Stanislav Zhukovsky

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Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (Polish: Stanisław Żukowski, {{langx|ru|Станислав Юлианович Жуковский}}; 1873–1944) was a Polish-Russian painter,{{Cite book |title=Russia, The Land, The People: Russian Painting 1850–1910 |editor-last=Eickel |editor-first=Nancy |year=1986 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |location=Washington DC |isbn=0-295-96439-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/russialandpeople0000unse |url-access=registration }} and a member of Mir iskusstva.{{cite journal|last=Bornstein|first=Eli |author-link=Eli Bornstein|title=The Structurist, Issues 15–20|journal=The Structurist |year=1975|publisher=Wittenborn and Co|location=New York|page=80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1tGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Stanislav+Zhukovsky%22 |issn=0081-6027}}

Life

Zhukovsky was born in Yendrikhovtsy (Jędrzychowice), Grodno Province. He was a student of Isaac Levitan and a graduate of the Moscow School of Painting. Zhukovsky became a celebrated landscapist working in a unique style which projected impressionistic methods and skills as well as his interpretation of the tradition of the Russian realist school. He established his own art studio in Moscow where he mentored students, including later to become a celebrated avantgardist Liubov Popova{{Cite book |title=Concise dictionary of women artists |last=Gaze |first=Delia |year=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=Chicago |isbn=1-57958-335-0 |page=539 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BCduKb-ujO8C&q=stanislav+zhukovsky&pg=PA539 |access-date=2011-01-12 }} and a young Vladimir Mayakovsky who was then working as a poster artist.

As a painter, Zhukovsky left a legacy from capturing Russian landscapes and pre-revolutionary sites and the interior of Russian estate houses. His social predisposition left him skeptical of the Bolshevik revolution,{{Cite web |url=http://www.belygorod.ru/preface/15433.php?idSer1=966&idSer2=980& |title=Stanislav Zhukovsky |author=Belygorod.ru |publisher=Bely Gorod Publishing |access-date=2011-02-17 }} and in 1923 he left Soviet Union for his ancestral homeland Poland, then already an independent country.

After the German occupation of Poland during World War II, he was arrested by the Nazis and held at the prisoner transit camp (Durchgangslager) at Pruszków, where he eventually died in 1944.{{Cite book |title=Russian Impressionism |last=Kruglov |first=Vladimir |author2=Lenyashin, Vladimir |year=2000 |publisher=State Russian Museum/Palace Editions |location=St. Petersburg |isbn=0-8109-6714-6 }}