Mykola Pymonenko

Mykola Pymonenko studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. Mykola Burachek is recorded as having studied under Mykola Pymonenko. The recorded working language is Russian and Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Places of work recorded in the authority are Ukraine. Residence is recorded at Kyiv. Employment is recorded with Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Works named in the authority record are Victim of fanaticism, Harvest in Ukraine, A boy in a straw hat, Russian soldier in the theater, Ford and Jews carrying things bought at auction. Work by Mykola Pymonenko is recorded in the collections of Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Fine Arts Museum Kharkiv, National Museum in Warsaw, National Art Museum of Ukraine and Kovalenko Krasnodar Regional Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class and Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class.

• Native Name — Микола Пимоненко • Born — 9 March 1862 • Birthplace — Priorka, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) • Died — 26 March 1912 • Place of death — Kyiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) • Known for — Painting • Style — Realism • Alma Mater — Alumni • Education — Member

Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko was born 9 March 1862 in the village of Priorka on the outskirts of Kyiv. His father was a master iconographer, of Ukrainian descent. After working as his father's assistant, Pymonenko went on to study icon painting at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. In 1876, Pymonenko's work was seen by Mykola Murashko, one of the founders of the Kyiv Art School, who was impressed by the young artist, and lobbied the school's financial backers to allow him to study there for free. Two years later, Pymonenko enrolled at the school, where he worked with the painters Khariton Platonov, Murashko, and others. He studied there until 1882. After his examination work was sent to the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1881, he received a licence to teach drawing at lower secondary school level, and was able to audit classes at the Academy. He married the daughter of Vladimir Orlovsky, one of his instructors. From 1882 to 1884 Pymonenko studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts. That year, both his poor health (possibly caused by tuberculosis) and a lack of funds caused him to return to Kyiv, where he found work as a drawing teacher at a private school. After the school closed in 1901, he moved to the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II. From 1906 he taught at the Kyiv Art School, Kazimir Malevich being one of his most notable students. • Illustration — Pymonenko in his studio In 1897, Pymonenko was involved in decorating Kyiv's St Volodymyr's Cathedral and was awarded the Order of Saint Anne for his work there. From 1893 he was a member of the Peredvizhniki, and in 1899 he became a full member of the group, and was named an 'academician' in 1904. He won a gold medal at the Salon in 1909 for his exhibited painting Hopak, now in the Louvre. In addition to the Louvre, Pymonenko's work was also of interest in Germany. In 1904, one of the Munich museums acquired the painting "Maundy Thursday". The National Art Museum has an author's copy of the smaller painting from the late 1900s. Pymonenko died in 1912 after a short illness. He was buried at the Lukyanivka Cemetery. His 1913 posthumous exhibition at the Academy of Arts featured 184 paintings, 419 sketches and 112 pencil drawings. A street was named after him in 1959, and, in 1997 a museum devoted to him was opened in Malyutyanka, a village he visited regularly each year. Several of his works have alternate versions, painted years apart.

• Illustration — Matchmakers (1882), Kovalenko Krasnodar Regional Art Museum • Illustration — Maundy Thursday (1887), National Art Museum of Ukraine • Illustration — Yuletide Fortune Tellers (1888), Russian Museum • Illustration — The Reaper (1889), National Art Museum of Ukraine • Illustration — Easter Matins (1891), Rybinsk Museum-Preserve • Illustration — A victim of fanaticism (c. 1899), Fine Arts Museum Kharkiv • Illustration — Study of a young boy in a straw hat (19051906), National Museum in Warsaw • Illustration — Flower Girl (1908), National Art Museum of Ukraine • Illustration — A Conversation (before 1912), The Kostroma State Historical, Architectural & Arts Museum Reserve

The authorities additionally record the headings Mykola. Pimonenko, Mykola Kornylevych Pimonenko, Nikolay Kornil'yevich Pimonenko, Nikolai Kornilievich Pimonenko and Mykola Pimonenko. His recorded languages were Russian and Ukrainian.

Mykola Pymonenko worked in painting. His work is associated with French Realism. He was employed by Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He worked at Ukraine and Kyiv.

Works recorded as notable number 7: Victim of fanaticism, Harvest in Ukraine, A boy in a straw hat, Russian soldier in the theater, Ford, Jews carrying things bought at auction and Idyll. His recorded genre is genre.

Mykola Pymonenko is recorded as having received Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class and Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class.