Sergey Yendogurov

Winter landscape

Sergey Ivanovich Yendogurov (Russian: Сергей Иванович Ендогуров; October 11, 1864, St. Petersburg - December 4, 1894, St. Petersburg) was a Russian landscape painter and watercolor painter attached to the Neoclassicist current. His brother Ivan was also a well-known landscape painter. Biography

His father, Ivan Yendogurov (1812-1871) was a Rear Admiral of the Russian Imperial Navy. His mother was the daughter of Admiral Fyodor Yuriev (1783-1856). While attending the gym, he and his brother became acquainted with landscaper, Yefim Volkov, who stimulated his interest in art.

Unlike Ivan, Sergey never had a formal artistic background. He attended the Russian Naval Academy in 1884 and became an officer. From 1885 to 1888, he was a member of the crew at the "Vestnik" (Herald) clerk serving in the Pacific.

During that time, he self-taught learned watercolor painting, and when he retired from service, he became a member of the "Society of Russian Watercolorists", painting a large number of scenes representing the places he visited while in service.

He died of tuberculosis in 1894, the same disease that would kill his brother four years later. In 1899, his mother endowed a fund at the Imperial Academy of Arts to establish the "Yendogurov Prize" for landscape painting. This award lasted until 1917.

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