Isaac Levitan

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Portrait of Levitan by Valentin Serov, 1893

Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́нcode: ru is deprecated ; August 30, 1860 – August 4 [O.S. July 22] 1900) was a Lithuanian-Russian landscape painter of Jewish descent.

Biography

Levitan was born in 1860 in Kibarty, Lithuania. His father worked for a railroad company. From 1873 to 1885, Levitan went to school at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow, Russia. He learned painting form the painters Savrasov and Polenov. Starting in 1884 his paintings went on display with the Society for Circulating Art Exhibitions. He became a member of the society in 1891. Levitan taught landscape painting at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture starting in 1898. He died in Moscow in 1900.

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Autumn Landscape, 1880

Work

In his career as a painter, Levitan painted many landscapes which were later thought of as masterpieces of Russian art. Levitan painted simple landscapes from Russia. Early in his career he painted scenes from around Moscow. Next he painted scenes from around the Volga River. His later paintings came from Vladimir, Vyshny Volochek, and the Tver region of Russia.

Isaac Levitan Media

• Levitan Sokolniki Autumn 1879.jpg

  Autumn day. Sokolniki. 1879

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  Levitan. Portrait by Valentin Serov (1893)

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  Lake. Rus 1900. The last, unfinished Levitan painting.

• Портрет С. П. Кувшинниковой. 1888.jpg

  Portrait of Sofia Kuvshinnikova by Levitan (1888)

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  LevitanSolnechnyDen

• Zvenigorod Savvinskaya sloboda2 isaak levitan.jpg

  Savvinskaya sloboda near Zvenigorod (1884)

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  Bridge. Savvinskaya sloboda

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  Birch Forest (1885–1889)

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  Spring. High water