 | Ivan Ivanovich SHISHKIN 1832 — 1898Іван Іванович ШИШКІН • Иван Иванович ШИШКИНIvan Ivanovich Shishkin was born in Elabuga in 1832. One of the most important Russian landscape painters. Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1852-1856, and at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts in 1856-1865. In 1862-1865 traveled to Munich, Prague and Düsseldorf. Shishkin was a founding member of the Wanderers’ Society (Tovarishchestva Peredvishnich Chudoshnich Vystavok). Became famous for his forest landscapes, but was also an outstanding draftsman and a printmaker. Lived and worked in St. Petersburg, where he died in 1898. |
