Alexander Vasilievich Gine (; 1830 – June 3, 1880) was a Russian painter.

Biography

Alexander Gine came from a noble family. He studied at the

Kazan Gymnasium Kazan Gymnasium was a gymnasium of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. It is notable for its alumnus, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, who graduated from the school in 1807. Other notable alumni include Ivan Shishkin, a Russian landscape artist, and Gavri ...

, together with

Ivan Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (; – ) was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist, one of the most famous landscape painters of the post-reform era, and the creator of the iconic painting '' Morning in a Pine Forest''. He was an academician ...

. From 1854 to 1856, the artist studied at the

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (), also known by the acronym MUZHVZ, was one of the largest educational institutions in Russia. The school was formed by the 1865 merger of a private art college, established in Moscow ...

under Sokrat Vorobyov. Gine died on the night of June 3, 1880 in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...

in extreme poverty and was buried at the Malookhtinsky cemetery. His artworks are in public museum collections, including the

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Muscovite merchant Pavel ...

, the

Pushkin Museum The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (, abbreviated as , ''GMII'') is the largest museum of European art in Moscow. It is located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Sviatos ...

, and the

State Russian Museum The State Russian Museum (), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in ...

Gallery

1864. Александр Гине. Святогорский монастырь в Харьковской губернии.jpg Gine Stormy seas.jpg

References

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Gine Alexander Vasilievich.
1830 births 1880 deaths 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Male painters from the Russian Empire 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni {{Russia-painter-stub