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(rus. doref.: Nikolay Kornilievich Pimonenko, ukr. Mikola Kornilovich Pimonenko; March 9 (21), 1862, Kiev (on the Priorka), Kiev Province, Russian Empire - March 26 (April 8), 1912, Kiev, Russian Empire) was a Russian-Ukrainian genre painter, academician of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions.
Nikolay Pimonenko was born in the suburb of Kiev — Priorka, in the family of a philistine, woodcarver, owner of the icon-painting workshop Kornili Danilovich Pimonenko. He studied icon painting at the icon painting school at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, where in 1876 he was noticed by Nikolai Ivanovich Murashko, the founder and director of the Kiev Drawing School.
Murashko, appreciating the undoubted talent of the boy, persuaded the patron of the Kiev Drawing School, N. I. Tereshchenko, to accept Pimonenko to school for free. He studied in the class of Joseph-Kazimir Budkevich and Khariton Platonov. In 1880, in his second year of study, Pimonenko was recognized as the best student and enrolled in the school staff as a tutor. In 1882, he graduated from school with the title of drawing teacher.
In the autumn of 1882, he passed exams and entered the Imperial Academy of Arts as a free listener. He studied in the workshop of Vladimir Donatovich Orlovsky, whose daughter Pimonenko later married. He was awarded two small and one large silver medal of the Academy "For success in drawing".
In 1884, due to poor health and at the insistence of doctors, he left the Academy and, returning to Kiev, entered the position of senior lecturer at the Kiev Drawing School, where he taught until 1901, when the school ceased to exist.
He took part in the organization of the Kiev Art School, which was under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Academy of Arts. State Councilor, from 1900 until the end of his life he taught graphics at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II.
In the years 1885-1887 in the work of Nikolai Kornilovich, there was an insistent search for his theme and ways to write it. At this time, his paintings "After the auction", "On Vacation" and others appear at academic exhibitions. And since the end of the 1880s, the primary theme of his work has been the image of the life of the Ukrainian village. His famous painting "Yule Divination", which was exhibited at the academic exhibition in 1888, was a great success. Art critics highly appreciated this canvas.
In 1891, for the paintings "Wedding in the Kiev Province" and "The Morning of the Resurrection of Christ" exhibited at the academic exhibition, N. K. Pimonenko received the title of honorary freeman of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
On January 1, 1897, for the images of St. Nicholas and St. Alexandra in the Kiev Cathedral of St. Vladimir, he was awarded the Order of St. Anna III degree by the emperor.
Participated in international exhibitions in Berlin, Paris, London and Munich. In 1909, for the painting "Hopak" Pimonenko was awarded the gold medal of the Salon de Paris. Societies of French Artists. The painting, which was a great success, was acquired by the Louvre. Member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (since 1899), the Association of South Russian Artists, the Society of Munich Artists and the Paris International Union of Art and Literature.
In 1904, N. K. Pimonenko was awarded the honorary title of Academician of Painting by the Council of the Imperial Academy of Arts "for fame in the artistic field".
After a serious illness, Pimonenko died on March 26, 1912. He was buried at the Lukyanovsky Cemetery in Kiev.
In 1913, a posthumous exhibition of the artist was held at the Imperial Academy of Arts, which exhibited 184 paintings, 419 sketches and 112 pencil drawings.
- Zatenatsky Ya. P. Nikolay Kornilovich Pimonenko: life and work 1862-1912. - Kiev: Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR; Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography., 1955. - 110 p.
- Ogievskaya I. V. Nikolay Pimonenko: Album = Mikola Pimonenko: Album. - Kiev: Mystetstvo, 1983. - 107 p— - 22,000 copies.
- Painting. Vladimir Orlovsky, Nikolay Pimonenko = Painting. Vladimir Orlovsky, Mikola Pimonenko. - Khmelnitsky: Artania Nova. Gallery, 2008. - 192 p— - ISBN 966-8914-03-1.
- In 1952, a marble memorial plaque, architect M. M. Govdenko, was installed at the house No. 28 on Gogolevskaya Street in Kiev (the former estate of V. D. Orlovsky), where the artist lived and worked from 1883 to 1912.
- In 1959, one of the streets in the Shevchenko district of Kiev (formerly Monastyrskaya Street) was named after Nikolai Pimonenko.
- In 1997, the museum of N. K. Pimonenko (a branch of the Boyar Museum of Local Lore), built by the villagers, was opened in the village of Malyutyanka, Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district, Kiev region.
- N. K. Pimonenko's painting "Home" caused a scandal among the Wanderers. The painting without the artist's permission became the prototype of the vodka label "Spotykach", produced by the vodka manufacturer Shustov. The wanderers wrote an angry letter to Pimonenko, accusing him of corruption. The artist was forced to sue the manufacturer with a demand to withdraw the "Spotykach" from sale, and destroy the label.
- In 2006, the "absolute world record of sales of the artist Pimonenko" was set — the canvas "The Saleswoman of the canvas", (1901), was auctioned for 160 thousand US dollars.
- Matchmakers (1882)
- Yuletide divination (1888)
- Easter Matins in Little Russia (1891)
- The Harvest in Ukraine (1896)
- Victim of Fanaticism (1898)
- Evening is coming (1900)
- Ford (1901)
- Ukrainian night. Date (1905)
- Haymaking (earlier 1912)
- Self-portrait (earlier 1912)
