Kardovsky D.N. (1866-1943), Artist

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KARDOVSKY Dmitry Nikolaevich (1866-1943) graphic artist, painter, pedagogue, honoured worker of arts of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1929). He was trained at the Academy of Arts (1892-96, 1900-02) under P. P. Chistyakov and I. E. Repin and at the school of A. Azbe in Munich (1896-1900). In 1892-1918, he lived in St. Petersburg. From 1907, he lived at Tsarskoe Selo, at 35 Konyushennaya Street. From 1920, he lived in Moscow. He was a graphic realist artist, he illustrated Russian classics: Kashtanka by A. P. Chekhov (1903), Woe from Wit by A. S. Griboedov (1907-12), The Inspector General (1922-33), Nevsky Prospect (1904) by N. V. Gogol etc.; the theme of his paintings and drawings was history (On Senate Square, The Water-Colour, 1927). In 1904-17, he was an initiator and permanent head of the New Society of Artists. He taught at the Academy of Arts (in 1903-07, was an assistant at the workshop of Repin in 1907-18, and in 1920-22 he was in charge of the workshop; from 1907 he was a professor, from 1911, he was a full member of the Academy of Arts, from 1915 he was a member of the Council of the Academy of Arts). From 1920 to 1930, he lived in Moscow. In 1933-34 he worked at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He proved himself an outstanding teaching-innovator, training many talented artists (B. D. Grigoryev, P. A. Shillingovsky, D. A. Shmarinov, V. I. Shukhaev, A. E. Yakovlev et al.).

Works: About Art: Memoirs, Articles, Letters, Moscow, 1960.

References: Подобедова О. И. Дмитрий Николаевич Кардовский. М., 1957.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Azbe Anton
Chekhov Anton Pavlovich
Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich
Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
Griboedov Alexander Sergeevich
Grigoryev Boris Dmitrievich
Kardovsky Dmitry Nikolaevich
Repin Ilya Efimovich
Shillingovsky Pavel Alexandrovich
Shmarinov Dementy Alexeevich
Shukhaev Vasily Ivanovich
Yakovlev Alexander Evgenievich
Konyushennaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 35
Подобедова О. И. Дмитрий Николаевич Кардовский. М., 1957
Об искусстве: Воспоминания, статьи, письма. М., 1960 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
New Society of Artists
Repin Academic Institute Of Painting, Sculpture And Architecture, St. Petersburg State