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Aleksei Kondratievitch Savrasov BIOGRAPHY
1830 Moscow, Russia - 1897. Known for: Lyrica landscape painting.
Russian landscape painter Alexei Savrasov was born in Moscow in 1830. He specialized in landscapes while enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture from 1838-1850, and is credited with... Read full biography
Russian landscape painter Alexei Savrasov was born in Moscow in 1830. He specialized in landscapes while enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture from 1838-1850, and is credited with being the originator of the lyrical landscape style of painting in Russia. Lyrical landscape painting... Read full biography
Russian landscape painter Alexei Savrasov was born in Moscow in 1830. He specialized in landscapes while enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture from 1838-1850, and is credited with being the originator of the lyrical landscape style of painting in Russia. Lyrical landscape painting "represented a turning back to nature, giving commonplace subjects. a sense of poetry, " in contrast to the tired Romanticism of the academic painting that flooded Russia during the latter half of... Read full biography
Russian landscape painter Alexei Savrasov was born in Moscow in 1830. He specialized in landscapes while enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture from 1838-1850, and is credited with being the originator of the lyrical landscape style of painting in Russia. Lyrical landscape painting "represented a turning back to nature, giving commonplace subjects. a sense of poetry, " in contrast to the tired Romanticism of the academic painting that flooded Russia during the latter half of the 19th century. In 1854, he was awarded the title of Fellow of the Academy for his paintings Seashore in the Neighborhood of Oranienbaum and View of the Neighborhood of Oranienbaum. Director of the landscape studio at the Moscow School of Painting,... Read full biography
Russian landscape painter Alexei Savrasov was born in Moscow in 1830. He specialized in landscapes while enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture from 1838-1850, and is credited with being the originator of the lyrical landscape style of painting in Russia. Lyrical landscape painting "represented a turning back to nature, giving commonplace subjects. a sense of poetry, " in contrast to the tired Romanticism of the academic painting that flooded Russia during the latter half of the 19th century. In 1854, he was awarded the title of Fellow of the Academy for his paintings Seashore in the Neighborhood of Oranienbaum and View of the Neighborhood of Oranienbaum. Director of the landscape studio at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture from 1857-1882, Savrasov encouraged his students to move outside, to work... Read full biography
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Alexei Savrasov, Aleksei Kondrat'evich Savrosovich
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Russian landscape painter Alexei Savrasov was born in Moscow in 1830. He specialized in landscapes while enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture from 1838-1850, and is credited with being the originator of the lyrical landscape style of painting in Russia. Lyrical landscape painting "represented a turning back to nature, giving commonplace subjects...a sense of poetry, " in contrast to the tired Romanticism of the academic painting that flooded Russia during the latter half of the 19th century. In 1854, he was awarded the title of Fellow of the Academy for his paintings Seashore in the Neighborhood of Oranienbaum and View of the Neighborhood of Oranienbaum.
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