Nicolai Nikanorovich Dubovsky - Artist Info

About Nicolai Nikanorovich Dubovsky

Name variants

Nikolaj Nikanorovich Dubovskoy, Dubovskoy Nikolai Nikanorovich, Nicolas Nikanorovitch
  • Biography

    Nicolai Dubovsky was born in Novocherkassk (province of Rostov, on the Don) in 1859 and died in St. Petersburg in 1918. He was born into a family of Don Cossaks. He studied from 1877 to 1881 at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg under Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt.

    In 1886 he became a member of the Peredvizhniki (the Wanderers), a group of Russian artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative which evolved into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions in 1870. The society formed in 1870 in St. Petersburg under Ivan Kramskoi, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Nikolai Ge and Vasily Perov's leadership as part of the contemporary avant-garde artists' movement towards democratic idea...

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