Isaak Levitan

1.

Presentation
‘Levitan’

2.

• Isaak Levitan
was born in
18 August
1860 in
western part
of Russia,not
far from
border town
Verdgbolovo
in intellectual
Jewish
family.

3.

• He lived in a poor big family there were not only
parents, but an elder brother and two sisters. He
even didn’t go to school.

4.

• Levitan’s aptitude for painting appeared in early
age. Late he entered to MUGVIZ. His favourite
teacher was Savrasov.

5.

• He had a
great
sense of
nature. So
nature was
his favorite
subject.

6.

• A real recognition came to Levitan in 1896.
Europeans were impressed by Russian
landscapes, because they felt a strong desire
to live in them.

7.

• In 1898 an
Academy
of art
sentenced
a status of
an
academic.

8.

• 22 July
1900
Levitan
died a
few days
before his
40th
birthday

9.

• The painter made a great influence not only on
Russian but on European art of 20th century with
his works. He became founder the genre of
landscape and made our culture reacher.