Russian painters
This is a list of artists of the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list also includes those who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and those who were born elsewhere but immigrated to the country and/or worked there for a significant period of time.
Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) - Russian, the greatest marine artists in history
Иван Айвазовский (Հովհաննես Կոստանդինեսի Հայվազյան - Оганес Гайвазян)
Born: 29 July 1817; Feodosiya, Crimea, Ukraine
Died: 05 May 1900; Feodosiya, Crimea, Ukraine Field: painting, drawing Nationality: Russian, Armenian Education: Imperial Academy of Arts (St. Petersburg) Art Movement: Romanticism School or Group: Cimmerian Art School Genre: marina Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian: Ива́н Константи́нович Айвазо́вский; 29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter. He is considered one of the greatest marine artists in history. Following his education at the Imperial Academy of Arts, Aivazovsky traveled to Europe and lived briefly in Italy in the early 1840s. He then returned to Russia and was appointed the main painter of the Russian Navy. Aivazovsky had close ties with the military and political elite of the Russian Empire and often attended military maneuvers. He was sponsored by the imperial family and was well-regarded during his lifetime. The winged word "worthy of Aivazovsky's brush", popularized by Anton Chekhov, was used in Russia for "describing something ineffably lovely." |
Karl Bryullov (1799-1852) - Russian, representative of academic art
Брюллов Карл Павлович
Born: 12 December 1799, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 11 June 1852, Marsciano, near Rome, Italy Field: paiting Nationality: Russian Education: Imperial Academy of Arts (St. Petersburg) Art Movement: Neoclassicism, Romanticism Influences Cloud: Raphael, Poussin, Velasquez Genre: history, portrait Karl Pavlovich Bryullov, original name Charles Bruleau, Bryullov also spelled Briullov, Bryulov, Brülov, Brüllov, orBrülow (born Dec. 12 [Dec. 23, Old Style], 1799, St. Petersburg, Russia - died June 11 [June 23], 1852, Marsciano, near Rome, Papal States [Italy]), Russian painter who combined technical proficiency and classical academic training with a Romantic spontaneity to produce some of the liveliest examples of Russian art of the period. He is regarded as a key figure in transition from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism. |
Julius von Klever (1850-1924) - the Russian landscape painter
Клевер Юлий Юльевич
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Born: 31. January 1850, Dorpat, Russian Empire
Died: 24. December 1924 Field: paiting Nationality: Russian Education: Imperial Academy of Arts (St. Petersburg) Art Movement: Romanticism, Academism School or Group: Society of exhibitions of art works Genre: landscape Julius Sergius von Klever (russian: Юлий Юльевич Клевер / Juli Juljewitsch Klever; 31. January 1850 - 24. December 1924) is well known for his Romantic Russian forestscapes and his exploration of sunlight through the trees. His sublime melancholy style earned him the title the "Russian Rembrand". He studied with S.Vorobyev and M.Klodt and at The Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and became a professor the Imperial Academy in St.Petersburg in 1881. |
Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) - Russian, considered a representative of a Salon art
Маковский Константин Егорович
Born: 20. June 1839, Moscow
Died: 17. September 1915, Saint Petersburg Field: paiting Nationality: Russian Education: Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Art Movement: Academism, Realism School or Group: Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) Genre: portrait, history Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (Russian: Константин Егорович Маковский; June 20 [O.S. July 2] 1839 —September 17 [O.S. September 30] 1915) was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the "Peredvizhniki (Wanderers)". Many of his historical paintings, such as The Russian Bride's Attire (1889), showed an idealized view of Russian life of prior centuries. He is often considered a representative of a Salon art. |
Aleksey Savrasov (1830-1897) - Russian, creator of the lyrical landscape style
Саврасов Алексей Кондратьевич
Born: 24 May 1830; Moscow, Russian Federation
Died: 08 October 1897; Moscow, Russian Federation Field: paiting Nationality: Russian Education: Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Art Movement: Realism School or Group: Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) Genre: landscape Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897), one of Russia’s most remarkable landscape painters, who proceeded from romantic traditions in his never ending searchings, was first to produce what one could term the lyrical landscape. However, since he often anticipated future developments in both concept and realisation, his creative career was no bed of roses, for which reason his oeuvre confronts the art student and historian with perplexing problems. Many of his singular salient features derived from his artistic talent, his heightened sentivenses. Yet, he shows us a vital aspect of nature, namely its bond with our intellectual senses, that as such was unquestionable influenced by the overall philosophies of the time. |
Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) - Russian, considered by contemporaries the “tsar of the woods”
Шишкин Иван Иванович
Born: 25. January 1832, Yelabuga (Vyatka Governorate)
Died: 20. March 1898, Saint Petersburg Field: paiting Nationality: Russian Education: Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Art Movement: Realism School or Group: Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) Genre: landscape Patron: Pavel Tretyakov Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, (born Jan. 13 [Jan. 25, New Style], 1832, Yelabuga, Vyatka province, Russia—died March 8 [March 20], 1898, St. Petersburg, Russia), one of the most popular landscape painters of Russia. His paintings of wooded landscapes led his contemporaries to call him “tsar of the woods.” Shishkin’s “portrait” of Russian nature—expansive and rich, not subject to time and not dependent on human emotion—became associated with the staunchness and power of the Russian national character and with patriotic overtones of national history. Being in this sense an incarnation of the “Russian spirit,” Shishkin’s paintings entered everyday life in Russia, becoming the decoration on candy wrappers and illustrations in textbooks. |