Ivan kramskoi biography

          Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi (Russian: Иван Николаевич Крамской; 8 June [O.S....

          Born in Russia in , Kramskoy taught himself to draw as a young child.

        1. Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi was a Russian Realist painter and art critic.
        2. Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi (Russian: Иван Николаевич Крамской; 8 June [O.S.
        3. A master portrait artist and the founder of the Wanderers, Ivan Kramskoy (), was committed to the equalities of all people.
        4. Vasnetsov later finished his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (–75).

          5. Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy (1837-1887)

           

          First Paintings

          Kramskoy's first paintings from the 1860s are not particularly large, and are often monochrome, reflective of the new art of photography which was gradually becoming popular.

          Examples of his portrait art from this period include Sophia Kramskaya Reading (1863, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow); Portrait of a Young Woman Dressed in Black Velvet (1863, Art Museum, Kuibyshev, Russia); Portrait of E.

          Vasilchikova (1867, Perm Art Gallery, Russia); Portrait of V. Voyeykova (1867, Museum-Estate of Polenov, Russia); Self-Portrait (1867, Tretyakov Gallery) and Portrait of the Agronomist Vyunnikov (1868, State Museum of Byelorussia, Minsk).

          Between 1863 and 1868 Kramskoy taught drawing at the Society for Promoting Artists; his pupils included Nikolai Yaroshenko and Ilya Repin.

          Portraits

          From about 1869 Kramskoy received regular commissions from the Russian art patron Pavel Tretyakov (who gave his name to the