1844-1930 After training with a provincial icon painter and at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, he visited France and Italy on an academy scholarship. On his return he began painting subjects from Russian history. In 1873 he achieved international fame with Volga Boatmen, a grim, powerful image that became the model for Soviet Socialist Realism. Among his best-known works is Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1895), depicting Ivan's murder of his son. He also painted vigorous portraits (including Leo Tolstoy and Modest Mussorgsky). In 1894 he became professor of historical painting at the St. Petersburg Academy.   Related Paintings of Ilya Yefimovich Repin :. | Self-portrait at work | Portrait of Lydia Kuznetsova | Andreyeva by Repin | Self portrait with Natalia Borisovna Nordman-Severova. | Obruchev |
Related Artists:
BURGOS, Juan de
Spanish painter
MEMMI, Lippo
Italian Byzantine Style Painter, ca.1290-1347
Eugene Buland
1852-1927 French Eugene Buland Locations