Nikolai Sapunov
Nikolai Nikolaevich Sapunov (1880–1912) was a Russian painter and known as an artist in the Symbolist style.
Also recorded as Nikolaj Nikolaevič Sapunov · Nikolai Nikolaevich Sapunov · Nikolay Sapunov · Nikolaj Nikolaevic Sapunov
Nikolai Sapunov
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- Born
- 1880. · Moscow.
- Died
- 1912. · Zelenogorsk.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- still life.
- Movements
- Symbolism.
- Education
- Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin.
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Sapunov (1880–1912) was a Russian painter and known as an artist in the Symbolist style.
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Nikolai Sapunov studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Places of work recorded in the authority are Moscow, Italy and Saint Petersburg. Work by Nikolai Sapunov is recorded in the collections of Tretyakov Gallery and Russian Museum.
He was born in Moscow and studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan (1893–1901), and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1898–1901) under Kiseliov. He painted sets for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow based on the designs by Korovin (1901–1902), as well as for Moscow Art Theatre (from 1904), the sets and costumes for Meyerhold's 1906 production of Alexander Blok's The Puppet Show, and theatres of Vera Komissarzhevskaya and experimental Theatre of Alexandr Tairov. His best known paintings are still lifes with flowers and china. At the end of his life he began a series of ironic genre pictures, which he left unfinished, as he wished to go abroad. Nikolai Sapunov drowned in a boating accident in Terioki, Finland (now Zelenogorsk) at the age of 32. • Illustration — Flowers and Porcelain, still life, 1912
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1880
Nikolai Sapunov was born on 17 December 1880.
1912
Nikolai Sapunov died on 14 June 1912.
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What Nikolai Sapunov did, and where. Sapunov worked at Saint Petersburg. Sapunov worked at Moscow. Sapunov worked at Italy. Recorded as having studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. Associated with Symbolism.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Nikolaj Nikolaevič Sapunov, Nikolai Nikolaevich Sapunov, Nikolay Sapunov, Nikolaj Nikolaevic Sapunov and Nikolay Nikolayevich Sapunov. Formation and teaching. Sapunov studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin. Recorded as a citizen of Russian Empire. Recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre still life.
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