Ivan Fedorovich CHOULTSE 1877 — 1932Іван Федорович ШУЛЬТЦЕ • Иван Федорович ШУЛЬТЦЕIvan Fedorovich Choultse was born in Petrograd, Russia in 1877. A landscape painter, he studied painting with Constantin Krighitsky and became the court painter to Czar Nicholas II. After the Russian Revolution, he immigrated to Paris and in 1923 began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français. Although Choultse continued to paint Russian scenes while in Paris, he also undertook several trips to Switzerland’s Engadine. He was fascinated with the mountainous landscape of the area surrounding St. Moritz, especially in the winter. Critics wrote that no other artist was ever as adept at transferring the texture of settled snow to canvas. Choultse exhibited in Paris in 1922 and 1923, London – 1927, New York – 1928 and 1931, Chicago – 1933. Died in Paris in 1932. |
