Русский художник Сергей Сергеевич Соломко (1867 1928) - the artist Sergey S. Solomko (1867-1928)

Sergey S. Solomko (1867-1928) was a russian painter, watercolorist, and graphic artist. Member the St. Petersburg Association of Artists, whose works whimsically combine salon art and Art Nouveau style, in whose work the “ decadent “ artists of the association The “World of Art“ itself found the features of decadence. He was close to many modern trends and trends in the visual arts, but at the same time had his own well-recognized manner. The range of his creative interests is comparable to the artists of the Renaissance-he also worked in various fields. art forms (painting, drawing, sculpture, decorative and applied art, monumental painting) and very successfully. He was born in St. Petersburg in a family of hereditary noblemen. He was baptized in St. Isaac's Cathedral. His father was in the service of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. The artist spent his childhood in the Konstantinovsky Palace in the suburb of St. Petersburg — Strelna. He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Arc