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Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy
1837-1887 Russia/Realism
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Brief Biography-Nikolaevich (Nikolayevich) Kramskoy (Kramskoi) picked up drawing at a very young age and, as a teenager, received instruction from an icon artist. At twenty, the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts admitted him. However, he rebelled against a neoclassical instruction format and formed a breakaway group opposed to Academic art. On the other hand, Ilya Repin, was a contemporary who remained with the Academic ideal.
The Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions, called the Itinerants, roamed Russia exhibiting their works. Kramskoy travelled through Europe, and in Russia, he arranged exhibitions for the group. He did portraits of notable people and painted religious works, while the renowned art patron Pavel Tretyakov collected many paintings. He became an Academician at the Saint Petersburg Academy in 1869. Kramskoy died with his brush in his hand in 1887. Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Christ in the Desert, Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, and Ivan Shishkin. |
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Girl and Cat

An Unknown
Woman

A Woman

Alexander III

Bee Keeper

Leo Tolstoy

Ivan N Kramskoi

Grief

Christ
in the
Desert

Peasant

Old
Man

Maria
Feodorovna

Insulted Boy

Ivan Shishkin

Ivan
Shishkin

The Mermaids

portrait of sergei

Vladimir
Solovyov

Moonlight Night

Self-portrait

Portrait
of a Boy

the artist's son

In The Park-

Kramskoy Painting
