Ivan Soshenko

Ivan Soshenko
Portrait of Soshenko I.M. (sculptor Nicolai Shmatko)
Born
Іван Максимович Сошенко

2 June 1807
Bohuslav, Ukraine
Died18 July 1876
Korsun, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian
Known forPainting
MovementRomantic art.[1]

Ivan Maksymovych Soshenko (Ukrainian: Іван Максимович Сошенко, 2 June 1807 Bohuslav, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire — 18 July 1876 Korsun) was a Ukrainian painter.

Soshenko studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1834 to 1838, then taught painting in gymnasiums in Nizhyn from 1839 to 1846, Nemyriv from 1846 to 1856, and Kyiv. His work included portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and religious icons.[2]

In 1835, he met and befriended Taras Shevchenko.[3] Along with teaching him the use of watercolors,[4] Soshenko also introduced him to authors and painters Yevhen Hrebinka, Vasily Zhukovsky, Karl Briullov, and Alexey Venetsianov, and helped in the purchase Shevchenko's freedom from serfdom. Later, he helped Shevchenko to be admitted to the St Petersburg Academy of Arts.

Mykhailo Chaly published a biography of Soshenko in Kyiv in 1876.

References

  1. ^ Bohdan Kravtsiv, Danylo Husar Struk (1993). "Romanticism". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  2. ^ "Ivan Soshenko". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1993. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  3. ^ Lari Prokop. Taras Shevchenko biography Archived 2016-11-18 at the Wayback Machine at the Taras Shevchenko museum
  4. ^ Anna Reid. Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine . Westview Press, 2000. p 78
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