Ilya Repin
5 August 1844 – 29 September 1930
Ilya Repin (1844-1930) was a Russian realist painter, widely regarded as the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century. His major works, including Barge Haulers on the Volga and Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, depicted Russian society with psychological depth and became icons of the Peredvizhniki realist movement.
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Life events
Ilya Yefimovich Repin was born into a family of military settlers in Chuguyev, in present-day Ukraine.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRepin left Chuguyev for St. Petersburg and began formal training at the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1864.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRepin married Vera Alekseyevna Shevtsova, with whom he had four children before their eventual separation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis painting of laborers hauling a barge along the Volga River brought Repin national fame and became a landmark of Russian realism.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRepin lived and worked in Paris, where he encountered French Impressionism while completing works such as Sadko.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRepin finished his dramatic history painting depicting Tsar Ivan IV cradling his dying son, one of the most famous works in Russian art.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter more than a decade of work, Repin finished his large canvas of Cossacks composing a mocking letter to the Ottoman sultan, purchased by Tsar Alexander III.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRepin taught at the reformed Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where his students included Valentin Serov and Boris Kustodiev.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRepin moved to his estate Penaty in Kuokkala on the Karelian Isthmus, which became his permanent home and later left him living outside Soviet Russia after Finnish independence.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRepin died at his home in Kuokkala, Finland, at the age of 86 and was buried on the grounds of his estate.
Source: en.wikipedia.org