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Isaac Levitan

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Also known as Isaak Levitan, Isaḳ Leṿiṭan, Isaac Iljitsch Levitan, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, Isaac Ilyitch Levitan, Isaak Il'ich Levitan, Isaak Il'ic Levitan, Isaak Ilyich Levitan

Russian artist (1860-1900)

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Isaac Levitan was a male painter and visual artist who held citizenship in the Russian Empire. He was born in Kybartai, Kėdainiai, and died in Moscow. Levitan studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His artistic work focused on painting and the visual arts, specifically within the genres of landscape painting and Impressionism, as well as the realism movement.

Notable works by Levitan include *Golden Autumn*, *Lake. Russia*, and *A Quiet Monastery*. His paintings are held in the collections of the Finnish National Gallery, Chuvashian State Arts Museum, Hecht Museum, and Tretyakov Gallery. He is described in the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. Levitan is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Place of birth
Kėdainiai
Place of death
Moscow
Occupation
visual artist
Languages spoken
Russian
Notable work
A Quiet Monastery
Field of work
landscape painting
Movement
realism
Image
Isaac Levitan selfportrait1880.jpg
Work location
Lake Como
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Category:Isaac Levitan
place of burial
Novodevichy Cemetery
Commons category
Isaac Levitan
date of birth
1860-10-03
date of death
1900-08-04
Commons Creator page
Isaac Levitan
name in native language
יצחק לעװיטאַן
manner of death
natural causes
unmarried partner
Sofia Kuvshinnikova
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Encyclopedic overview

Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1860 – 4 August [O.S. 22 July] 1900) was a Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".

Life and work

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