Shishkin Wikipedia Biography

After graduating from this institution, he and G. not content with classes in the walls of the Academy, Sh. Already in the first year of his stay at the Academy, two small silver medals were awarded to him for a cool drawing and for a look in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. In G. acquired, together with this last award, the right to travel abroad as a pensioner of the academy, he went to the city in Zurich Sh.

Hence he made an excursion to Geneva in order to get acquainted with the works of Dida and Kalam, and then moved to Düsseldorf and wrote there by order of N. Bykov “The view in the vicinity of Dusseldorf” - a picture that was sent to in SPb. Abroad, in addition to painting, he was engaged in a lot of penalty; His works in this kind were in the surprise of foreigners, and some were placed in the Dusseldorf Museum next to the drawings of first -class European masters.

Having stomped on the fatherland, since he often made travels with an artistic purpose in Russia, he almost annually exhibited his works first at the Academy, and then, after the partnership of mobile exhibitions was established, he made drawings with a pen, and from the city. All these works every year increased the reputation of one of the best Russian painters of the landscape and an incomparable, in its own way, an aquaforter.

After the new charter of the Academy came into force, in the city, he died suddenly on March 8, among Russian landscapes S., in all his works, he is an amazing expert on plant forms, reproducing them with a subtle understanding of both a general nature and the smallest distinctive features of any breed of trees, bushes and herbs. Whether he was taken up for the image of a pine or spruce forest, individual pines and ate, just like their combination, they received their true physiognomy, without any embellishment or incummers - that species that are also explained and determined by the soil and climate, where the artist forced them to grow.

Whether he portrayed oak or birch, they took his true forms in the foliage, branches, trunks, roots and in all details. The very terrain under the trees - stones, sand or clay, soil unevenness, overgrown with ferns and other forest grasses, dry leaves, brushwood, lobby, etc. But this realism often harmed him to the landscapes: in many of them she obscured the general mood, informed them not of paintings, conceived not with the aim of exciting this or another feeling in the viewer, but random, albeit excellent sketches.

It must also be noted that with Sh. Therefore, the talent of Sh. The paintings and drawings are so numerous that the indication even on the most important of them would take too much space; Especially a lot of them were dispersed between art lovers after the arranged in the city, it will be enough to mention the Shishkin works in public collections. In total, the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery is richer.

There are paintings in it: “Lawning”, “Half in the vicinity of Moscow”, “Pine forest”, “Gorely forest”, “Rozh”, “Debre”, “Paskeka”, “Fir Forest” and “Morning in a pine forest” and, in addition, seventeen workshops of drawings. The museum of Emperor Alexander III owns the paintings: “Ship Grove”, “Polyanka with pine trees”, “Forest wilderness” and “Polyana”, five sketches and two drawings.

The Moscow Public Museum recently entered, according to the will of K. Soldatenkova, the painting "View in the vicinity of Moscow" and one drawing. All performed by S. Rovinsky counts up to hundreds; He indicates, in addition, to 68 original lithographs and 15 zincographic experiments of this master. Beggrov, in –85. Subsequently, prints from the boards that served for this album, corrected and somewhat redone, were published, with the increase in several other etchings, in the form of a new album, Mr.

Marx. Bulgakov, "Album of Russian painting. Pictures and drawings I. Palchikov, “List of printed sheets I. II, St. Petersburg.