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Kramskoy: paintings, biography. Works of Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy.

Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich – biography and paintings

Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich - biography and paintings

  • Year of birth: May 27, 1837
  • Date of death: March 24, 1887
  • Country: Russia
  • Locations of the artist’s works: Russian Museum Hermitage Tretyakov Gallery

Biography:

Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich (years of life – 1837-1887) is known today as a talented portrait painter and historical painter. His hometown is Ostrogozhsk of Voronezh Province. It was there, in the family of a small official and was born little Vanya. He was fond of painting since childhood. At every opportunity, he took a pen or pencil in his hands and tried to sketch everything he saw around him. He was very fond of reading. In 1850, after graduating from county college, 13-year-old Vanya had already begun his career. He worked as a scribe at first, and then as a retoucher for a photographer he knew, with whom he traveled almost all over Russia. In 1857 they arrived in St. Petersburg, where the future painter decided to stay and was hired by Denier to work in his photo studio. In the same year, Ivan Kramskoy and realized his dream – entered the Academy of Fine Arts. Even during his studies, the artist tried to unite around himself all the active academic youth. And after graduation, along with other graduates of the Academy, he created the St. Petersburg Artel. It is said that the atmosphere of friendliness and mutual understanding that reigned there was entirely his merit. By that time, Ivan Kramskoy had finally found his calling as a portrait painter. His favorite technique at that time was the graphic technique. It is this technique that we can observe today in the portraits of Ivan Shishkin, I. Morozov, G. Myasoedov, N. Koshelev and not only. For some time Kramskoy taught at the School of Arts under the Society for the Encouragement of Artists. When the St. Petersburg Artel slowly began to disintegrate, he organized the Association of Itinerant Art Exhibitions. The 70s and 80s of the 19th century were the years when Ivan Kramskoy painted some of his most famous works (“The Farmer,” “Mina Moiseyev” and “The Peasant with a Uziadka”). More and more often the artist combines in his works portrait and everyday themes (“Stranger”, “inconsolable grief”). Throughout his career, the artist often had to take and order of a church character, which were for him one of the main sources of income. Thus, it is no exaggeration to say that Ivan Kramskoy was an outstanding figure in the cultural life of Russia in the years 60-80 of the last century. A talented artist, a fine critic, and the founder of the St. Petersburg Artel, he became the ideological inspirer of a whole generation, setting a new vector for the development of such a branch of art in Russia as portrait realism.

Paintings by Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy

Portrait Of Alexander Iii

Portrait of Alexander III

Portrait Of Botkin

Portrait of Botkin

Girl With A Loose Braid

Girl with a loose braid

A Girl With A Cat

A girl with a cat

Bouquet Of Flowers. Phloxes

Bouquet of flowers. Phloxes

Laughter

Laughter

Christ In The Wilderness

Christ in the Wilderness

Herodias

Herodias

The Polesmith

The Polesmith

A Peasant With A Bridle

A peasant with a bridle

Moonlit Night

Moonlit Night

Mina Moiseyev

Mina Moiseyev

Unknown

Unknown

Nekrasov During The “Last Songs” Period

Nekrasov during the

Unfortunate Sorrow

Unfortunate sorrow

Pasechnik

Pasechnik

Portrait Of Empress Maria Feodorovna In Pearl Garb

Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna in pearl garb

Portrait Of Painter I. I. Shishkin

Portrait of painter I. I. Shishkin

Portrait Of The Narrator Of Bylinas

Portrait of the Narrator of Bylinas

Portrait Of Sophia Nikolayevna Kramskaya

Portrait of Sophia Nikolayevna Kramskaya

Portrait Of The Philosopher Solovyov

Portrait of the Philosopher Solovyov

The Contemplative

The Contemplative

Portrait Of Leo Tolstoy

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy

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