Aleksandr Makovsky

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Aleksandr Vladimirovich Makovsky (Russian: Александр Владимирович Маковский; 1869- 1924) was a Russian painter. He was born in Moscow, the son of the artist Vladimir Makovsky. and from 1894-5 studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg. He also studied in Moscow's College of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. During the 1890's he was an active member in MTKh and was part of the Itinerant Movement from 1902, having begun exhibiting with them since 1899. He would continue exhibiting with the Itinerants until 1922, during which time he began teaching at the Imperial Academy of Arts (in 1898) and there became a full academic (in 1911). In 1924, he began exhibiting with another artists' group, the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), but died shortly thereafter.

Woman, 1892	Woman	Ryy, 1896	Monastery in the North, 1912
On an apiary, 1916