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- Repin began painting icons at age sixteen. He failed at his first effort to enter the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, but went to the city anyway in 1863, audited courses, and won his first prizes in 1869 and 1871.
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Ilya Yefimovich Repin[ a ] (5 August [ O.S. 24 July] 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is now Ukraine. [ 1 ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ][ b ] He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1880–1883 ...
Sep 25, 2024 · In 1894 Repin became professor of historical painting at the academy in St. Petersburg. The powerful Volga Bargemen (1873) epitomizes the stark realism and socially critical cast of much of Repin’s work, which was to serve as a model for Socialist Realist painting in the Soviet Union.
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Repin began painting icons at age sixteen. He failed at his first effort to enter the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, but went to the city anyway in 1863, audited courses, and won his first prizes in 1869 and 1871.
1844 - 1930. Repin was the leading artist in the Russian Realist movement in the late 19th century. He was born in the Ukraine, and started as an icon painter. From 1864 to 1873 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg.
- The Peredvizhniki and The Birth of Russian Realism
- Barge Haulers on The Volga
- Ilya Repin in Europe
- The Repin Family
- Never Stand Still
- Becoming The Establishment
- Repin and Natalia Nordman
- Later Life
At St Petersburg Repin met fellow artist Ivan Kramskoi and art critic Vladimir Stasov. Ivan Kramskoi was one of the 'revolt of fourteen' who rejected the very strict and conservative idea of art being taught to them. As a result they were expelled from the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1863, instead setting up Peredvizhniki or The...
In 1870 Repin travelled to the Volga River and was struck there by the contrast between the colourful day trippers to the river and the labourers or peasants exhausted by the demands of their employers. Originally Repin intended to paint a canvas that depicted this contrast. He sought actual barge haulers to pose for him, as a result getting to kno...
Between 1872-1876 Repin travelled across Europe as part of a scholarship he won for his final piece at the Academy The Ressurrection of Jairus' Daughter. This included attending the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna where Barge Haulers on the Volga was on show. The next year he travelled to Paris where others of his work were being exhibited. During ...
In 1872 Repin married Vera Shevtsova. Together they had four children: Vera (1872), Nadhezhda (1974), Yury (1877) and Tatyana (1880). Many of Repin's pictures show images of his family- there are named portraits, and family members appear in other works such as 'They Did Not Expect Him' and 'Dragonfly.' Sadly the marriage floundered and Ilya and Ve...
From 1874 Repin was a part of the Peredvizhniki (The Itinerants), with his work appearing amongst those on show at their exhibitions. After his return from Europe he moved regularly, visiting or staying in Chugyev (his hometown), Moscow, the Ukraine, St Petersburg and the Crimea; he travelled around Western Europe with Vladimir Stasov and also visi...
In the 1890s Repin moved from being an artistic rebel to becoming a part of its ruling classes: he resigned from The Itinerants and took up a job creating a new statute for the Academy of Art. In 1894 this became a teaching job at an affiliate of the academy, the Higher Art School. He held this post off and on until 1907. He returned to The Itinera...
In 1900 Repin met and fell in love with Natalia Nordman. He moved into her home 'Penates' at Kuokkala (in Finland) where he continued to live after her death in 1914. Here they had weekly gatherings with the Russian creative elite whom Repin documented in portraits. Continuing to seek a fairer Russia for all, Repin protested against the Tsarist rep...
After Nordman's death Repin stayed at Penates. He was handicapped by an atrophy in his right hand, instead learning to paint with his left hand. However he was unable to produce his previous quality of work and lived under financial constrain. The Russian Revolution of 1917 closed the border between Finland and Russia and meant that Repin's estate ...
When young Repin discovered painting and began to depict rose bushes his sister's friends took turns asking him to paint their jewellery boxes with roses. The boy’s talent and enthusiasm could not go unnoticed, so his parents encouraged him to join the school of topography.
The greatest Russian painter of the nineteenth century and the pre-Revolution years, Ilya Repin (1844-1930) painted religious allegories, scenes of searing realism, and portraits of the Russian intelligentsia of the period.
