The page contains the most famous paintings Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich.
Kramskoy is one of the founders and main ideologist of the Wanderers association.
The main event of the first exhibition of the Wanderers was Kramskoy’s painting “Christ in the Desert”. But the most famous and popular painting later became the painting “Unknown”.
Kramskoy, like no one else, left us a lot of portraits of great figures of his time.
Self-portrait of Kramskoy.
Unknown. Kramskoy.
The most mysterious and intriguing painting by Kramskoy. And the most famous.
But the prototype, the woman with whom the artist painted, is completely unknown. The face immediately catches your eye. The woman's gaze is cold and arrogant, she is dressed in the most latest fashion. Sitting in a stroller against the backdrop of winter St. Petersburg with its Alexandrinsky Theater.
The photo shows the painting “Bouquet of Flowers. Phloxes." Kramskoy. A rare still life for Kramskoy.
Kramskoy's paintings almost always depict people.
A girl with a loose braid. Kramskoy.
What a sad face the girl has, what a sad look!
Surely Kramskoy himself experienced disappointment in life, emptiness and torment. It is no coincidence that the painting was without spectators for many years, being in the artist’s studio.
A girl sits and her gaze is turned to nowhere, to emptiness.
Portrait of Sofia Nikolaevna Kramskoy, the artist’s wife. She is reading a book enthusiastically.
Herodias. Kramskoy.
There is a religious plot here. Herodias is guilty of the death of John the Baptist, who openly condemned her marriage to her uncle.
And after the murder of John, Herodias wished to look at his severed head and enjoy the long-awaited victory over the enemy. In the picture there is a poisonous red color all around, the color of blood and murder! And this is not so much a religious plot as a moral one, or more precisely a plot of immorality.
Peasant with a bridle. Kramskoy. Epic peasant!
Kramskoy's paintings often depict ordinary people, people of the people! And this picture is a kind of summation of numerous portraits of peasants. The model was a real peasant Mina Moiseev. Wise calm and good humor on his face!
Forest path. Kramskoy.
A rare landscape for Kramskoy without people. Kramskoy's paintings are almost always with people!
Moonlight night. Kramskoy.
The original title of the painting was “Magic Night”.
And indeed the night is magical, but it’s the magical moon that makes it so! The moon illuminated many details in the night with its bright light. In the center, a beautiful and thoughtful girl in a chic white dress sits on a bench.
In front of her is a pond with water lilies. Behind her is a park with mighty trees! The picture is filled with lyricism and mystery!
Moses' prayer after the Israelites crossed the Red Sea.
Nekrasov during the period of the Last Songs.
At the head of the dying Nekrasov, Kramskoy placed a portrait of Dobrolyubov and a bust of Belinsky. So he depicted in the name of what the poet lived and worked!
Offended Jewish boy
In the photo is “Beekeeper”. Kramskoy.
Kramskoy's paintings often depict a simple Russian peasant.
Forest worker. Kramskoy.
Polesovshchik is an old word meaning forester.
Other titles of the painting are “A Man with a Club” and “A Man in a Shot-Cut Hat.”
Kramskoy wrote such a formidable and strong forester.
Kramskoy also commented on this portrait with the words that it is from such men that the popular uprisings of Razin and Pugachev are formed.
Portrait of Alexander III
This is no longer a hero of the people, but a hero above the people. However, the king was the best, but he drank a lot.
Portrait of Anatoly Ivanovich Kramskoy, the artist’s son.
Portrait of Vera Nikolaevna Tretyakova
Wonderful portraits by Kramskoy!
Portrait of the great Doctor Botkin
Portrait of I. I. Shishkin. Kramskoy.
Most famous portrait Shishkina!
And this is Shishkin against the backdrop of nature. Surely Shishkin admires the trees.
Kramskoy himself hardly separated portraits from paintings. And on this canvas, the powerful and uninhibited Shishkin is depicted against the backdrop of a sunny forest clearing. Kramskoy's portraits and paintings are magnificent!
