Gritsenko Nikolai Nikolaevich

May 8, 1856 (Kuznetsk Tomsk Province) - December 8, 1900 (Menton, France)

Painter, graphic artist

born in a family physician. He studied at the Engineering School of Emperor Nicholas I in Kronstadt (1875-1880). In 1880-1894 served in the Navy. At the same time as a student attending volnoslushayuschego IAH (1885-1887); the advice LF Lagorio. In 1887-1889 and 1891-1894 on the mission of the Ministry of Marine had lived in Paris, where he worked under the leadership of AP Bogolyubov, as well as in the studio F. Cormoret.

worked primarily as a landscape, seascape. In 1880 - the first half of 1890 participated in a number of overseas voyages on warships ( "Vladimir Monomakh", "Shooter"), including a voyage around the world on the battleship cruiser "(1889-1890). From July 1890 to August 1891 aboard the frigate "Memory of Azov" was accompanied by an heir to the Russian throne of Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich in his journey to the East - in Egypt, Greece, India, to Ceylon and Java, Japan, Far East Russia. In the first half of 1890 made several trips to France, worked in Normandy, Brittany, in the south of the country. He visited Holland, Italy.

In 1894 he was appointed artist Naval Ministry. In the same year he married the daughter of Pavel Tretyakov Lyubov Pavlovna, then lived mostly in Moscow and a dacha in Kurakin. Created images of interiors house Tretyakov. Periodic visits to Russia (the Volga region, Caucasus, Crimea, Siberia) and in France.

In 1886 participant of exhibitions, has exhibited his work at academic announcements (1886-1894, with interruptions), at the Paris Salon (1888-1899, with interruptions), exhibitions of the St. Petersburg Society of Artists (1894-1896 ), the Society of Russian watercolors (1895-1899, with interruptions), the Moscow Society of Art Lovers (1897-1900), TPHV (1897-1900). Participated in the World Exhibition in Paris (1889, 1900; in 1900 was awarded a bronze medal), the All-Russia industrial and agricultural exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod (1896). Held solo exhibitions in St. Petersburg (1894) and Paris (1896).

in 1902 in St. Petersburg hosted a memorial exhibition of the artist.

Gritsenko works are in many museum collections, among them - the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin and others.