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Ilya Repin

Russian artist

Died when: 86 years 55 days (1033 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Ilya Repin

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian: ???? ???????? ?????, romanized: Il'ya Yefimovich Repin) (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is now Ukraine.

He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia during the 19th century.His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1880–1883), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885); and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891).

He is also known for the revealing portraits he made of the leading literary and artistic figures of his time, including Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Pavel Tretyakov and especially Leo Tolstoy, with whom he had a long friendship.

Repin was born in Chuguyev, in Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.His father had served in an Uhlan Regiment in the Russian army, and then sold horses.

Repin began painting icons at age sixteen.He failed at his first effort to enter the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, but went to the city anyway, audited courses, and won his first prizes in 1869 and 1871.

In 1872, after a tour along the Volga River, he presented his drawings at the Academy of Art in St.Petersburg.

The Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich awarded him a commission for a large scale painting, The Barge Haulers of the Volga, which launched his career.

He spent two years in Paris and Normandy, seeing the first Impressionist expositions and learning the techniques of painting in the open air.

He suffered one setback in 1885 when his history portrait of Ivan the Terrible killing his own son in a rage caused a scandal, resulting in the painting being removed from exhibition.

But this was followed by a series of major successes and new commissions.In 1898, with his second wife, he purchased a country house, The Penates, in Kuokkala, Finland (now Repino, Saint Petersburg), close to St.

Petersburg, where they entertained Russian society.In 1905, following the violent repression of street demonstrations by the Tsarist government, he quit his teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts.

He welcomed the February Revolution in 1917, but was appalled by the violence and warfare that followed in the October Revolution.

Finland broke away from Russia in 1917, and Repin was unable to travel to St.Petersburg, even for an exhibition of his own works in 1925.

Repin died on 29 September 1930, at the age of 86, and was buried at the Penates.His home is now a museum and a UNESCO World Heritage site.


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