Portrait of the great Tretyakov
Portrait of Goncharov. Kramskoy.
Kramskoy was born on May 27, 1837 in the city of Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh province, into a poor middle-class family. His attraction to art did not meet with the support of his family, and he was forced to paint on his own. Having become a retoucher for the traveling photographer Danilevsky, he traveled with him to many provincial cities and finally ended up in St. Petersburg. There he met young artists who advised him to take up painting seriously, and at their insistence, in 1857 he entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
The inertia that reigned there provoked protest from progressive democratic youth. Kramskoy led the young artistic forces in the struggle for realism in art against classicism abstracted from life. Several people walked out of the academy in protest. The performance of the artists marked new era in the development of Russian art. “It’s time to think about creating a Russian school national art"- said Kramskoy.
In the early 70s, the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions arose. It united leading Russian artists - V. G. Perov, V. E. Makovsky, A. K. Savrasov, I. I. Shishkin. A.I. Kuindzhi and others. Later it included I.E. Repin and V.I. Surikov. The soul and leader of this organization was Kramskoy.
Painting "Mermaids". Ivan Kramskoy
For the first traveling exhibition in 1871, Kramskoy presented the painting “Mermaids” based on the story of N.V. Gogol “May Night”. In this painting, the artist wanted to convey the magical charm of moonlight. Mermaids move smoothly near an overgrown pond. The bluish-green moonlight makes everything around mysterious and enigmatic...
Painting "Moonlit Night". Ivan Kramskoy
Kramskoy returned to depicting moonlight in 1880. They paint a romantic, deeply poetic picture “Moonlit Night”.
Mighty poplars lined the alley. Lush bushes are showered with white flowers. White water lilies were found in the pond. Everything is illuminated by fabulous moonlight. A woman full of charm, quiet lyrical sadness and mystery sits on a bench in a white robe.
Painting "Christ in the Desert". Artist: Kramskoy
At the next exhibition, the painting “Christ in the Desert” (1872) appeared. Kramskoy portrays him as an ordinary person. He walked for a long time in silence. Exhausted and tired, he sat down to rest on a stone in the Palestinian desert. The hands are clenched convulsively, the head is lowered. Traces of deep emotions are visible on his face. Christ for Kramskoy is the embodiment of human conscience and duty. The artist was characterized by an unusually keen awareness of his civic duty, an awareness of the need for self-sacrifice in the name of a common cause.
Ivan Kramskoy: painting “Inconsolable Grief”
Among Kramskoy's works there are a number of magnificent female portraits. They showed the artist’s ability to express emotional states person. Painting " Inconsolable grief" (1884) was written after his death little son artist. Kramskoy conveyed his mother’s immeasurable grief - her personal grief, which no one can share with her.
A woman in a tight black dress, leaning her hand on a chair, looks with an absent gaze. She is shocked. Weeping eyes, a wrinkle on the forehead, a gray strand of hair. She brought the handkerchief to her mouth, as if holding back her sobs... The dearest creature left her life, but everything around remained the same: this carpet, and the curtains, and the paintings, and the albums on the table... The coffin is not visible. Only in the chair there are boxes with wreaths and white light cloth, and on the floor there are pots with blooming tulips. The room is filled with gray winter light... The woman’s pose and facial expression embodies a deep emotional drama mother.
Ivan Kramskoy. Description of the painting “Unknown”
Sitting in the carriage, leaning back on a back upholstered in dark yellow leather, is an elegant young woman. She turned slightly towards the sidewalk, feeling admiring glances. In her gaze is the arrogance and pride of a woman aware of her charm. Large sparkling eyes cold and dispassionate. Her figure is silhouetted against the background of the light haze of frosty winter air and the pinkish Anichkov Palace. Strict architecture seems to complement the image of this beautiful, majestic woman. Velvet coat, fur, purple satin ribbons, white ostrich feather, thin leather gloves, tightly fitting arms, emphasize the gracefulness of the figure.
