Sergey Solomko
Russian-French painter
Sergey Sergeyevich Solomko (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Соломко; 22 August 1867 – 2 February 1928) was a Russian painter, watercolorist, illustrator and designer.
Life and work
He was the son of Colonel (later, Major-General) Sergey Solomko (1835-1897), who was employed in the service of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich, and he grew up in the Konstantinovsky Palace.
From 1883 to 1887, he attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture then, for a year, audited classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Around this time, he began work as a magazine illustrator. His first known work of this type was for Север (North) a weekly literary journal that began publication in 1888. Shortly after, he was employed by Нива (Grainfield), which was Russia's most popular magazine at the end of the 19th century. He also worked for Мир искусства (World of Art) and a satirical journal called Шут (The Fool).
In the 1890s, he worked for Aleksey Suvorin, providing illustrations for stories by Pushkin and Chekhov and the poem The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov by Lermontov. In 1901, he was one of several artists who illustrated a special edition of Dead Souls by Gogol, published by Adolf Marks. He also designed theater posters and a popular series of postcards depicting old Russia, published by Maison Lapine of Paris.
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