"Bringing the Museum to You"

The Cyber Art Show continues our study of Russian landscape painters in the Public Domain with a ten-piece Exhibition of works by Nikolay Dubovskoy (1859-1918), born in Novocherkassk, a province of Rostov.

 

Nikolay studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg under Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt from 1877 to 1881. In 1886, he became a member of the Peredvizhniki (meaning “the Wanderers”), a group of contemporary avant-garde painters who spurred an artists’ movement in Russia. The Peredvizhniki sought to rebel against  the academic restrictions of the time. The artists' cooperative gradually evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870. Formed in St. Petersburg under the leadership of Ivan Kramskoi, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Nikolai Ge and Vasily Perov, the group sought to use democratic ideals in the art sphere to free itself from the grip  of government rule.

 

In 1900, Dubovskoy became a member of the Academy of Arts and participated in the Universal Exhibition, Paris. He also travelled to Sillamäe, Estonia, a popular destination for intellectuals and scientists from Russia. In 1911, Dubovsky became a professor at the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, specializing in landscape paintings. 

 

Today, Dubovskoy works are represented in the collections at Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, among others.