Tag: Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of Ivan Pavlov – 1930

Mikhail Nesterov – The Philosophers: Portrait of Sergei Bulgakov and Pavel Florenskiy – 1917

Mikhail Nesterov – Solovki – 1917

Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of Natasha Nestarova (On a Garden Bench) – 1914

Mikhail Nesterov – A Little Fox – 1914

Mikhail Nesterov – Portait of Leo Tolstoy – 1907

Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of Ekaterina Nestarova – 1905

Mikhail Nesterov – Harmony Concord – 1905

Mikhail Nesterov – Maxim Gorky – 1901

Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of a Girl – 1890

Mikhail Nesterov – The Hermit – 1889

Mikhail Nesterov – For the love potion – 1888

Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of M. Nestarova (1st wife) – 1886

Mikhail Nesterov – Home Arrest – 1883

Infogalactic: 

Mikhail Nesterov was a pupil of Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki. His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890–91), depicting the conversion of medieval Russian Saint Sergei Radonezhsky, is often considered to be the earliest example of the Russian Symbolist style.rom 1890 to 1910, Nesterov lived in Kiev and Saint Petersburg, working on frescoes in St. Vladimir’s Cathedral and the Church on Spilt Blood, respectively. After 1910, he spent the remainder of his life in Moscow, working in the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent. As a devout Orthodox Christian, he did not accept the Bolshevik Revolution but remained in Russia until his death, painting the portraits of Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Pavlov, Ksenia Derzhinskaya,^[1] Otto Schmidt, and Vera Mukhina, among others.

This artist falls into the category of, “I don’t know much about him, but I know what I like.” These are mostly people pictures; later on I will put up a selection of his religious work.