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Mikhail Sazhin (painter)

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Painter (1818–1885)
Mikhail Makarovich Sazhin
A painting of people praying in front of the altar screen of Saint Sophia's CathedralSaint Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv
Born1818
Galich
Died1885(1885-00-00) (aged 66–67)
Omsk
Alma materImperial Academy of Arts

Mikhail Makarovich Sazhin (Russian: Михаил Макарович Сажин), born in 1818 in Galich and deceased in 1885 in Omsk, was a Russian landscape painter.

Life

Sazhin studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1834 until 1840, and became a member of the academy in 1855. In 1844, he moved to Ukraine, and in Kyiv in 1846 he began working with Taras Shevchenko, whom he probably knew from Saint Petersburg.

Some of his works are kept in the Shevchenko House Museum [uk] in Kyiv where they worked together. Others are held in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and in the National Museum in Warsaw. A street in Kyiv was named in his honour in 1962.

Works

His works are essentially landscapes mixing the urban and rural in a picturesque perspective. They offer interesting and unexpected views of the city of Kyiv and the neighbourhood of Podil from the surrounding hills before the widespread adoption of photography.

References

  1. "САЖИН". leksika.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  2. "Головна". Музей Шевченка (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  3. ^ "Сажин Михайло Макарович". Енциклопедія Києва (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
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