Biography of Isaak Levitan


Isaak Ilich Levitan is a Russian landscape painter.

Isaak was born on August 18, 1860 in the Kovno Province, the village of Kibarty, in a highly educated family. His father had several languages, he was a teacher. In the 1870s, he moved to Moscow with his family. Isaak from childhood was fond of drawing, so that, beginning in 1873, he began to study at the school of painting, sculpture, architecture in Moscow. After the death of his father and mother, in the biography of Isaak Levitan came a difficult period. Seeing the pupil’s talent and his inability to pay for tuition, he was released from the school and even helped.

After the exhibition of paintings during his studies, the artist received a silver medal. He graduated in 1885. Later in the biography of the artist Levitan passed several trips to France and Italy. Also his works Levitan represented among the Association of mobile art exhibitions. For some time, the artist was forced to leave Moscow, but later returned.

If we consider a short biography of Levitan, it should be noted that since 1898 he taught at his native school. Among the most famous paintings of Levitan – “Above Eternal Peace”, “Evening on the Volga”, “Birch Grove”, “Twilight Stocks”, “Spring – Big Water” and many others.


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Biography of Isaak Levitan