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Moscow
1862-1958
Moscow
Vasilii
Nikolaevich Baksheev attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture,
and Architecture from 1877 to 1888, studying with E.S. Sorokin and A.K.
Savrasov as well as with V.D. Polenov and V.E. Makovskii. A resident of
Moscow, he joined the Circle of the Itinerants in 1896 and in 1922
became a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKHRR).
He taught at the Moscow School from 1894 to 1918 and in a number of
other art schools in Moscow during the 1930s and 1940s. Baksheev was
esteemed as a People's Artist of the Russia for his paintings of genre
scenes, portraits, and still lifes. After the Russian October 1917 Revolution,
Baksheev was considered a leading representative of the older
generation of Russian artists and was recognized ah a follower of
realist Russian art of the late nineteenth century. |
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