Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Self-portrait, 1915
Born	Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky 6 December 1868 Shitiki, Smolensk Governorate
Died	19 February 1945(1945-02-19) (aged 76) Berlin
Nationality	Russian
Known for	Painting

Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Богда́нов-Бе́льский; 1868–1945) was a Russian painter.

Bogdanov-Belsky was born in the village of Shitiki in Smolensk Governorate in 1868. He studied art at the Semyon Rachinsky fine art school, icon-painting at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1883, modern painting at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1884 to 1889, and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1894 to 1895. He worked and studied in private studios in Paris in the late 1890s.

Bogdanov-Belsky was active in St. Petersburg. After 1921, he worked exclusively in Riga, Latvia. He became a member of several prominent societies in including the Peredvizhniki from 1895, and the Arkhip Kuindzhi Society from 1909 (of which he was a founding member and chairman from 1913 to 1918).

Bogdanov-Belsky painted mostly genre paintings, especially of the education of peasant children, portraits, and impressionistic landscapes studies. He became pedagogue and academician in 1903. He was an active Member of the Academy of Arts in 1914. Since 1921, he lived in Riga. Bogdanov-Belsky died in 1945 in Berlin.

He was a member of the Russian in Riga.

Nikolay Felixovich Yusupov, 1911

Reading a letter, 1892

Mental Arithmetic, in the Rachinsky School, 1895

Sunday reading in a village school, 1895

At the School Doors, 1897