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Dmitry Kardovsky

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Portrait of Marya Anastasievna Chroustchova, 1900, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Dmitry Kardovsky (6 September 1866 - 9 February 1943) was a Russian artist, illustrator and stage designer.

He was born near Pereslavl-Zalessky in the Yaroslavl province. After studying law at Moscow University, he then studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg from 1892, under Pavel Chistyakov and Ilya Repin. Kardovsky moved to Munich in 1896 with Igor Grabar and studied at the private studio of Anton Ažbe. He returned to St Petersburg in 1900 and received his diploma from the Academy in 1902. He was appointed as professor of the Academy in 1907.

Kardovsky explored various styles, including Impressionism and Jugendstil, but was more concerned with faithful representation than formal experiment. From 1902, he was prolific as a book illustrator, and worked mainly on the Russian literary classics by Chekhov, Gogol, Lermontov and Tolstoy. He also dabbled with political caricature, providing illustrations for the radical journals Zhupel (Bugbear) and Adskaya pochta (Hellish Post) from 1905 to 1906.

He was an admirer of Mikhail Vrubel, whose posthumous exhibition he organized in 1912. Kardovsky died in Pereslavl-Zalessky in 1943.

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