Portrait of Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov

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1830-1897

Russian Peredvizhniki Painter

Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (May 24, 1830 - October 8, 1897) was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style.
Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. He began to draw early and in 1838 he enrolled as a student of professor Rabus at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (graduated in 1850), and immediately began to specialize in landscape painting.
In 1852, he traveled to Ukraine. Then, in 1854 by the invitation of the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna, President of the Imperial Academy of Arts, he moved to the neighborhood of St. Petersburg. In 1857, Savrasov became a teacher at the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. His best disciples, Isaac Levitan and Konstantin Korovin, remembered their teacher with admiration and gratitude.
In 1857, he married Sophia Karlovna Hertz, sister of art historian K. Hertz. In their home they entertained artistic people and collectors including Pavel Tretyakov. Savrasov became especially close with Vasily Perov. Perov helped him paint the figures of the boat trackers in Savrasov's Volga near Yuryevets, Savrasov painted landscapes for Perov's Bird catcher and Hunters on Bivouac.
In the 1860s, he traveled to England to see the International Exhibition, and to Switzerland. In one of his letters he wrote that no academies in the world could so advance an artist as the present world exhibition. The painters who influenced him most were British painter John Constable and Swiss painter Alexandre Calame.
The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) is considered by many critics to be the high point in Savrasov's artistic career. Using a common, even trivial, episode of birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape, Savrasov emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter to spring. It was a new type of lyrical landscape painting, called later by critics the mood landscape. The painting brought him fame.
In 1870, he became a member of the Peredvizhniki group, breaking with government-sponsored academic art.
In 1871, after the death of his daughter, there was a crisis in his art. The misfortunes in his personal life and, possibly, dissatisfaction with his artistic career were the reasons of his tragedy he became an alcoholic. All attempts of his relatives and friends to help him were in vain.
The last years of his life Savrasov led the life of a pauper, wandering from shelter to shelter. Only the doorkeeper of the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture and Pavel Tretyakov, founder of the Tretyakov Gallery, were present at his funeral in 1897.

52 Alexey Savrasov Paintings

Coast during Winter, 1891 by Alexey Savrasov | Painting Reproduction

Coast during Winter 1891

Oil Painting
$442
Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: SAK-14082
Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov
Original Size: 27 x 21 cm
Private Collection

Spring Motive, 1877 by Alexey Savrasov | Painting Reproduction

Spring Motive 1877

Oil Painting
$405
Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: SAK-18514
Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov
Original Size: 31 x 25 cm
Public Collection

The Beginning of Spring, 1888 by Alexey Savrasov | Painting Reproduction

The Beginning of Spring 1888

Oil Painting
$483
Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: SAK-18515
Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov
Original Size: 50 x 73.5 cm
The Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Landscape with a Hut, 1866 by Alexey Savrasov | Painting Reproduction

Landscape with a Hut 1866

Oil Painting
$729
Canvas Print
$50.56
SKU: SAK-18516
Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov
Original Size: 43.5 x 62.5 cm
Public Collection

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