SVETOSLAVSKY (Svetoslavsky) Sergey

September 24, 1857 (Kiev) - September 19, 1931 (Kiev)

Painter, graphic artist

place of the nobility, the son of the court counselor. In 1875-1883 he studied at MUZhViZ from AK Savrasov, Perov, ES Sorokin, IM Pryanishnikova, V. D. Polenova. In July - December 1882 attended classes at IAH as volnoprihodyaschego student. For landscape sketches was awarded a small silver medals and a small bonus. In 1883 he returned to MUZhViZ, was named teacher of drawing, without completing the course.

lived in Moscow (1870-1883, 1890-1894) and Kiev (1884-1890, from 1895). He worked primarily as a landscape painter. In 1880 and 1883 traveled to the southern provinces of Russia (Kiev, Chernigov, Poltava, Ekaterinoslav, Kharkiv, Kherson, Tauris) and the Black Sea coast. In the 1880's - 1890's, has repeatedly traveled to the south of Russia, the Caucasus, Ukraine, Crimea.

since 1884 has participated in exhibitions TPHV in 1891 (in 1900) - a member of the Association. Has exhibited his work also shows the Moscow Society of Art Lovers (1890-1891, 1907), Kiev Association Art Exhibition (1894, 1896), the All-Russia industrial and agricultural exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod (1896), exhibitions of the Association of South Russian Artists (1900), "Worldwide Art "(1901-1902), Autumn exhibitions in the halls of the IAH (1907). In 1900, for the painting "Yard" was awarded a bronze medal at the World Exhibition in Paris. In 1904-1917 participated in charity exhibitions, including displays, arranged by the department of the Kiev guardianship of the deaf, to assist the Polish population affected by military action during World War I, and others.

In 1905-1907 an art studio for classes with students of the Kiev School of Art, excluded for participation in the student speeches. He worked in the field of satirical graphics, cartoons published in Kiev magazine "Hornet" (1906).

between 1904 and 1908 to order lumber SS Mogiltseva created a series of pictorial panels on the novel AKTolstoy Prince Silver ».

In 1910-1911 he traveled to Central Asia, created a cycle of paintings devoted to her nature, life and life in the East. In addition to artistic activity in the travel involved in the acquisition of animals for the Kiev zoo. He was an honorary member of the Kiev Society of cruelty to animals.

In 1914 he was a member of the jury projects monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kiev. Since the beginning of 1920 almost did not work, in connection with the aggravated eye disease.

Svetoslavsky - one of the leading representatives of Ukrainian art in the second half of the XIX century. In his works performed successor of the traditions of Russian realistic landscape: he wrote the lyric species (predominantly rural nature), often enriching their animalistic or genre scenes, worked out the problem of coverage with a love of subtle coloristic effects. Rarely spoke to the urban landscape and landscape-marina.

Svetoslavskogo works are in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Museum of Ukrainian Art in Kiev and others.