Letters. Documents. Memories: Isaac Levitan

This book includes letters of the great Russian artist, the unsurpassed master of the landscape of Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900). He was familiar with many prominent representatives of Russian literature and art: A.P. Chekhov, V. D. Polenov, A. N. Benois, S.P. Diaghilev – and conducted correspondence with them. The collection also published documents related to the Levitan training period at the Moscow Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Sculpture. The memories of the contemporaries of Levitan – his close friends, colleagues in the workshop – complement the publication. In the memoirs and letters, Levitan does not appear as a venerable artist, not only as a patriot, singing a unique Russian landscape, but as a person with his sorrows and joys, loving hunting, a good company and life in nature. Levitan traveled a lot, visited Italy, France, where he got acquainted with the works of great painters, especially the impressionists, in Finland, and later, for health reasons, in Germany. Levitan entered the partnership of Peres …

Author
Levitan Isaac Ilyich
Publisher
Ig Lenizdat, 2014
Series
Lenizza-classic
Genre
Culture and art figures