Isaac Levitan
1861-1900

One of the great masters of Russian landscape, whose influence is still felt to this day, Levitan is, in terms of scope and influence, possibly the Turner of Russia. Levitan was the founder of the ‘mood’ landscape, and was born in the Pale of Settlement to the family of a rabbi. Self-educated, he learned both German and French to the proficiency of a teacher.

At the beginning of 1870 the Levitan family moved to Moscow and Isaac entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1875 the school admitted Nikolai Chekhov, brother of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who would later become Levitan’s closest friend. >> Read more

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Version of the painting ‘Moonlit Night, The Great Road’