Pyotr Nilus
Illustration — Woman Look at Seine River in Paris • Illustration — Pyotr Nilus. 1893 Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus (20 February 1869 – 23 May 1943) was a Russian and Ukrainian impressionist painter and writer. Pyotr was born in Baltsky Uyezd, Government of Podolia, in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).
Also recorded as Peter Alexandrovich Nilus · Pyotr A. Nilus · Petr Aleksandrovich Nilus · Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus
Pyotr Nilus
Pyotr Nilus · Public domain
- Born
- 1869 · Podolia Governorate.
- Died
- 1943 · Paris.
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- Russian Empire
- Occupation
- painter · writer · art critic
- Fields
- painting · creative and professional writing · art criticism
- Education
- Hrekov Odesa Art school
- Languages
- Russian · Ukrainian · French
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Illustration — Woman Look at Seine River in Paris • Illustration — Pyotr Nilus. 1893 Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus (20 February 1869 – 23 May 1943) was a Russian and Ukrainian impressionist painter and writer. Pyotr was born in Baltsky Uyezd, Government of Podolia, in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).
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1869
Pyotr Nilus born at Podolia Governorate.
1943
Pyotr Nilus died at Paris.
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His grandfather took part in the Patriotic War of 1812. There has been some confusion about the origin of the surname "Nilus" in Russia. This was primarily in the context of mystic Sergei Nilus, publisher of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russia. Sergei's ancestry was variously reported as Swedish or Swiss (but more recent research has shown that he was of Livonian extraction), and Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch has claimed that the painter Pyotr Nilus was related to Sergei Nilus. At the age of seven Pyotr moved to Odessa where he studied at the local Peter and Paul real school and attended art classes of Kyriak Kostandi. Then he attended the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and participated in exhibitions of Peredvizhniki. In contrast to "antisemite" Sergei Nilus, Pyotr Nilus married a Jewess, one Berta Solomonovna, and in 1906 together with Korney Chukovsky he also participated in at literary and artistic collection for the benefit of "Jewish children who were orphaned during the October pogrom in Odessa". During the Russian Civil War, in 1920, he emigrated to Paris where he worked until his death in 1943. A friend of Aleksandr Kuprin and Ivan Bunin. For the first years in Paris they lived in the same house. They led an intensive correspondence; there were published more than one hundred letters of Pyotr Nilus to Bunin.
Pyotr Nilus studied at Hrekov Odesa Art school. The recorded working language is Russian, Ukrainian and French. The field of work recorded is painting, creative and professional writing and art criticism. Work by Pyotr Nilus is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Warsaw.
• Illustration — On the Beach • Illustration — After the Rain • Illustration — Three Women in the Park • Illustration — Footman (Morning)
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- 1.Son nom est parfois transcrit en français « Nilus » ou « Nilouss », et son prénom, francisé en « Pierre ».
- 2.État civil. archives.paris.fr. 18/31.
- 3.Michael Hagemeister, « Wer war Sergej Nilus ? », Ostkirchliche Studien, , 1991, .
- 4.Savva Dudakov, That Nilus and the other, Lehaim, (en ligne).
- 5.Contribution à l'étude de l'art pictural ukrainien. Revue des études slaves. 501. 1982.
- 6.Ambulants. oneartyminute.com.
- 7.La Vie artistique. Le Figaro. 2. 10 février 1926.
- 8.Exposition rétrospective : Hommage à Pierre Nilouss : 1869-1943 : [Exposition] du 29 juin au 8 septembre 1985.
- 9.Pierre Nilouss : 1869-1943 : [Exposition] du 17 avril au 24 mai 1986, Wally Findlay Galleries, Paris. 466498875.
- 10.Hommage to Pierre Nilouss (1869-1943): retrospective exhibition, post-impressionist paintings: July 7 through August 1988. 84203445.
- 11.Petr Alexandrovich Nilus (Slovetsky). arthive.com.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Peter Alexandrovich Nilus, Pyotr A. Nilus, Petr Aleksandrovich Nilus, Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus and Pierre Nilouss. His recorded languages were Russian, Ukrainian and French. Nilus worked in painting, creative and professional writing and art criticism. He belonged to Society of South Russian Artists.
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