Lev Lvovich Kamenev

Lew Lvovitch Kamenev (Russian Лев Львович Каменев, * 1833 or 1834 in Rylsk, .. † 14 Januarjul / January 26 1886greg in Sawinskaja sloboda ), was a Russian landscape painter.

Life

Lew Lvovitch Kamenev was born in 1833 or 1834 in Ryslk, a town in Kursk Oblast. But Shortly thereafter the family moved to Astrakhan, where Kamenev went to school but did not graduate because he was in his father's shop, a small trader, used.

The grandfather of the later famous painter Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin recognized the talent of the young man and allowed him to study at the art school of Saint Petersburg. 1854 moved Kamenev to Moscow, where he was admitted to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied there for four years under Karl Rabus and Alexei Sawrasow.

From 1862 to 1865 he undertook a study trip to Germany, where he studied in Munich and Dusseldorf, and Switzerland. After returning to Russia, he devoted himself to landscape painting. In 1970 he was a founding member of the artist group Peredvizhniki. In these decades also the culmination of his work falls.

Lev Kamenev Lvovitch died impoverished in 1886 near Moscow.

Works (selection)

• Winter road in 1866, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Spring, 1866, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Near Porechye, 1869, Russian Museum Saint Petersburg
• Fog. The Red Bridge in Moscow in autumn, 1871, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Landscape, 1872, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow