- Ivan Shishkin
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin ( _ru. Иван Иванович Шишкин,
25 January 1832 –20 March 1898 ) was aRussia nlandscape painter closely associated with thePeredvizhniki movement.Shishkin was born in the town of
Elabuga of Vyatka Governorate (today Republic ofTatarstan ), and graduated from theKazan gymnasium . He then studied at theMoscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for 4 years, then attended theSaint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860, graduating with the highest honors and agold 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 wasprofessor of painting from 1873 to 1898. At the same time, Shishkin headed the landscape painting class at the Higher Art School in St. Petersburg.For some time, Shishkin lived and worked in
Switzerland andGermany 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 inMoscow (1882), theNizhniy Novgorod (1896), and theWorld Fair s (Paris , 1867 and 1878, andVienna ,1873). Shishkin's painting method was based on analytical studies ofnature . He became famous for hisforest landscapes, and was also an outstanding draftsman and a printmaker.Ivan Shishkin owned a
dacha inVyra , south of 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. He died in 1898, in St. Petersburg, Russia, while working on his new painting.A
minor planet 3558 Shishkin , discovered by Soviet astronomerLyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after him. [cite book | last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. | coauthors = | title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names | pages = p. 299 | edition = 5th | year = 2003 | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | url = http://books.google.com/books?q=3557+Sokolsky+1977 | id = ISBN 3540002383]References
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