Johann Gottlieb Wenig, russified as Bogdan Bogdanovich Wenig was a Baltic German painter in the Academical style, active in Saint Petersburg during Tsar Alexander II's reign.
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Johann Gottlieb Wenig, russified as Bogdan Bogdanovich Wenig was a Baltic German painter in the Academical style, active in Saint Petersburg during Tsar Alexander II's reign. The younger brother to fellow painter Carl Wenig, he was a second-rate master most remembered among the fourteen protestants led by Ivan Kramskoi into leaving the Imperial Academy of Arts and establishing the Artel of Artists in 1863.
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deceased
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Lived 1837 to 1872 · aged 35
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