THE GREAT RUSSIAN ARTIST ISAAK LEVITAN
LITTLE-KNOWN PAINTINGS AND LITTLE-KNOWN EPISODES FROM THE LIFE.
His landscapes draw their amazing energy and definitely leave no one indifferent. Isaac Levitan - legendary Russian landscape painter, who, in the nineteenth century, was reopened to the public the beauty and grandeur of Russian nature. The future artist was born 18 Aug 1860 in the town of Kybartai of Marijampole district, Augustow province in a Jewish family. As an artist he has traveled almost the whole Europe, but most of all he loved and painted with great pleasure that Russian landscapes.
1. Landscape with ferns
Levitan"s Father Ilya Abramovich was descended from a rabbinical family that lived in the town of Kaidanov. Elias studied in a yeshiva in Vilna. Engaging in self-education, taught herself French and German. In Kovno he taught foreign languages and then worked as a translator during the construction of the railway bridge, which was led by the French company.
2. The waterfront of Riva degli Schiavoni
Ilya Levitan, in an effort to improve the financial situation and to give children education, in the early 1870-х moved with his family to Moscow. In 1871, the elder brother of Isaac, Abel Leyb, he entered the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture. In the fall of 1873 the school came and thirteen-year-old Isaac. His teachers were artists Perov, Savrasov and Polenov.
In 1875, his mother died Levitan and seriously ill father. Forced by illness to leave work on the railroad, Levitan"s father could not contain the four children tutoring. The family"s financial situation was such that school from time to time provided the brothers with material assistance, and in 1876 exempt them from tuition" ввиду extreme poverty" and as" оказавших great strides in art". 3 Feb 1877 died of typhoid fever father. For Levitan, his brother and sisters is the time of extreme need. The artist studied then in the fourth" натурном" class under Vasily Perov. Each Perov, Alexei Savrasov, drew attention to Levitan and took him to his landscape painting class. In March 1877, the two works of Levitan exhibited at the fair were noted by the media, and sixteen-year-old artist received a silver medal and 220 rubles" для to continue занятия".
3. Birch grove
4. A great way
Already held, the artist had the opportunity to visit France, Italy, Austria, Finland, where he wrote several famous paintings. Also enthusiastically adopted Levitan and the Crimea, where he arrived probably at the invitation of Chekhov. Writing a few dozen bright, talented landscapes, traveled several cities, the artist later wrote to a friend-писателю:" Передайте the Schechtel..., so don"t worry, I like the North now more than when-либо, I only now realized его...". Levitan will forever remain faithful to his" Подмосковью" and especially the town of Plyos, where the main subjects of the artist. Staying there for the night, Levitan remained in ples into three cultural season, and for all life, inextricably linking their own name and the name of the Volga town.
5. Boulevard in winter
6. In early March
Toured the whole of Europe, to" сверить watch" with the leading artists of the time, he nevertheless wrote from nice:" Воображаю, how lovely we now have in Russia – the rivers had flooded, everything comes to life. There is no better country than Russia... Only in Russia can be a real landscape". And Levitan"s paintings really are evidence of Russian nature, inspiring verses of the poet Rubtsov and for the brilliant prose of Chekhov. Konstantin Paustovsky, the famous for its scenery in prose, wrote enthusiastically about the range" эмоций" on the paintings of the artist.
7. Spring in Italy
8. Evening bells
three years before the death of Levitan wrote:" Я I"ve never loved so nature was not so sensitive to it, I"ve never felt I divine something spilled all over, but not everyone sees that even can not be called, because it is not amenable to reason, analysis, and attained through love. Without this feeling can"t be true художник...".
9. Sea view
10. Vladimirka
Source: https://kulturologia.EN/blogs/100519/43033/
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