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Isaac Levitan
Sign in to saveAlso 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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Wikidata facts
- 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
- Genre
- Impressionism
- Movement
- realism
- Image
- Isaac Levitan selfportrait1880.jpg
- Work location
- Lake Como
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- topic's main category
- 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
- related category
- Category:Paintings by Isaac Levitan
- 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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