Ivan Kramskoi
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Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi was a Russian Realist painter and art critic. One of the most prominent artisans during Tsar Alexander II's reign, he is remembered as co-founding member and public frontman
Portrait by Ilya Repin, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (1882)
Self-Portrait, 1867
The Mermaids, 1871
Christ in the Desert, 1872
Peredvizhniki
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Peredvizhniki, often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into
Ivan Kramskoi
…and art critic. One of the most prominent artisans during Tsar Alexander II's reign, he is remembered as co-founding member and public frontman of the Peredvizhniki movement. Kramskoi came from an impoverished petit-bourgeois family. From 1857 to 1863 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts; he reacted…
Newcomer at School by Emily Shanks
Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870–1873
Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1878
Konstantin Savitsky, Repairing the Railroad, 1874