Arkhip Kuindzhi
Arkhip Kuindzhi (1841-1910) was a landscape painter born in Mariupol, Ukraine. He spent his childhood in Taganrog and lost his parents when he was six. He was engaged in art at an early age and became interested in color studies, collaborating with chemist Dmitry Mendeleev. Kuindzhi was mainly self-taught, although he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He was a co-partner of the traveling art exhibitions, a group of realist artists of the Russian Empire, which later evolved into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions. Kuindzhi's notable works include Evening in Ukraine (1878-1901) and Night on the Dnepr (1882).
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