AMMOSOV (Amoz) Sergey (Sergeyevich)

24 мая (5 июня) 1837 — 3 (15) November 1886 (Moscow)

Painter, watercolorist, draftsman

bourgeois, son of the court counselor. Andrianov studied at school in Moscow, the Second school of technical drawing (late 1850-х), MUZHVZ (1860-1864) А. К. Саврасова. In 1863 "for the good success in the arts" the Academy awarded a small silver medal. Graduated from College with the rank neklassnogo (free) artist. In 1869, for the painting "Entrance in the village of Kutuzovo after the rain" received the title of class artist of 3-й degree in 1870 for the painting "Edge of the forest in the vicinity of Moscow" — artist 2-й degree. In 1872, for the painting "the Poltava field" was awarded the title of class artist 1-й degree.

he Lived in Moscow. Worked as a landscape painter; was engaged in lithography, watercolor. Author of painting works: "Tree by the brook" (1859), "Lesnaya Polyana" (1867), "boats on the river" (1868), "Autumn" (1871), "Bank of Ural near Orenburg" (1874), "Before the storm" (1874), "Orenburg steppe" (1875), "Compressed field", "Bank of the Oka river in the Ryazan province" (1876), "Landscape with mill" (1884 (?)), "Oka. Sandy coast" (1885), "the Bridge" (1880-е) and others. In 1873, together with В. Г. Перовым went to the sketches in Samara, Orenburg, Uralsk, Guriev, Astrakhan, Tsaritsyn.

From 1869 — participated in exhibitions. Exhibited in the halls of the Imperial Academy of arts (1869-1886, with breaks). A member and Exhibitor of Moscow society of art lovers (1866-1886, with interruptions), TPHV member (1871-1887, a member since 1872).

he Taught watercolor painting at the Moscow school of painting (1879).

Works are in several Museum collections, among them — of the State Tretyakov gallery, Chuvash state art Museum, Taganrog Museum of art, the State art Museum of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.

Sources:
1. Bulgakov Ф. И. Our artists. St. Petersburg, 1889. P. 14.
2. The state Tretyakov gallery. The collection catalogue. Painting of the second half of the nineteenth century. Moscow, 2001, vol. 4, BK. 1. P. 50-51.
3. Kondakov С. Н. List of Russian artists. For the anniversary directory of the Imperial Academy of arts. St. Petersburg, 1914. P.6.
4. Sobko Н. П. Dictionary of Russian artists. St. Petersburg, 1893, vol. 1, vol. 1, STB. 140-141.
5. The Stroganov school. Imperial Central Stroganov-промышленное school: 1825-1918. Biographical dictionary. M., 2007, vol. 2. P. 54.
6. Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1970, vol. 1. Pp. 129-130.