Happy birthday, Ivan Shishkin!

Ivan Shishkin, Russian landscape painter, was born on January 25, 1832

Ivan Shishkin. Self-portrait. 1886
Soft ground etching, printing. 24.3 by 17.5 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is remembered in the history of Russian art as an artist who glorified the grandeur and beauty of the nature of his homeland, and masterfully and lovingly translated into the language of painting the limitless vastness of fields with golden grain, the greatness of oak forests with their ceaseless murmur, the dense pathless thickets of woodland, every single grass-blade, the unassuming flowers of the field, and the wrinkled tree-bark on an old tree. His life in art is one of the most essential and important components of Russian landscape painting, of the history of its formation and bloom.
Galina Churak. “One should search for nature at its simplest…”
Magazine issue: #4 2007 (17)

Publications of the Tretyakov Gallery magazine dedicated to Ivan Shishkin:

EXCLUSIVE PUBLICATIONS

Galina Churak
IVAN SHISHKIN’S OTHER GENRE. The story of a search - and its findings

#1 2010 (26)

The artistic legacy of outstanding Russian painters such as Vasily Surikov, Viktor Vasnetsov and Ilya Repin - and another master from the same tradition, Ivan Shishkin - seems to have been studied, explored and expounded so thoroughly that, to use Shishkin’s words, “everything has been learned, and there is no more learning to be done”. However, museum researchers sometimes enjoy unexpected encounters with works by these masters that have been long forgotten and/or believed lost, or have a style unusual for them and here is the story of our search and findings.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Galina Churak
“One should search for nature at its simplest…”

#4 2007 (17)

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is remembered in the history of Russian art as an artist who glorified the grandeur and beauty of the nature of his homeland, and masterfully and lovingly translated into the language of painting the limitless vastness of fields with golden grain, the greatness of oak forests with their ceaseless murmur, the dense pathless thickets of woodland, every single grass-blade, the unassuming flowers of the field, and the wrinkled tree-bark on an old tree. His life in art is one of the most essential and important components of Russian landscape painting, of the history of its formation and bloom.

See also:

• Ivan Shishkin in the catalog "ARTISTS & IMAGES OF THE MAGAZINE"