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Vassili Dmitrievich Polenov

Vassili Dmitrievich Polenov (1844 - 1927) was active/lived in Russian Federation.  Vassili Polenov is known for Realist land-and seascape, portrait and figure painting-"en plein aire".

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.  A native of St.Petersburg, Polenov studied under Pavel Chistyakov and in the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1863 to 1871. He was classmate and close friend to Rafail Levitsky, fellow Peredvizhniki artist and famous photographer. Their letters which remain today in Polenov's house museum are an interesting account of the many art exhibitions, movements and artists of their day.

As bachelors, Polenov and Levitsky lived and worked together in "Devich'e Pole" (the name of the street "Maiden's Field"), in an attic of the Olsufevsky House (the home of Rafail Levitsky's future wife Anna Vasilevna Olsufevsky). This house is illustrated by Polenov in his painting, Grandmother's Garden (1878).

Polenov was the pensioner of academy of arts in Italy and France, where he painted a number of pictures in the spirit of Academism on subjects taken from the E   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3138 characters.]  Artist bio

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