Isaac Levitan – Russian Master of Landscape Painting

Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; 1860 – 1900) was a master Russian painter known mostly for his remarkable and diverse landscapes. Isaac Levitan was born to a poor Jewish family in Kybartai, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. Levitan and his family later relocated to Moscow, where #Levitan began his artistic studies. He enrolled in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1873. His brother Adolf had already been studying there for two years. One of Russia’s greatest landscape painters, Levitan walked the line between realist and symbolist painting. Levitan’s teachers were the famous Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Perov and Vasily Polenov. Isaak Levitan, Savrasov’s favourite pupil and follower, called his teacher “the creator of the Russian landscape”, claiming that Savrasov’s art brought out the “lyrical quality of landscape painting”, being filled with “boundless love for his homeland”. Google Photos Album .