This is a portrait of “Unknown” by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy. Although this picture is not typical for the artist’s work, the mere mention of his name brings to mind the image of this captivating woman.
Kramskoy: portrait of Tolstoy
Kramskoy created a number of portraits of Russian writers - Saltykov-Shchedrin, Nekrasov, L. Tolstoy, Grigorovich. The artist depicts people immersed in deep thought.
Tolstoy's pose is simple and natural. The writer's eyes attract attention, demanding and attentive. Tolstoy appears in Kramskoy’s portrait as a man of will, a clear and energetic mind.
Portraits of peasants
The artist’s democratic views are reflected in a series of peasant images - “Peasant” (1871), “Beekeeper” (1872), “Forester” (1874), “Mina Moiseev” (1883) and others. These are bright types, each characteristic and expressive in its own way.
Kramskoy died on March 25, 1887 while working on another portrait. The paintings and portraits created by the artist are on a par with the best creations of his contemporaries.
T. Shakhova, magazine “Family and School”, 1962, facts of the biography of the artist Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy, paintings, descriptions of paintings, material for essays.
Russian painter and draftsman, master of genre, historical and portrait painting; art critic
Ivan Kramskoy
short biography
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy(June 8, 1837, Ostrogozhsk - April 5, 1887, St. Petersburg) - Russian painter and draftsman, master of genre, historical and portrait painting; art critic.
After graduating from the Ostrogozh district school, Kramskoy was a clerk in the Ostrogozh Duma. In 1853 he began retouching photographs. Kramskoy’s fellow countryman M.B. Tulinov taught him in several techniques “to finish photographic portraits with watercolors and retouching,” then the future artist worked for the Kharkov photographer Yakov Petrovich Danilevsky. In 1856, I. N. Kramskoy arrived in St. Petersburg, where he was engaged in retouching in the then famous photographic studio of Aleksandrovsky.
In 1857, Kramskoy entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts as a student of Professor Markov.
Riot of the fourteen. Artel of artists
Portrait of the artist Shishkin. (1880, Russian Museum)
In 1863, the Academy of Arts awarded him a small gold medal for his painting “Moses Bringing Out Water from a Rock.” Before finishing his studies at the Academy, all that remained was to write a program for a big medal and receive a pension abroad. The Academy Council offered students a competition on a theme from the Scandinavian sagas “The Feast in Valhalla.” All fourteen graduates refused to develop this topic and petitioned to be allowed to each choose a topic of their own choosing. Subsequent events went down in the history of Russian art as the “Revolt of the Fourteen.” The Academy Council refused them, and Professor Tone noted: “If this had happened before, then all of you would have been soldiers!” On November 9, 1863, Kramskoy, on behalf of his comrades, told the council that they, “not daring to think about changing academic regulations, humbly ask the council to exempt them from participating in the competition.” Among these fourteen artists were: I. N. Kramskoy, B. B. Wenig, N. D. Dmitriev-Orenburgsky, A. D. Litovchenko, A. I. Korzukhin, N. S. Shustov, A. I. Morozov , K. E. Makovsky, F. S. Zhuravlev, K. V. Lemokh, A. K. Grigoriev, M. I. Peskov, V. P. Kreitan and N. P. Petrov. The artists who left the Academy formed the “Petersburg Artel of Artists”, which existed until 1871.
In 1865, Markov invited him to help paint the dome of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Due to Markov's illness, the entire main painting of the dome was done by Kramskoy together with the artists Wenig and Koshelev.
In 1863-1868 he taught at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists. In 1869, Kramskoy received the title of academician.
Wandering
The grave of I. N. Kramskoy at the Tikhvin cemetery in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (St. Petersburg)
In 1870, the “Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions” was formed, one of the main organizers and ideologists of which was Kramskoy. Under the influence of the ideas of Russian democratic revolutionaries, Kramskoy defended an opinion consonant with them about the high public role the artist, the fundamental principles of realism, the moral essence of art and its nationality.
