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Mykhailo Andrіyovich Berkos ((ウクライナ語:Михайло Андрійович Беркос), 1861 in Odessa – 1919 in Kharkiv) was a Russian and Ukraine artist of Greek origin.〔 He worked mainly in the genre of landscape art and experienced a significant influence of European Impressionism.〔 He painted in oils and watercolors.〔 In his works he often turned to the subject of Ukrainian nature.〔 == Biography == Berkos was born on September 3, 1861 in Odessa.〔 His father Andrey Ignatievich Berkos, a subject of Greece, served in the firm ''Bellino Fender'', his mother Martha Ivanovna came from a Russian noble family.〔 The family lived in their house on Pushkinskaya.〔 Mykhailo Berkos first studied painting in Odessa Drawing School, graduating in 1877.〔 Then he continued his education at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he studied from 1878 to 1889 in the studio of Mikhail Clodt and Volodymyr Orlovsky.〔 He got a small and large silver medals (1884–1886), a small gold medal for the painting ''View of one of the oldest parks in St. Petersburg'' (1887), a gold medal for the painting ''Landscape. Forest in the swamp'' (1888).〔〔 During the holidays he came to Kharkiv with fellow artists and painted landscapes, in particular sketch ''Full poppies'' (1885).〔 In 1889 he graduated from the academy with the rank of first degree class artist and the right to travel abroad at public expense (pension).〔 From 1890 to 1893 Berkos as a pensioner of the Academy traveled by Europe, studying art of museums in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland.〔 He painted a lot, perfected his technique, was influenced by Impressionism and en plein air painting.〔 After the expiration of pension Berkos lived in St. Petersburg for some time and presented his paintings at exhibitions of societies of artists.〔〔 In the second half of the 1890s he moved to Kharkiv.〔 He lived in a suburb of Mala Danylivka with the General's widow Maria Reinicke.〔 There he wrote sketches, among which ''Greenhouses'' (1895) and ''Landscape with a Church'' (1897) have survived.〔 From 1904 he taught at the school of drawing in Kharkiv.〔 At the initiative of Berkos in 1912 the Kharkiv Art College was opened, where until 1917 he was one of the leading teachers.〔 Berkos put a lot of effort to enrich the collection of the first Museum of Art and Industry in Ukraine.〔 In the early 1900s he worked at the Kharkiv literary and artistic section.〔 As the chairman of the Society of Kharkiv Artists since 1906 he spent a great job of promoting Ukrainian art.〔 In 1907 he participated in the interiors decoration of the Poltava Zemstvo building in the Ukrainian Nouveau style.〔 In 1900 he was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.〔 Solo exhibitions of Berkos took place in 1906 and 1908 in Kharkiv, there also was an exhibition of works by Kharkiv artists Serhii Vasylkivsky and Mykhaylo Berkos in 1911 in Kiev.〔 He died of typhus on December 20, 1919 in Kharkiv.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mykhaylo Berkos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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