GRANDKOVSKY Nikolai Karlovich

11 (23) February 1864 (Saratov) - May 5, 1907 (Penza)

Painter.

information about the family, in which the future artist was born, did not survive. Painting student, apparently from Saratov artists DN Rossova and MI Dolivo-Dobrovolsky. They are the same, noting the talent of young men, recommended him to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied in 1880-1888 on the funds of the city of Saratov.

In 1885 and 1886 won two small, but in 1888 - two large silver medals. Came out of college with the title of the class artist. Actively participated in exhibitions of the school, the Moscow Society of Artists and lovers of the Association of the Wanderers.

In 1894, the competition MOLH won first prize for "Portrait of the writer JH Zlatovratskiy", and in 1895 - second prize for his film "bathe».

Wrote and presented genre paintings on themes of national life, everyday sketches: "In the Classroom" (1883), "The lawyer" (1884), "Politics", "News from the son" (both -- 1885), "Jewish Musicians", "the garden" (both - 1886), "Beggars" (1887), "The incident" (1891), "Pentecost" (1893), "Temptation", "Far from the Motherland "(both - 1896)," mushroom market in Moscow "(1897)," In the Artist's Studio "(1902), etc.

In 1897 Grandkovskogo invited to teach in the Penza Art School and the Penza Theological Seminary. The artist accepted the offer and from that time until the end of life lived in Penza, almost continuously, being engaged in teaching and painting.

Even after his death in 1907 in Penza held a personal exhibition of his paintings.

Fabrics Grandkovskogo, who followed the tradition of late Peredvizhnichestvo, colorful and are made with attention to detail. Among them are philosophical landscapes ( "Forest"), and psychological profiles ( "Soldier", "The model"), and dramatic works ( "On the grave of the native"). Artist dabbled in is rarely encountered form of a profile portrait "(" old man's head "," Portrait of an unknown (Parkhomenko?) «).

Works Grandkovskogo stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery, in the Penza Art Gallery, in Yekaterinburg, in the Saratov State Art Museum ANRadishev.