Gerico biography of the artist

In the year, Theodore was placed in the boarding school of the private boarding house Duboa-Liazo, and then his father transferred him to the boarding house Rena Rishara Castel. For about a year, Jeriko entered the Imperial Lyceum. Since childhood, the boy was addicted to equestrian sport and, already at sixteen, was a first -class rider. On July 1, Theodore left the Lyceum.

In years, he studied painting with K. Verne, and then studied at the workshop of P. Enete in years. Gerico served in the royal musketeers, so he wrote mainly battal scenes. His first big job, “Officer of the Horse Imperial Hoices during the attack,” was represented in the cabin in the year. The picture is full of pathos, it breathes the romance of the battle.

The picture attracted the attention of art circles. Gerico awarded a gold medal. From for a year he is engaged in the Louvre, copying the work of P. Rubens, V. Titian, D. Velazquez and H. in the GG. At the beginning of the year, Jeriko went to Italy. There, he studied and copied the antiques, the creations of Raphael and Michelangelo. It was written in the style of realism and became a complete denial of the David direction.

In an effort to present on the canvas the story of salvation in the sea of ​​people who suffered a shipwreck, the artist made many preparatory studies. Gerico works in the hospital, tirelessly writes the sick and the dead.

Giving a particular event a deep and historical meaning, Gerico reveals in the picture a complex gamut of human feelings - from complete despair and apathy to passionate hope of salvation. In the cabin of the year, the picture was noticed and quickly became one of the central exhibits of the exhibition. The novelty of the plot, the deep drama of the composition and the vital reliability of this masterfully written work were not immediately appreciated, but soon it received universal recognition and brought the artist the glory of a talented and brave innovator.

Gerico goes to England, where his main occupation was the study of horses. There he writes a great work of “jumps in the Epsom” a bright image of galloping horses created by Zheriko, gained enormous popularity, became a kind of classic canon. It undoubtedly makes the impression of speed, flight. In the spring of the year, Gerico returns to France with shaken health. Despite this, in a few months he manages to write several works.

Among them are the “lime furnace”, which Syglrahu had an important role in the development of a realistic landscape, as well as a series of portraits of the mentally ill, among them “Mad”, “obsessed with the mania of theft”. In February, he went to bed. Gerico died on January 26 of the year at the age of 33. The premature death prevented Jeriko to write the already conceived painting “Retreat of the French from Russia to”.