Nikolay Sauerweid

Russian painter

Nikolay Sauerweid
Николай Александрович Зауервейд
Born	1836 Saint Petersburg
Died	May 29, 1866(1866-05-29) (aged 29–30) Saint Petersburg
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1860)
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts
Known for	Painting

Nikolay Alexandrovich Sauerweid (Russian: Николай Александрович Зауервейд; 1836–1866) was a painter from the Russian Empire; son of Alexander Sauerweid^[1]

Nikolay Sauerweid studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1857, he received a silver medal for his paintings Frenchmen storm Swartz reduit and Cossacks kidnap a French sentry in moonlight night about the Napoleonic Wars. In 1859 he graduated with a Small Gold Medal. His graduate work was Peter I stops his maraudering soldiers after taking Narva in 1704.^[1]

In 1860 Sauerweid received the title of Academician of Battle Art for his painting Prince Repnin enters Riga after the fall of the city in July 4, 1700. The artist became interesting in Genre works painting The Modest Moving from an apartment. He also painted many watercolor illustrations to the novel Prince Serebryany by A. K. Tolstoy.^[1]

In 1866 at the age of 30 Nikolay Sauerweid died.

Works

Peter I stops his marauding soldiers after taking Narva in 1704 (1859)
Cavalry Attack

References

^ ^a ^b ^c A. Yu Astakhov 1000 Russian Artists ISBN 978-5-7793-1000-0. article available online as [1] (in Russian) Archived November 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

External links

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)