Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russia

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n landscape

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 painter

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 closely associated with the Peredvizhniki

Peredvizhniki

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 movement.
Shishkin was born in Yelabuga

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 of Vyatka Governorate (today Republic of Tatarstan

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), and graduated from the Kazan gymnasium

Kazan Gymnasium

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. Then he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

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 for 4 years, attended the Saint Petersburg

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 Imperial Academy of Arts

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 from 1856 to 1860,which he graduated with the highest honours and a gold medal

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. He received the Imperial scholarship for his further studies in Europe. Five years later Shishkin became a member of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and was professor

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 of painting from 1873 to 1898. At the same time, Shishkin headed the landscape painting class at the Highest Art School in St. Petersburg.

For some time, Shishkin lived and worked in Switzerland and Germany on scholarship from the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. On his return to Saint Petersburg, he became a member of the Circle of the Itinerants

Peredvizhniki

Peredvizhniki , often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870.- History :In 1863 a group of fourteen students...

 and of the Society of Russian Watercolorists

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. He also took part in exhibition

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s at the Academy of Arts, the All Russian Exhibition in Moscow

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 (1882), the Nizhniy Novgorod (1896), and the World Fair

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s (Paris, 1867 and 1878, and Vienna

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, 1873). Shishkin's painting method was based on analytical studies of nature

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. He became famous for his forest landscapes, and was also an outstanding draftsman

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 and a printmaker

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.

Ivan Shishkin owned a dacha

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 in Vyra, south of St. Petersburg. There he painted some of his finest landscapes. His works are notable for poetic depiction of seasons in the woods, wild nature, animals and birds. He died in 1898, in St. Petersburg, Russia, while working on his new painting.

A minor planet

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 3558 Shishkin

3558 Shishkin

3558 Shishkin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1978 by L. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. It is named after the Russian landscape painter Ivan Shishkin.- External links :*...

, discovered by Soviet

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 astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova

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 in 1978 is named after him.

Direct descendant of the painter is his granddaughter in 5-generation Helgana Shyshkina-Rybalskaya (.). She is a famous European artist, writer, and a Gothic queen - the mother of this informal movement in the post-Soviet space (more information can be found here http://www.saatchionline.com/Helgana and here http://www.helgana.openua.net)

Gallery

Morning in a Pine Forest Morning in a Pine Forest The Morning in a Pine Forest is a painting by Russian artists Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. Savitsky has painted the bears, but the art collector Pavel Tretyakov effaced his signature, stating that "from idea until performance, everything discloses the painting manner and creative method...		A Rye Field		Rain in an Oak Forest

External links

• Ivan Shishkin at Tanais Gallery
• Ivan Shishkin. Morning in a Pine Forest. Description of the picture.
• Ivan Shishkin. Mast-Tree Grove. Description of the picture.
• Ivan Shishkin. Rye. Description of the picture.
• Works