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IVAN SHISHKIN
After he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1852-1855), Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin attended the Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860, completing his studies with the highest honors and a gold medal. Five years later, in 1865, he attained the rank of member of the Academy, and then in 1873 that of professor. He also headed in 1894-1895 and in 1897 the landscape painting class at the Higher Art School affiliated with the Academy of Arts.
Before he received these professional honors, Shishkin lived and worked abroad in Switzerland and Germany (1862-1865), spending half a year in the Zurich workshop of R. Koller and residing in Dusseldorf (Germany) for one year. Upon his return to Petersburg, Shishkin became one of the founding members of the Circle of the Itinerants, and he joined the Society of Russian Watercolorists. Among the exhibitions in which his works were included were those at the Academy of Arts, the All Russian Exhibition in Moscow in 1882, the Nizhnii Novgorod (Russia) in 1896, and the World Fairs held in Paris (1867 and 1878) and Vienna (1873).
A highly esteemed master of Russian realist landscape painting, Shishkin's creative method was based on exhaustive, analytical studies and on a kind of "portraiture" of nature that exposed its most typical features. Distinguished for his forest landscapes, Shishkin is known not only as a painter but also as an outstanding draftsman and printmaker.
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| Noon in the Neighbourhood of Moscow - Oil on canvas 1869 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia |
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| Pond in a Old Park. Study - Oil on canvas 1898 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia |
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| Misty Morning - Oil on canvas 1885 The Art Museum, Gorky - Russia. |
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| Krestovsky Island Shrouded in Mist - Oil on canvas The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - Russia |
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| Twilight. After Sunset - Oil on canvas 1874 The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev - Ukraine |
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| Promenading in the Forest - Oil on canvas 1869 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - Russia |
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| On the Shore of the Gulf of Finland. Udrias Near Narva - Oil on canvas 1889 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - Russia |
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| Oaks - Oil on canvas 1887 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - Russia |
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| Wind-Fallen Trees - Oil on canvas 1888 The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev - Ukraine |
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| View of Valaam Island. Kukko - Oil on canvas 1859 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - Russia. |
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| Pine-Trees Lit Up by the Sun - Oil on canvas 1880 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| Stream by a Forest Slope - Oil on canvas 1880 The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine. |
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| Promenading in the Forest - Oil on canvas 1869 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| Winter - Oil on canvas 1890 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| Rye - Oil on canvas 1878 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| The Kama Near Yelabuga - Oil on canvas 1895 The Art Museum, Gorky |
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| The Mordvinovo Oaks - Oil on canvas 1891 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| View in the Vicinity of St. Petersburg - Oil on canvas - 1856 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| View near Dusseldorf - Oil on canvas 1865 - The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| Gathering Storm - Oil on canvas 1884 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| Forest Stream - Oil on canvas 1874 - The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine |
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| Fallen Tree - Oil on canvas 1875 The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine |
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| Dediduous Forest - Oil on canvas - The Tretyakov Gallery |
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| Beech Forest in Switzerland - Oil on canvas 1863 - The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| Autumn - Oil on canvas 1892 The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| A Walk in the Forest - Oil on canvas 1869 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| Oaks. 1887 Oil on Canvas (147 x 108 cm) |
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| Ship's Grove. 1898 Oil on Canvas (165 x 264 cm) |
ORIGINAL TURKISH PAINTINGS