Yelena Andreyevna Kiselyova (; - 8 July 1974) was a Russian painter. She was one of the main exponents of the post-impressionist genre in Russia . She is known for her passion for portraits and the figure of women.
Life
Kiselyova was born in
Voronezh
Voronezh ( ; , ) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects wes ...
on 27 October 1878. She was the daughter of mathematician
Andrey Kiselyov
Andrey Petrovich Kiselyov (; December 12, 1852 – November 8, 1940) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Ma ...
and Maria Eduardovna. Andrei Petrovich was a teacher at a Voronezh public educational institute. They opened a school for the poorest children on their Otrádnoye estate, which after the revolution was to become an orphanage. From 1922 the family lived in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
.
Kiselyova received private drawing lessons from
Mikhail Ponomarev
Michael is a common masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase ''mī kāʼēl'', 'Who slike-El', in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (''Mīkhāʼēl'' ). The theophoric name is often read as a rhetorical question – "Who slike he Hebrew Go ...
. She would later study at the city drawing school under the instruction of . She later studied at the Mariinskaya Women's High School and managed to graduate with a gold medal, to enter the
Bestuzhev courses
The Bestuzhev Courses () in Saint Petersburg were the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Imperial Russia.
The institute opened its doors in 1878. It was named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the first director ...
in Saint Petersburg.
She decided to study mathematics, but in 1898 she decided to dedicate herself to the artistic world and studied at the Superior School of Art of the
Imperial Academy of Arts
The Imperial Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov, the founder of the Imperial Moscow University, under the name ''Academy of th ...
. She would later study in the studio of
Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is today Ukraine. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russian Empire, Russia in the 19th century. His major works include ''Barge Haulers on the Volga' ...
. Kiselyova was a favorite student, so in 1903 she entrusted her work together with for a series of dioramas for the bicentennial of Saint Petersburg. In 1907, she studied in Paris.
After the
October Revolution
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, she lived in
Odessa
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. In February 1920, she emigrated to the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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, where her husband got a job at the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...
. In 1926 they received Yugoslav citizenship.
Further reading
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References
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1878 births
1974 deaths
20th-century Russian women artists
People from Voronezh
Imperial Academy of Arts alumni