A cozy summer day. Sumptuous trees are spreading their branches near a calm river surface; small stones are scattered on the sandy bank, and snow-white curly clouds are hurrying somewhere in the bright blue sky to attend their own business; a boat with a slightly lowered sail and dimly seen human figures in it. What you see is a Landscape by Pavel Pavlovich Dzhogin, a brilliant and original artist, Academician of landscape painting.
Art critics often compare Pavel Dzhogin to Ivan Aivazovsky and Lev Lagorio placing the artist close to the circle of renowned seascape painters. Dzhogin’s harmonious landscapes unwittingly immerse the viewer into a warm and colorful atmosphere. With its soft and enchanting color scheme and skillfully captured details the painting makes one stop and linger in front of it filled with a sudden feeling of complete oneness with the Russian natural environment, and lose oneself in philosophical thought about the beauty of the surrounding nature.
Pavel Dzhogin was born in the province of Chernigov. Upon finishing local secondary school, the young man moved to St. Petersburg and enrolled in Professor Vorobyev’s class at the Imperial Academy of Arts. His works were regularly exhibited at annual exhibitions – he painted the suburbs of St. Petersburg and landscapes of his native Chernigov and Novgorod provinces.
For his academic diligence and undeniable talent Dzhogin was awarded two gold medals, the big and small ones. Upon graduation he married and continued painting as a member of the St. Petersburg Partnership of Painters in the status of an Academician of landscape painting. Regretfully, his weak character and misfortunes in personal and professional life prevented the artist from realizing his potential to the full.
The last ten years of his life the artist worked primarily for magazines using conventional technique and hackneyed subjects. Occasionally, Pavel Dzhogin’s canvases found their way to exhibitions and delighted the viewers with auspicious combinations of shades and well-balanced compositions. The artist died in 1885 in abject poverty from throat cancer. In our time, Pavel Dzhogin’s canvases are on permanent display in various museums and galleries in Russia and former CIS countries. They are held in the Hermitage and Tretyakov Gallery collections. In 2012, the Bonhams auction house put the River Landscape by Pavel Dzhogin to auction and it was sold for 99,000 GBP.
Art critics often compare Pavel Dzhogin to Ivan Aivazovsky and Lev Lagorio placing the artist close to the circle of renowned seascape painters. Dzhogin’s harmonious landscapes unwittingly immerse the viewer into a warm and colorful atmosphere. With its soft and enchanting color scheme and skillfully captured details the painting makes one stop and linger in front of it filled with a sudden feeling of complete oneness with the Russian natural environment, and lose oneself in philosophical thought about the beauty of the surrounding nature.
Pavel Dzhogin was born in the province of Chernigov. Upon finishing local secondary school, the young man moved to St. Petersburg and enrolled in Professor Vorobyev’s class at the Imperial Academy of Arts. His works were regularly exhibited at annual exhibitions – he painted the suburbs of St. Petersburg and landscapes of his native Chernigov and Novgorod provinces.
For his academic diligence and undeniable talent Dzhogin was awarded two gold medals, the big and small ones. Upon graduation he married and continued painting as a member of the St. Petersburg Partnership of Painters in the status of an Academician of landscape painting. Regretfully, his weak character and misfortunes in personal and professional life prevented the artist from realizing his potential to the full.
The last ten years of his life the artist worked primarily for magazines using conventional technique and hackneyed subjects. Occasionally, Pavel Dzhogin’s canvases found their way to exhibitions and delighted the viewers with auspicious combinations of shades and well-balanced compositions. The artist died in 1885 in abject poverty from throat cancer. In our time, Pavel Dzhogin’s canvases are on permanent display in various museums and galleries in Russia and former CIS countries. They are held in the Hermitage and Tretyakov Gallery collections. In 2012, the Bonhams auction house put the River Landscape by Pavel Dzhogin to auction and it was sold for 99,000 GBP.
