Anton Losenko
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Anton (Pavlovich) Losenko
(b Glukhov, Ukraine, 30 July 1737; d St Petersburg, 23 Nov 1773). Ukrainian painter, active in Russia. He trained (1753-8) under Ivan Argunov, and from 1758 he was a student at the recently founded Academy of Art in St Petersburg, where he later taught. From 1760 to 1769 he spent time in Paris, where he studied at the Acad?mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture under Jean Reteux (1692-1768) and Joseph-Marie Vien. He then studied in Rome. In Moscow in 1763 he participated in preparing the coronation ceremonies on the accession of Catherine II.
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Anton Losenko
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| Birth name | Антон Павлович Лосенко |
| Born | 10 August 1737 |
| Died | 4 December 1773 |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Field | Historical subjects and portraits |
| Movement | Neoclassicism |
Anton Pavlovich Losenko (Cyrillic Антон Павлович Лосенко) (10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1737 — 4 December [O.S. 23 November] 1773) was a Ukrainian neoclassical painter and academician who lived in Imperial Russia and who specialized in historical subjects and portraits. He was one of the founders of the Imperial Russian historical movement in painting.[1][2]
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Life and work
Anton Losenko was born to the family of a Ukrainian cossack in Hlukhiv, in the region of Chernihivshchyna (now in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine). He became an orphan and at the age of seven was sent to a Court Choir in Saint Petersburg. In 1753, as he had lost his voice but had shown talent for painting, he was sent for apprenticeship to the artist Ivan Argunov. After five and a half years of apprenticeship, he was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1759. Among the paintings he created there was the Portrait of Ivan Shuvalov (1760) and the Portrait of Alexander Sumarokov (1760).[1]
In 1760, the Academy sent him to Paris to study art under the French neoclassical painter Jean II Restout. There he painted a large painting based on the New Testament story of the miraculous catch of fish. In 1766-1769 Losenko worked in Rome,[2] studying Italian art, especially the paintings of Rafael. There he created his two paintings of Kain and Abel.[1]
In 1769, Losenko returned to Saint-Petersburg. He received an offer to present a historical painting as a way of receiving Academician status in the Imperial Academy of Arts.[3] From an episode of Kievan Rus' history, he painted his classical canvas of Volodymyr and Rohnida.[2] This painting not only brought him the title of Academician but also a professorship position at the Imperial Academy (initially, in 1770, an adjunct-professor, but from 1772 a full professor and director of the Academy). While in this position Losenko wrote a text book called "Short Explanation of the Human Proportions" that served a few generations of painters in the Russian Empire. He worked as the Director of the Academy until his death in 1773. He died in poverty.[1]
Recognition and impact
Anton Losenko is regarded as one of the founders of the Imperial Russian historical movement in painting and together with his textbook (which was used until the mid 19 Century), he influenced the education of art in the Russian Empire.[1] The painters Ivan Akimov and Mikhail Kozlovsky studied under him.
Losenko was one of the painters honoured by having his work appear on Soviet postage stamps, with his Portrait of Fyodor Volkov appearing in 1972.
Portraits
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Ivan Shuvalov (1760)
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Alexander Sumarokov (1760)
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Actor Ya. D. Shumsky (1760)
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Fyodor Volkov (1763)
Neoclassical works
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Miraculous Catch (1762)
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Abel (1768)
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Volodymyr and Rohnida (1770)
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Farewell of Hector and Andromache (1773)
Notes and references
- ^ a b c d e "ЛОСЕНКО Антон Павлович", in Енциклопедія історії України ("Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine"), available online (Ukrainian)
- ^ a b c "Лосенко", in Словник Художників України ("Dictionary of Ukrainian Artists"), published by Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia — Кyіv 1973 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Антон Павлович Лосенко (1737-1773) (Russian)
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