Artist Samokish Biography

Home Artists Samokish Nikolai Semenovich Samokish Nikolay Semenovich Biography Outstanding Ukrainian Soviet painter, Batalist artist, master of the animalist genre, graphic and teacher. Samokish Nikolay Semenovich was born on November 13 in Nezhin, in the Chernihiv region in a poor, large family. He graduated from Nezhinsky classical gymnasium. In the year, the first artistic skills received the first artistic skills by Nikolai Samokish’s gymnasium, he goes to St.

Petersburg and makes the first attempt to enter the Imperial Academy of Arts, but due to the lack of drawing skills from nature, he cannot cope with examination tasks. But the artist does not give up, works persistently and the next year brilliantly passes entrance exams to the academy. For a year, he studies at the Academy, where his teachers were B. Villevalde, P.

Chistyakov and V. Success quickly came to a young artist. Already in the year, Samokish received a small gold medal for the painting “The Return of Troops to Homeland”. In the year, he published the first album of etchings made under the leadership of L. In the year, he received the award of S. Stroganov for the painting "Landigator at the Fair." In the year, a second small gold medal was awarded for the painting “Episode from the Battle of Battle at Maly Yaroslavts”, and the painting “Walk” acquired for his gallery P.

for the thesis “The Russian Cavalry is returning after the attack on the enemy near Austerlitz in the year” received a large gold medal. For a year, he improves his skill in Paris under the leadership of the famous battalist Edward Detagan.

In the year, he was awarded the title of Academician of Painting for the work “Tabun on a Watering Polar”. In the years, together with S. Vasilkovsky, N. Samokish worked on illustrations for albums on the history of Ukraine - “Ukrainian Old” and “Ukrainian Ornament”. In the year, as a seconded artist as part of the Nezhinsky Dragoon Regiment, he participates in hostilities on the fronts of the Russian-Japanese war.

A significant part of the works of this period entered the album “War of the Year”, in which Samokish with great artistic truth recreates a picture of human tragedy. Acting member of the Imperial Academy of Arts since the year. In the year, N. Samokish formed an “artistic detachment” of five students of the battal class of the Academy of Arts R. Frenz, P. Kotov, P. Miturich, P.

Pokarzhevsky, K. Trofimenko and went to the front of the First World War. At the front, artwork was done. After the revolution, the artist devoted his work to the Red Army. In the year, he writes the painting “The attack of the Budynovsky cavalry”, which was included in the cycle of works about the First Horse Army. In the year, Nikolai Semenovich headed the battalion-historical workshop of the Kharkov Art Institute.

In the year, the State Prize was awarded to the artist for the painting “Transition of the Red Army through Sivash”. The artist died in Simferopol on January 18. Pictures of the academician of battal painting N. Samokish - about three thousand works - are exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Hermitage, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, as well as in numerous museums and galleries around the world.

The canvases “attack of the Budynovskaya cavalry”, “assault on the Perekop Val”, “the transition of the Red Army through Sivash”, “in intelligence” - are represented in the Simferopol Art Museum. Photo: Guard Colonel V.