
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
The Yekaterinoslav Governorate (russian: Екатеринославская губерния, Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya; uk, Катеринославська губернія, translit=Katerynoslavska huberniia) or Government of Yekaterinos ...
, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). In 1875 her family moved to
Taganrog
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. In 1887 Blonskaya graduated with a golden medal from the
Mariinskaya Gymnasium (Таганрогская мариинская гимназия) and entered the Art School of
Mykola Burachek in
Kiev that she finished in 1891. In 1892-1900, she studied at the
Imperial Academy of Arts
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in
Saint Petersburg
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. In 1900 Blonskaya was honored with the title of the artist for her degree work painting ''The Girls'' (''Palm Sunday'').
In 1909 Blonskaya returned to Taganrog with her husband artist Leontovski, and in 1910 they founded an art school. After the death of her husband in 1928, the school was closed. In 1930s Seraphima Blonskaya worked at the art union ''Vsekohudozhnik'', since 1944 - at the Taganrog department of the Art Fund of
RSFSR. Most paintings of Blonskaya are exhibited at the
Taganrog Museum of Art.
Seraphima Blonskaya died in
Taganrog
Taganrog ( rus, Таганрог, p=təɡɐnˈrok) is a port city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the north shore of the Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. Population:
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on August 9, 1947 and was buried at the
Taganrog Old Cemetery. In 1990s one of the children's art schools in Taganrog was named after Blonskaya.
References
* ''The Encyclopedia of Taganrog'', 2nd edition, Taganrog, 2003.
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1870 births
1947 deaths
19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
20th-century Russian painters
19th-century Ukrainian painters
20th-century Ukrainian painters
Russian women painters
20th-century Ukrainian women artists
People from Verkhnodniprovsk
20th-century Russian women artists
19th-century women artists from the Russian Empire