Ivan Shishkin

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Russian: Иван Иванович Шишкин, scientific transliteration Ivan Ivanovich Siskin; * 13 Januarjul / January 25 1832greg in Jelabuga, .. .. † 8 Märzjul / March 20 1898greg in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian painter and graphic artist and a member of the Peredvizhniki.

Life

Born the son of a merchant he had it very hard, his career aspirations to become a painter enforce.

He was educated at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. After that, he began studying at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, which he successfully completed in 1860 and provided with an award. In 1865 he received a teaching position at his former School and later took over a professorship. At the same time, he taught at a Higher School of Art landscape painting.

Shishkin lived and worked beyond a few years in Switzerland and in Germany (Dresden and Dusseldorf ). After his return to Russia, he was a member of the Peredvizhniki and the Society of Russian watercolorists.

Furthermore, he participated in exhibitions of the Academy of Arts, the All Russian Exhibition in Moscow in 1882 and the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867, Vienna in 1873 and again in Paris in 1878.

Shishkin's style was based on analytical studies of nature. He is regarded as an outstanding painter of natural landscapes, but was also an excellent draftsman and lithographer. His paintings are characterized by a profound Russian symbolism. He is considered one of the most important landscape painter and representatives of naturalism in Russian painting.

Works (selection)

  • The view of the island of Valaam
  • Lunch in Moscow
  • Pine forest in the province of Vyatka
  • Wäldliche widths
  • Pine trees in sunlight
  • Rain in the oak forest
  • The ship grove
  • The mast forest
  • The thicket
  • Rye field 1878 ( Tretyakov Gallery, 187 × 107cm, oil on canvas)
  • The forest, 1880s
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