Ivan Shishkin

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Ivan Shishkin
Иван Иванович Шишкин
Born	(1832-01-25)25 January 1832 Yelabuga, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	20 March 1898(1898-03-20) (aged 66) St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Nationality	Russian
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1865) Professor by rank (1873)[1]
Alma mater	Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; Imperial Academy of Arts (1860)[1]
Known for	Painting
Notable work	Morning in a Pine Forest (with Konstantin Savitsky, 1878) A Rye Field (1878)
Movement	Realism, Peredvizhniki
Awards	Silver Medal (1858) Minor Golden Medal (1859) Grand Golden Medal (1860)[1]
Patron(s)	Pavel Tretyakov

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.

Biography[]

Portrait of Shishkin by Ivan Kramskoi (1873)

Russian stamps with the portrait of Shishkin

Shishkin was born in Yelabuga of Vyatka Governorate (today Republic of Tatarstan) and graduated from the Kazan gymnasium. Then he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for four years. After that, he attended the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860 and graduated with the highest honours and a gold medal. He received the imperial scholarship for his further studies in Europe.

Five years later Shishkin became a member of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and was professor of painting from 1873 to 1898. At the same time, Shishkin headed the landscape painting class at the Highest Art School in St. Petersburg.

For some time, Shishkin lived and worked in Switzerland and Germany on scholarship from the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. On his return to Saint Petersburg, he became a member of the Circle of the Itinerants and of the Society of Russian Watercolorists. He also took part in exhibitions at the Academy of Arts, the All-Russian Exhibition in Moscow (1882), the Nizhniy Novgorod (1896), and the World Fairs (Paris, 1867 and 1878, and Vienna, 1873). Shishkin's painting method was based on analytical studies of nature. He became famous for his forest landscapes and was also an outstanding draftsman and a printmaker.

Ivan Shishkin owned a dacha in , south from St. Petersburg. There he painted some of his finest landscapes. His works are notable for poetic depiction of seasons in the woods, wild nature, animals and birds. In 1891, he was appointed professor-director of the landscape class in the Academy's Advanced Art School. In 1898, he completed his painting The Pine Grove and died on 20 March in St. Petersburg, while working on his new painting.^[2]

A minor planet 3558 Shishkin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978, is named after him.^[3]

Gallery[]

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  Morning in a Pine Forest, 1889

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  Rye, 1878

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  Oak Grove, 1887

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  Forest, 1895

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  Winter, 1890

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  In the Wild North, 1891

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  Rain in an Oak Forest, 1891

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  Birch Forest, 1871

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  Pine on Sand, 1884

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  The Rocky Landscape, 1889

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  View on the Outskirts of St. Petersburg, 1856

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  After the Storm in Meri Hovi, 1891

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  Forest Distance, 1884

References[]

Literary sources[]

• С. Н. Кондаков (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914 (in Russian). 2. p. 224.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ivan Shishkin.

• Ivan Shishkin at Tanais Gallery
• Ivan Shishkin. Morning in a Pine Forest. Description of the picture.
• Ivan Shishkin. Mast-Tree Grove. Description of the picture.
• Ivan Shishkin. Rye. Description of the picture.
• Works
• Ivan Shishkin Memorial House Museum, Russia