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This document provides a timeline of key events in the life and career of Russian landscape painter Isaac Levitan: 1) Levitan was born in 1860 in Lithuania to a poor but educated Jewish family, moved to Moscow as a child, and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1873. 2) In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Levitan established himself as a landscape painter in Russia and participated in exhibitions with the Peredvizhniki artistic group. 3) Levitan died in 1900 at the young age of 40, leaving no children but having advanced the genre of landscape painting and achieved recognition as a leading Russian landscape artist.

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This document provides a timeline of key events in the life and career of Russian landscape painter Isaac Levitan: 1) Levitan was born in 1860 in Lithuania to a poor but educated Jewish family, moved to Moscow as a child, and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1873. 2) In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Levitan established himself as a landscape painter in Russia and participated in exhibitions with the Peredvizhniki artistic group. 3) Levitan died in 1900 at the young age of 40, leaving no children but having advanced the genre of landscape painting and achieved recognition as a leading Russian landscape artist.

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1876 1884 1894 1897

Savvinskaya sloboda near Zvenigorod. Spring in Italy.

Sunny Day.
1889 Over Eternal Peace.

1895
1879
Shore. Spring, High Water.

1892 Golden Autumn.


1898
Autumn Day.

1880 Silence.

1900
The Vladimirka.
March.

Isaac Ilyich Levitan


August 30, 1860 – August 4 1900
Classical Russian landscape painter.
Advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".
Lake, Russia.(unfinished)
Autumn Landscape. Evening Bell. Birch Forrest.

1860 - Born in a shtetl of 1873- Entered the 1879 - Was forced by the 1884 - Participated in the 1900 - Died at the age of
Wirballen, Kowno region, Moscow School of Russian Empire to move mobile art exhibition by 40, leaft no children.
now Lithuania, into a poor Painting, Sculpture to the suburb of the group known as the 1897 - Was elected to the
but educated Jewish family. and Architecture. Saltykovka, but returned Peredvizhniki . Imperial Academy of
to Moscow in the fall.
1870 - Moved to Moscow 1898 - was named the head of the
with his family. Landscape Studio of his alma mater.

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