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy created a number of portraits of outstanding Russian writers, artists and public figures (such as: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1873; I. I. Shishkin, 1873; Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, 1876; M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1879 - all are V Tretyakov Gallery; portrait of S. P. Botkin (1880) - State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg).
One of famous works Kramskoy - “Christ in the Desert” (1872, Tretyakov Gallery).
A successor to the humanistic traditions of Alexander Ivanov, Kramskoy created a religious turning point in moral and philosophical thinking. He gave the dramatic experiences of Jesus Christ a deeply psychological life interpretation (the idea of heroic self-sacrifice). The influence of ideology is noticeable in portraits and thematic paintings - “N. A. Nekrasov during the period of “The Last Songs,” 1877-1878; "Unknown", 1883; “Inconsolable Grief”, 1884 - all in the Tretyakov Gallery.
USSR postal envelope, 1987:
150 years since the birth of Kramskoy
The democratic orientation of Kramskoy's works, his critical insightful judgments about art, and persistent research into objective criteria for assessing the characteristics of art and their influence on it, developed democratic art and a worldview on art in Russia in the last third of the 19th century.
IN last years Kramskoy was sick with a heart aneurysm. The artist died from an aortic aneurysm on March 24 (April 5), 1887, while working on a portrait of Dr. Rauchfuss, when he suddenly bent over and fell. Rauchfuss tried to help him, but it was too late. I. N. Kramskoy was buried at the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery. In 1939, the ashes were transferred to the Tikhvin cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra with the installation of a new monument.
Installed in Tsarskoye Selo sculptural composition Kramskoy and Unknown by sculptor Alexander Taratynov.
Family
- Sofya Nikolaevna Kramskaya (1840-1919, nee Prokhorova) - wife
- Nikolai (1863-1938) - architect
- Sophia - daughter, artist, repressed
- Anatoly (02/01/1865-1941) - official of the Department of Railway Affairs of the Ministry of Finance
- Mark (? −1876) - son
Addresses in St. Petersburg
- 1863 - apartment building of A.I. Likhacheva - Sredny Avenue, 28;
- 1863-1866 - 17th line V.O., building 4, apartment 4;
- 1866-1869 - Admiralteysky Prospekt, building 10;
- 1869 - 03/24/1887 - Eliseev's house - Birzhevaya line, 18, apt. 5.
Gallery
Kramskoy's works
Mermaids, 1871
Christ in the Desert, 1872
Self-portrait. 1867
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy(1837-1887) - outstanding artist second half of the 19th century century, occupies one of the leading places in the history of Russian artistic culture. Having matured early, thinking and well-read, he quickly gained authority among his comrades and, naturally, became one of the leaders of the “revolt of the fourteen” in 1863, when a group of graduates refused to write graduation pictures on a given mythological subject. After the rebels left the Academy of Arts, it was Kramskoy who headed the Artel of Artists created on his initiative. Kramskoy is one of the main founders of the Peredvizhniki association, a subtle art critic, passionately interested in the fate of Russian art, he was the ideologist of a whole generation of realist artists. He took part in the development of the Charter of the Partnership and immediately became not only one of the most active and authoritative members of the board, but also the ideologist of the Partnership, defending and justifying the main positions. What distinguished him from other leaders of the Partnership was his independence of worldview, rare breadth of views, sensitivity to everything new in artistic process and intolerance to any dogmatism.
The work of Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy coincided with the most striking period in the history of Russian realistic art, when critical realism in painting and literature reaches its highest rise and acquires great importance in the world XIX culture century. However, the role of the artist in the history of Russian art is not limited to his personal creativity: with his gift as a teacher, an ideologist of a new direction, and with all his social activities, Kramskoy had a huge influence on the minds of his contemporaries.
