Ivan Kramskoy


Ivan Kramskoy Portrait
Name
Ivan Kramskoy
Life Dates
1837 - 1887
Country
Russia
Movement
Realism

Ivan Kramskoy Biography

Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy is an outstanding representative of the democratic culture in Russia of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a wonderful painter and draughtsman, a remarkable art critic and theoretician of art, a talented teacher. Besides, he was an originator and ardent inspirer of the first independent artistic organizations, namely the Itinerants’ Society of Traveling Exhibitions and St. Petersburg Team of Artists, which had played an important part in the development of art in Russia.


Ivan Kramskoy 103 Most Important Paintings and Artworks

Ivan Kramskoy Bibliography

Kramskoy. by T. Kurochkina. Russian Painters of the XIX century. Moscow. 1989.

The Art and Architecture of Russia (Pelican History Art) by George Heard Hamilton. Yale Univ Pr, 1992.

A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists 1420-1970 by John Milner. Antique Collectors' Club, 1993.

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