Ignotas Mauricijus Ščedrauskas (1815 - 1871)
1815-09-15Raseiniai, Russian Empire1871-01-06Moscow, Russian EmpireLithuania, Poland, Russia, Russian Empire
Ignotas Mauricijus Ščedrauskas
Ignotas Mauricijus Ščedrauskas (Russian: Игнатий Степанович Щедровский) was a mid-nineteenth-century Russian artist of Polish-Lithuanian origin. He is known as a painter, draughtsman, and lithographer.
Ignotas Ščedrauskas is considered an outstanding genre painter of the natural school, close to the Venetsianov school. He worked mainly in lithography and also painted genre pictures from the life of Russian people, mainly craftsmen. In his works of this genre the artist sought to reliably convey scenes of urban life and social characteristics of urban types. The master also created landscapes, mostly of the Vilna region of Lithuania.
Date and place of birt: | 15 september 1815, Raseiniai, Russian Empire |
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Date and place of death: | 6 january 1871, Moscow, Russian Empire |
Nationality: | Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Russian Empire |
Period of activity: | XIX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Draftsman, Genre painter, Graphic artist, Landscape painter, Painter |
Genre: | Genre art, Landscape painting |
Art style: | Academism, Realism, Romanticism |