A girl with a loose braid. 1873
Kramskoy was born in the city of Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh province. The future artist's early interest in art over time turned into a persistent attraction to creativity. The young Kramskoy worked for some time as a retoucher for the photographer Danilevsky and, as an assistant, endlessly wandered around the provincial cities of Russia. Finally, having arrived in St. Petersburg, he fulfills his dream - he enters the Academy of Arts. However, the bright hopes of getting to know the secrets of great art were not destined to be realized, since at that time the main principles of academic teaching remained the outlived ideas of classicism, which did not correspond at all to the new time. Advanced social circles set artists the task of being a broad and truthful father of reality. The appearance at this time of N. G. Chernyshevsky’s dissertation “The Aesthetic Relationship of Art to Reality” gave special weight to issues of art.
In the fall of 1863, fourteen academicians were offered a “program” on a theme from the Scandinavian sagas “The Feast in Valhalla.” Young artists refused to write on this topic and left the Academy. The break with the Academy was led by Kramskoy. This decisive step threatened former students with political distrust from the state and material poverty and therefore required enormous courage. Having led this movement, Kramskoy took responsibility for future fate Russian art. For the purpose of mutual assistance and material support, an Artel of Artists was created, which later became the base of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Public figure by vocation, Kramskoy becomes one of the most active members of this organization. One of the main goals of the Partnership was the development of democratic art, not only in the form of organization, but also in ideological direction. In Russian Peredvizhniki, democratic realism as a phenomenon of world art has reached high heights. The first traveling exhibition was opened on November 21, 1871 in the building of the Academy of Arts. In the spring of 1872, she was transported to Moscow and then to Kyiv. Unlike academic ones, traveling exhibitions “moved” from city to city, arousing keen interest everywhere. Thus began the activities of this public organization, which for a number of decades united all the leading artists of Russia.
Mermaids. 1871
Kramskoy participated in the first traveling exhibition big picture“Mermaids” based on the story “May Night” by N.V. Gogol. Here the artist was attracted by the opportunity to convey the moonlight in the language of painting, which so poetically changes everything around. Kramskoy wrote: “I’m glad that with such a plot I didn’t completely break my neck, and even if I didn’t catch the moon, something fantastic still came out.”
For the next exhibition of the Itinerants, Kramskoy painted the painting “Christ in the Desert” (1872), which was conceived as the first in a series of (never realized) paintings based on gospel subjects. The artist wrote that his task was to show internal struggle a person immersed in deep thought about a choice life path. The painting “Christ in the Desert” was perceived by contemporaries as a symbol of a person’s high civic duty
Christ in the desert. 1972
In the summer of 1873, Kramskoy and his family settled in the Tula province, not far from the estate of L.N. Tolstoy. Taking advantage of this proximity, Kramskoy painted a portrait of Tolstoy. Strength and solidity of personality, a clear and energetic mind - this is how the writer appears in this portrait. From the whole gallery of portraits of L. N. Tolstoy, written by N. N. Ge, I. E. Repin, L. O. Pasternak, Kramskoy’s portrait is one of the best. In turn, the artist himself served as the prototype of the artist Mikhailov in the novel “Anna Karenina”. Almost at the same time, portraits of I. I. Shishkin and N. A. Ne-krasov were created. The portrait of “Nekrasov during the period of “Last Songs” (1877) was painted at a time when Nekrasov was already seriously ill, so the sessions lasted 10-15 minutes. The most strong impression from the portrait - this is the contrast between the clarity of mind, creative inspiration and the physical weakness of the dying poet.
Among Kramskoy’s works there are a number of poetic female images, such as “Girl with a Loose Braid” or the famous “Stranger”, which was said to be the prototype of Anna Karenina. Back in 1874, the artist created a whole series of peasant types, the most powerful in character among them is “Forest Man” (1874).
In the 80s, Kramskoy painted the painting “Inconsolable Grief,” which is largely autobiographical: the artist survived the death of two children. Kaya and in “The Widow” by Fedotov, the theme of human grief sounds mournfully here. The face and the very image of the mother who lost her child are striking.
This woman, killed by an irreparable misfortune, exists as if outside of time, it seems to have stopped. Since 1883, the artist’s health deteriorated, and Kramskoy’s last years were extremely difficult. Constant household chores and work on orders do not allow him to finish work on the painting “Laughter” (“Christ before the people”), the idea of which involved the development of the theme “Christ in the Desert”, the theme of the sacrificial fate of man.
