Career
His landscapes of that period painted undersupervision of M. Vorobyov and F.Bruni were samples of classical academicpainting. Having won a competition, he received the means to continue hisstudies abroad, in Switzerland, Germany and Italy(1858–1860). He learned from famous landscape masters A. Calame andA.Achenbach. His paintings of that period demonstrate that he learned well hislessons from the ‘Dusseldorf School’ as he mastered his skillsof contemplation, romantic elevation, poeticization of patriarchal countrylife. However, A. Horawski failed to spend all of his study period abroad, he was more attracted by thenature of his native land, which he painted exclusively and directly from life.
He could obtain the means for aliving (having married colonel Benois’ daughter, A. Horawski became a member ofthe famous Russian artistic family) from numerous orders for portraits andteaching activities at the Drawing School for Encouraging Artists at theAcademy of Arts (1860s), but he viewed landscape painting as the main work oflife. He travelled much around Russia (1869 –1872), visited Siberia in 1885–1886. In 1861he became an academician of painting. The artist lived in St. Petersburg, in the Pskov Region where his wife owned an estate, inUkraine, but in summertime he always tried tovisit his native places. A. Horawski painted many landscapes of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. They are now in museums of these countries. Heused to learn throughout his whole life, and accordingly, his style changed:from early Classicism through plein air nature works to lyrical landscapes ofthe turn of the century. There are 16 paintings by A. Horawski in the National Art Museum of Belarus.
