Isaac Levitan

Isaac Levitan Isaac Ilyich Levitan Along with Ivan Shishkin, Isaac Levitan is recognized for producing among the most exquisite works connected with both the Peredvizhniki School and for ushering in a heyday for Russian landscape painting. Levitan, born into poverty in modern-day Lithuania, came to Moscow as a young boy. Following his orphanage and subsequent homelessness, the young artist used his sorrows to inspire his paintings. He achieved early success, participating in exhibitions as a student joint venture with the Peredvizhniki Group when he was just a teenager and was drawn into the goals of that movement: to develop a...
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