On March 25, 1887, while working on a portrait of Dr. Rauchfus, Kramskoy unexpectedly dies.
Ivan Kramskoy painted many portraits; Of these, portraits of S. P. Botkin, I. I. Shishkin, Grigorovich, Mrs. Vogau, the family (female portraits) of the Gunzburgs, a Jewish boy, A. S. Suvorin, unknown, Count L. N. Tolstoy, Count Litke deserve special mention , D. A. Tolstoy, Goncharov and... They are distinguished by their complete similarity and talented characterization of the person from whom the portrait was painted.
Kramskoy also engaged in engraving on copper with strong vodka; Among the etchings he executed, the best were portraits of Emperor Alexander III, when he was the crown prince, Peter the Great and Taras Shevchenko.
Kramskoy did not have much education, he always regretted it and made up for this deficiency with constant serious reading and community intelligent people, as a result of which he himself was a useful interlocutor for artists (Kramskoy is known for his pedagogical activity, as a teacher since 1862 at the drawing school of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists).
Without Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy it is impossible to imagine a democratic artistic culture second half of the nineteenth century. He was rightfully the ideological leader, conscience and brain of the Wandering movement.It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Kramskoy’s artistic and literary heritage for Russian culture. Its main focus artistic activity- this is a deep interest in understanding the man of his era, whether the artist depicted him in the guise of a gospel tale or in the guise of his contemporary. Social activity Kramskoy, his work became a school for a whole generation of Russian artists.
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Self-portrait. 1874.
The Contemplator, 1876
Nekrasov during the period of the Last Songs. 1877-1878
Moses' prayer after the Israelites crossed the Black Sea. 1861
Herodias. 1884-1886
While reading. Portrait of Sofia Nikolaevna Kramskoy, the artist’s wife. 1866-1869
Female portrait. 1884
Female portrait. 1867
A girl with laundry on a yoke among the grass. 1874
Peasant's head. 1874
Convalescent. 1885
Bouquet of flowers. Phloxes. 1884
Actor Alexander Pavlovich Lensky as Petruchio in Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew. 1883
Portrait of Vera Nikolaevna Tretyakova. 1879
Portrait of Vera Nikolaevna Tretyakova. 1876
Portrait of Anatoly Ivanovich Kramskoy, the artist’s son. 1882
Portrait of the artist Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov. 1874
Portrait of the artist Mikhail Klodt. 1872
Portrait of the artist K.A. Savitsky.
Portrait of the artist I.K. Aivazovsky
Portrait of the artist I. E. Repin
Portrait of the artist Grigory Myasoedov
Portrait of the artist Alexey Bogolyubov. 1869
Portrait of the philosopher Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov. 1885
Portrait of Sofia Ivanovna Kramskoy, the artist’s daughter. 1882
Portrait of the sculptor Mark Matveevich Antokolsky. 1876
Portrait of the poet Yakov Petrovich Polonsky. 1875
Portrait of the poet Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov. 1877
Portrait of the poet and artist Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko. 1871
Portrait of the writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov. 1878
Portrait of the writer Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov (N. Shchedrin). 1879
Portrait of the writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. 1873
Portrait of the writer Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov. 1874
Portrait of the writer Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich. 1876
Portrait of singer Elizaveta Andreevna Lavrovskaya, on the stage in the Assembly of the Nobility. 1879
Portrait of Nikolai Ivanovich Kramskoy, the artist’s son. 1882
Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna
Portrait of the publisher and publicist Alexey Sergeevich Suvorin. 1881
Portrait of I.I. Shishkin. 1880
Portrait of the artist Ivan Shishkin. 1873
Laughter (Hail, King of the Jews). Late 1870s - 1880s
Poet Apollo Nikolaevich Maikov. 1883
Portrait of the artist F. A. Vasiliev. 1871
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