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1874 St. Petersburg, Russia - 1947 Naggar Himachal Pradesh, India. Known for: Mystical landscape and figure painting-symbolism, teaching, set design.
An easel painter and stage-set designer with a unique semi-abstract style, Nicholas Roerich depicted landscapes, symbolic figures, ballet, religious themes, mysticism, Russia's ancient past and... Read full biography
An easel painter and stage-set designer with a unique semi-abstract style, Nicholas Roerich depicted landscapes, symbolic figures, ballet, religious themes, mysticism, Russia's ancient past and architectural structures such as churches and monasteries. He spent much of his career trying to... Read full biography
An easel painter and stage-set designer with a unique semi-abstract style, Nicholas Roerich depicted landscapes, symbolic figures, ballet, religious themes, mysticism, Russia's ancient past and architectural structures such as churches and monasteries. He spent much of his career trying to influence his native country to form a cohesive policy towards art and architecture, and to protect its fine art treasures of the past, and to create circumstances of human equality. However, government... Read full biography
An easel painter and stage-set designer with a unique semi-abstract style, Nicholas Roerich depicted landscapes, symbolic figures, ballet, religious themes, mysticism, Russia's ancient past and architectural structures such as churches and monasteries. He spent much of his career trying to influence his native country to form a cohesive policy towards art and architecture, and to protect its fine art treasures of the past, and to create circumstances of human equality. However, government officials resisted all those efforts, and Roerich, who became strongly anti-Lenin, spent the last years of his life far from his homeland including in western Europe, England, the United States and Asia. In addition to his painting, he became a writer,... Read full biography
An easel painter and stage-set designer with a unique semi-abstract style, Nicholas Roerich depicted landscapes, symbolic figures, ballet, religious themes, mysticism, Russia's ancient past and architectural structures such as churches and monasteries. He spent much of his career trying to influence his native country to form a cohesive policy towards art and architecture, and to protect its fine art treasures of the past, and to create circumstances of human equality. However, government officials resisted all those efforts, and Roerich, who became strongly anti-Lenin, spent the last years of his life far from his homeland including in western Europe, England, the United States and Asia. In addition to his painting, he became a writer, theosophist, philosopher and sought-after public speaker who, asserting political and religious freedom, earned nominations for the No... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (11)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesNicholas and Helena Roerich: The Spiritual Journey of Two Great Artists and Peacemakers
2003Drayer, Ruth A.357 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesMonhegan: The Artists' Island
1995Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward)192 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesArts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesThe Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesRepresentative Art and Artists of New Mexico
1976
(Exhibition catalog)School of American Research41 pagesPraeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971Bell, David2,139 pages (color)Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages