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All Nikolai Ge 's Paintings
The Painting Names Are Sorted From A to Z


ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
59002  
Alexander Herzen, Nikolai Ge
 
 Alexander Herzen   Alexander Herzen, 1864
59000  
Carrara, Nikolai Ge
 
 Carrara   Carrara
58996  
Christ praying in Gethsemane, Nikolai Ge
 
 Christ praying in Gethsemane   Christ praying in Gethsemane, 1888
58999  
Head of Jesus. Preparation for The Crucifixion., Nikolai Ge
 
 Head of Jesus. Preparation for The Crucifixion.   Head of Jesus. Preparation for The Crucifixion. 1893
59003  
Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof,, Nikolai Ge
 
 Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof,   Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, 1871
58998  
Quod Est Veritas Christ and Pilate, Nikolai Ge
 
 Quod Est Veritas Christ and Pilate   Quod Est Veritas Christ and Pilate
58994  
The Last Supper, Nikolai Ge
 
 The Last Supper   The Last Supper, 1861

Nikolai Ge
1831 C 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1894) was a Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. Nikolai Ge was born in Voronezh to a Russian noble family of French origin. His grandfather emigrated to Russia in the 18th century. His parents died when he was still a child, so Nikolai was raised by his serf nurse. He graduated from the First Kiev Gymnasium and studied at the physics-mathematics department of Kiev University and Saint Petersburg University. In 1850 he gave up his career in science and entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He studied in academy under the historical painter Pyotr Basin until 1857. He graduated from the academy in 1857 with a gold medal for his painting The Witch of Endor Calling Up the Spirit of the Prophet Samuel. According to Ge himself, during that period he was strongly influenced by Karl Brullov. His gold medal provided him a scholarship for studying abroad . He visited Germany, Switzerland, France and in 1860 settled in Italy. In Rome he met Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov who strongly influenced Ge. In 1861 Ge painted The Last Supper; in 1863 he took the painting with him to Saint Petersburg. Ge found his own interpretation of the classical subject ?? he emphasized the motif of discord among those who had formerly shared the same views. The painting (bought by Tsar Alexander II of Russia) made so strong impression that Ge was made a professor of Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1864 he returned to Florence where he became a friend of a major Russian pro-Western writer and thinker Alexander Herzen and painted his portrait. The same year he also painted Messengers of the Resurrection and the first version of the Christ on the Mount of Olives.



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