Svetoslav Roerich - Artist Info

About Svetoslav Roerich

  • Biography

    Svetoslave Roerich:
    Born: November 5, 1904 ?Deceased: January 30, 1993
    Russian philosopher, artist, culture expert


    Svetoslav Nikolaevich Roerich started his artistic way as a portraitist and reached outstanding proficiency in this genre. One of the distinctive features of his creativity was the aspiration to feel deeply the character of the person, whose portrait he was painting. Svetoslav Nikolaevich noted: “A successful portrait is more than just a similarity”.

    Besides portrait, he resorted to landscape, epic, genre and symbolical painting and in everything proves to be a virtuoso master and an inspired experimenter.

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