Georgij Lukomskij Biography
Georgij Kreskent'evič Lukomskij (Kaluga, March 1884 - Nice, 5 March 1952) was an architect, painter, watercolourist, art critic and architectural historian. Son of an engineer, he studies drawing in Ja's class. S. Gol'dbladt in Petersburg. After trying to access the Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, he enrolled at the Kazan School of Art. Since 1903 he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts. In recent years he periodically traveled to Europe, visiting Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany and Poland; at home he dedicated himself to the study of the most ancient Russian cities. In 1907 he moved to Moscow, where he worked in the studio of Konstantin Fedorovič Juon. In November 1909 he exhibited for the first time at Sergej Makovsky's Salon and presented a solo show at the editorial staff of «Apollon». In the same magazine, his Italian-themed sketches and drawings accompany Aleksandr Blok's Stichi iz Italii (1910, no. 4). There are several exhibitions in which he is involved at home and abroad (international exhibition in Brussels, Russian art exhibition in Paris in 1910). In the 1910s he published a series of volumes dedicated to the architecture and monuments of various Russian cities, including Kostroma and Voronezh; he collaborates with various magazines and newspapers: «Apollon», «Stolica i usad'ba», «Zodchij» and others. Between 1913 and 1914 he held a series of architecture lessons in Vologda and together with local scholars he prepared the volume Vologda v ee starine.
