Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832–98)
Woods and Forests
  • Birch Forest (1871)
  • Oak Grove on a Grey Day (1873)
  • Thickets (1881)
  • The Forest, Distant view (1884)
  • Morning in a Pine Forest (1886)
  • Oak Grove (1887)
  • Rain in oak forest (1891)
  • Countess Mordvinova's Wood, Peterhof (1891)
  • Forest (1895)
  • Pine Wood, Mast Timber in the Vyatka Governorate (undated)
  • A Walk in the Woods (undated)
  • At the Edge of an Oak Wood (undated)
  • Evening (undated)
  • Felling Trees (undated)
  • Pines in Sunlight (undated)
  • Flowers at the Edge of a Wood (undated)
    • Winter
  • Winter (1890)
  • In the Wild North (1891)
    • Other Landscape
  • View on the Outskirts of St. Petersburg (1856)
  • Rye (1878)
  • Apiary (1880)
  • Small Oak Trees (1880)
  • Pine on Sand (1884)
  • Corner of an Overgrown Garden (1884)
  • Rocky Landscape (1889)
  • After the Storm in Meri Hovi (1891)
  • Along the Seashore (undated)
  • Midday in the Environs of Moscow (undated)
  • Footpath in the Crimean Mountains (undated)
    • Biography
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    Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.

    Biography
    Shishkin was born to a Russian merchant family in Yelabuga of Vyatka Governorate (today Republic of Tatarstan) and graduated from the Kazan gymnasium. Then he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for four years. After that, he attended the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860 and graduated with the highest honours and a gold medal. He received the imperial scholarship for his further studies in Europe.

    Five years later Shishkin became a member of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and was professor of painting from 1873 to 1898. At the same time, Shishkin headed the landscape painting class at the Highest Art School in St. Petersburg.

    For some time, Shishkin lived and worked in Switzerland and Germany on scholarship from the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. On his return to Saint Petersburg, he became a member of the Circle of the Itinerants and of the Society of Russian Etchers. He also took part in exhibitions at the Academy of Arts, the All-Russian Exhibition in Moscow (1882), the Nizhniy Novgorod (1896), and the World Fairs (Paris, 1867 and 1878, and Vienna, 1873). Shishkin's painting method was based on analytical studies of nature. He became famous for his forest landscapes and was also an outstanding draftsman and a printmaker.

    Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin owned a dacha in Vyra, south from St. Petersburg. There he painted some of his finest landscapes. His works are notable for poetic depiction of seasons in the woods, wild nature, animals and birds. In 1891, he was appointed professor-director of the landscape class in the Academy's Advanced Art School. In 1898, he completed his painting The Pine Grove and died on 20 March in St. Petersburg, while working on his new painting.

    A minor planet 3558 Shishkin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978, is named after him
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