Nikolay Alexandrovich Sauerweid (; 1836–1866) was a Russian painter. He was the son of

Alexander Sauerweid Gottlob Alexander Sauerweid (; 19 February 1783 – 25 October 1844) was a Baltic German painter who taught battle painting at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. Biography In 1795, when Kurland was annexed by Russia, his family mo ...

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Biography

Nikolay Sauerweid studied in 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 ...

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. In 1857, he received a silver medal for his paintings ''Frenchmen storm Swartz reduit'' and ''

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kidnap a French sentry in moonlight night'' about the

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. In 1859 he graduated with a Small Gold Medal. His graduate work was '' Peter I stops his maraudering soldiers after taking

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in 1704''. In 1860 Sauerweid received the title of ''Academician of Battle Art'' for his painting '' Prince Repnin enters

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after the fall of the city in July 4, 1700''. The artist became interesting in

Genre works Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, ...

painting ''The Modest Moving from an apartment''. He also painted many

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting metho ...

illustrations to the novel ''Prince Serebryany'' by A. K. Tolstoy. In 1866 at the age of 30 Nikolay Sauerweid died.

Works

File:ZauerveydNA Petr1UsmirDA19.jpg, '' Peter I stops his marauding soldiers after taking Narva in 1704'' (1859) File:ZauerveydN KavalerAtakaGTG.jpg, Cavalry Attack

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sauerweid, Nikolay 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire War artists from the Russian Empire 1836 births 1866 deaths 19th-century war artists