Zhukovsky Rudolf Kazimirovich

1814 (Bialystok Province) - November 5, 1886 (St. Petersburg)

painter and graphic artist.

Art education has received under the leadership of AG Warneke at IAH, where he studied from 1833. In 1835 he was awarded a small silver medal for drawing from nature. In 1839, released from the Academy with the rank neklassnogo (free), painter. In 1853, approved the rank of "appointed" in academics, "by folk art scenes. From 1861 he taught at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists.

Many worked in the field of book and magazine graphics. He has designed more than 30 different publications, among which the almanac "Physiology of Petersburg" (1845), "Alexander Suvorov-Rymniksky. The historical novel for children "P. R. Furman (1848)," Potemkin as the Zaporizhzhya Cossack troops "N. Sementovskogo (1851)," Humpbacked Horse "P. Ershov (1856 ) and others. As a cartoonist has worked in the magazines "Illustration", "Iskra", "Splinter", "Repertoire and the Pantheon." In 1856-1858 participated in the release of the album NA Stepanova "Friends". He turned to lithography. In 1842-1843 created lithographic cycle «Scenes populaires russes» (Russian folk scene), in 1856 - the album of lithographs "Types of the park in the village Shablykino Orel province in the N. B. Kirievsky».

Surrey - one of the greatest masters of graphic middle of the XIX century, the representative of the so-called "natural school". In his works performed successor tradition established by PA Fedotov, characterized by an organic combination of genre with the satirical intonation, literary and edification of the plot. As Fedotov, often accompanied by explanatory inscriptions work.

Creativity Zhukovsky represented in many museum collections, including the State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin and others.