Ilya Repine

Ilya Yefimovich Repine (in Russian Илья́Ефи́мовичРе́пин), born with Tchougouïev close to Kharkov, today in Ukraine, the August 5th 1844 (Calendar Julien: July 24th) and dead the September 29th 1930, is one of principal the painters and Russian sculptor S of the artistic movement Peredvizhniki. Its realistic works often express a shingling criticism of the social order.

Its life and its work

His/her father was military officer. In 1866, it leaves to Saint-Pétersbourg where it studies with the imperial Académie of the fine arts. Repine remains in Italy and with Paris, thanks to a purse allotted by the Academy, of 1873 to 1876. It pеint of the peasants, poissonnières and the scenes of the commercial life.

Repine joined the association of the artists Peredvizhniki (Company of the Travelling Artistic Exposures) in 1878. Starting from 1882 it lives in Saint-Pétersbourg but gone on many journeys abroad. Inspired by the portraits of Rembrandt representing old men, it immortalise number of its most famous compatriots, such Leon Tolstoï, Mendeleïev, Pobedonostsev, and Moussorgski. In 1903, it is charged by the Russian government with carrying out its most imposing work, a fabric of 400 X 877 cm representing the protocolar Session of the Council of State to mark its centenary on May 7th, 1901 .

After the Revolution of 1917, its place of residence, the Home, in Kuokkala, located at the north of Pétersbourg Saint, is incorporated in the Finland. It is invited by Lénine to return to Russia, but it is too old to undertake the voyage. It reconsiders to Russia only supplications of the Minister for the education of the Soviet Union in 1926. He dies in Kuokkala, in Finland (today become again Russian: Repino, Oblast of Leningrad) in 1930.

The most famous paintings of Repine are Ivan the Terrible keep silent his son (1885), the Boat-towers of the the Volga (1870-73), and the Zaporogues cossacks writing a letter with the sultan of Turkey (1880-91).

Ilya Repine had inter alia as pupils Isaak Brodsky, Nikolaï Feshin, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Valentine Serov, Konstantin Somov, Vasilii Porfirevich Timorev, Marianne von Werefkin, Alexei von Jawlensky.

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