Aleksandr Agin
Also recorded as Alexander Alexeyevich Agin
Aleksandr Agin
Taras Shevchenko · Тарас Шевченко. Повне зібрання творів в десяти томах. — К., 1961. — Т. 7: Живопис, графіка 1830-1847. — Кн. 1-2. · Public domain
- Born
- Aleksandr Agin was born on 1 January 1817.
- Died
- Aleksandr Agin died on 1 January 1875. · Kachanivka.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Fields
- painting · illustration
- Education
- Imperial Academy of Arts
- Teachers
- Aleksey Yegorov · Karl Bryullov
- Languages
- Russian
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Aleksandr Agin studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. Training under Aleksey Yegorov and Karl Bryullov is recorded. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting and illustration. Employment is recorded with Ministry of Defence building (Ukraine).
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Aleksandr Agin lived from 1817 to 1875 and was an illustrator, scenographer and draughtsman. Aleksandr Agin was born in 1817 and died in 1875.
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Aleksandr Agin born.
1875
Aleksandr Agin died at Kachanivka.
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Aleksandr Agin died in Kachanivka.
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- 1.Valentin Kurbatov, "Художник с умом и чувством…" (An Artist with Wisdom and Feeling), in: Альманах библиофила, Moscow, 1975, pgs. 212—232.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Агин, Александр Алексеевич from the Russian Biographical Dictionary @ Russian WikiSource
- доп. I. 37.
- Агин, Александр Алексеевич // Dictionary of Russian Artists, Nikolai Sobko (Ed.), 1893 pgs. 36—39.
- Brunson, Molly. “Gogol Country.” Comparative literature. 69.4 (2017): 370–393.
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Formation and teaching. Agin studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. He trained under Aleksey Yegorov and Karl Bryullov.
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