Isaak Levitan

Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860 – 1900) was born in Kybartai in the Kaunas region of Lithuania. Levitan's family moved to Moscow in the beginning of 1870. He was a classical Russian landscape painter who focused on creating a mood in his work. His work is interesting because of this poetry, which he was able to create because of his great skill in capturing the illusion of a place or landscape, with its strong atmospheric perspective and form. His use of edges is also very sophisticated, rivalling that of John Singer Sargent. If you look at his natural forms, such as his clouds and trees, you can also see his skills in observation and itness. Levitan's teachers were the famous Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Perov and Vasily Polenov. During his study in the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture, Levitan befriended Konstantin Korovin, another of my favorite painters.