1832 - 1898
1832 - 1898
After Ivan Shishkin studied at the Moscow School of
Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture for 4 years, he attended the Petersburg Academy of
Arts from 1856 to 1860, and
graduated with the highest honors and a gold medal. Five years later he became a member of
the Academy and then a professor in 1865. At the same time Shishkin headed the landscape painting class at the
Higher Art School. Shishkin lived and worked in Switzerland and Germany.
The artist became a member of the Circle of the Itinerants and of the Society
of Russian Watercolorists, after returning to St Petersburg. He also took part in the
following exhibitions at: the Academy of Arts, the All Russian Exhibition in Moscow(1882),
the Nizhniy Novgorod (1896), and the World Fairs (Paris, 1867,1878 and Vienna,1873).
Shishkin's painting method was based on analytical studies of nature. He got fame for his forest landscapes but the artist was also an outstanding draftsman and a printmaker.
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| Corner of an Overgrown Garden,1884, Oil on canvas, 54 x 42 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, since1917. |
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| Oaks.1887. Oil on canvas, 147 x 108 cm. Russian Museum |
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| Morning in a Pine Forest.1889. Oil on canvas.139
x 213 cm. Tretyakov Gallery. |
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| Mast-Tree Grove.1898. Oil on canvas. 165 x 252 cm. Tretyakov Gallery. |
