Nikolai Sapunov was a vivid and original Russian artist of the turn of the XIX and XX centuries. He was one of the founders of Blue Rose - the association of symbolist painters who ‘aspired towards transcendental, other-worldly.’ Modern researchers call Sapunov a major figure in the Russian pre-avant-garde art.
Nikolai Sapunov lived an eventful but short life. He died in an accident: in the summer of 1912 during a sea cruise along the Gulf of Finland in Teriok near St.-Petersburg the crowded boat transporting a noisy bohemian company keeled over and Sapunov drowned.
Nikolai Sapunov lived an eventful but short life. He died in an accident: in the summer of 1912 during a sea cruise along the Gulf of Finland in Teriok near St.-Petersburg the crowded boat transporting a noisy bohemian company keeled over and Sapunov drowned.
