07.02.1846 – 21.02.1920

Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky is a Russian artist, a bright representative and one of the leaders of the Association of Traveling Exhibitions. The brother of the artists of Constantine and Nikolai Makovsky.

He was born in a creative family. Mother had a beautiful voice, she taught at the Moscow Conservatory. His father is an artist, collector, musician, one of the founders of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, in which Vladimir Egorovich began his teaching of artistry. For his studies and after studying, he received many awards, medals and awards.

Vladimir Makovsky is a recognized master of the “small genre”. Maximum his talent manifested in the depiction of genre scenes, he was called an artist-novelist. Looking at each of his paintings, the viewer sees a whole story, including not only the pictured moment, but the preceding and subsequent events. His small stories, small paintings on household themes are remarkable for their warmth and humanity.

Beginning in the mid-seventies and especially in the eighties of the 19th century, V. Makovsky began to pay more attention to work in the air. And although the landscape itself does not occupy a large place in Makovsky’s work, work on the air played a big role in the development of his pictorial mastery. His genre compositions in the landscape under sunlight have a special artistic value.

By the end of the 1870s, in a relatively short time, V. Makovsky from the beginning artist became a recognized master.

In 1882, V. Makovsky accepts the invitation to take the place of a senior teacher at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, replacing the deceased V.G. Perov. Twelve years, during which he taught at the Moscow School, were the period of the artist’s highest success, creative audacity, courage of thought, maturity of mastery.

Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky died on February 21, 1920, leaving behind about one and a half thousand paintings, many of which are currently represented in the most famous museums.