Stanislav Zhukovsky

Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (Станислав Юлианович Жуковский) was born in Yendrikhovtsy, Grodno province, in 1875. A student of Isaac Levitan and graduate of the Moscow School of Painting, he became a celebrated painter associated with the Impressionist movement. He established his own art studio in Moscow, in which he mentored many painters, most notably Liubov Popova. He was dedicated to landscape painting. His fondness for lavish scenery and wealthy estates left him suspect in the Bolshevik era, and in 1923 he moved from Russia to his ancestral homeland of Poland. During World War II, he was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Prushkov concentration camp, where he died in 1944.

The surname Жуковский has been transliterated to English in multiple forms, and appears in different texts as Zhukovski, Zhukovskii, Zukovsky, and Zukowski, among others.

References

*Eickel, Nancy, ed. "Russia, The Land, The People: Russian Painting 1850-1910". Smithsonian Inst., Washington DC, 1986.
* Kruglov, Vladimir and Lenyashin, Vladimir. "Russian Impressionism". State Russian Museum/Palace Editions, St. Petersburg, 2000.