REPIN Ilya Efimovich
1844, Chuguyev (Kharkiv Province) - 1930, Kuokkala (Finland)
Painter, draughtsman, watercolour painter, portraitist, history painter. Studied under local artists at the School of Military Topography in Chuguyev (1854-57), under Ivan Kramskoi at the School of Drawing, Society for the Encouragement of Artists (1863) and at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1864-71). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Italy and France, lived mostly in Paris (1873-76). Academician (1876). Professor, full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1893). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1878, exhibited from 1874). Headed a studio at the Higher School of Art, Imperial Academy of Arts (1894-1907) and taught at Princess Maria Tenisheva''s school of art (1895-98). Lived in St Petersburg and Moscow, settled in Kuokkala (1900).
The Mediateka
Virtual tour of the exhibition, held in the Russian Museum from 3 October 2019 to 9 March 2020.
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Эстетические отношения искусства Репина к действительности России ХХ столетия
А. Г. Бойко
31 October 2019
Lecture to the exhibition “Ilya Repin. Celebrating the 175th anniversary of the artist’s birth”
А. А. Курбановский
26 September 2019