Isaac Ilyich Levitan

Isaac Ilyich Levitin Isaac Levitin was born into an educated, impoverished Jewish family. In 1873, 13-year-old Isaac Levitin entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. His teachers were artists Pirov, Savrasov, and Polenov. In March 1877, two of Levitin's works were noted by the press, and the 16-year-old artist received a small silver medal and the opportunity to continue his studies. A talented Jewish boy annoyed other teachers. In the spring of 1885, at the age of 24, Levitin graduated from college. He did not receive the title of an artist, he was given a diploma of a calligraphy teacher. His hungry childhood and hard work affected the health. At the beginning of 1890, Levitin made his first trip to Western Europe, visited France and Italy. He wanted to get better acquainted with the contemporary painting widely represented at the World Exhibition in Paris. In March 1891, Isaac Levitin became a member of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions. The artist founded and developed a new kind of landscape, called by his contemporaries Landscape of Mood. Isaac Levitin is the greatest of those Russian landscape painters who, in the 19th century, discovered the modest beauty of Russian nature. Levitin usually does not have an image of a person, but there is almost always a reminder of him, churches, roads and bridges.