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Ilya Yefimovich Repin was born in 1844 in the small village of Chuhuiv, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. Repin identified predominantly as a muzhik, or peasant, a man of humble origin. But his impoverished background did not stifle his potential.
- Russian
- July 24, 1844
- Chuhuiv, Russian Empire
- September 29, 1930
Repin began painting icons at age sixteen. He failed at his first effort to enter the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, but went to the city anyway in 1863, audited courses, and won his first prizes in 1869 and 1871. In 1872, after a tour along the Volga River, he presented his drawings at the Academy of Art in St. Petersburg.
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Apr 4, 2024 · In 1894 Repin became professor of historical painting at the academy in St. Petersburg. The powerful Volga Bargemen (1873) epitomizes the stark realism and socially critical cast of much of Repin’s work, which was to serve as a model for Socialist Realist painting in the Soviet Union.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 14, 2023 · In 1856 (aged 12) he started to study under local icon painter Ivan Bukanov. His progress towards his later greatness was slow and steady - Repin worked seven years with Bukanov, earning enough money (and displaying enough talent) to get him to an art school in St Petersburg and then eventually into the Academy of Fine Arts.
The window during which Repin produced his most accomplished oil paintings came towards the end of the 19th century, at a time when his skills and experience had developed considerably from his early days as an aspiring artist.
At the age of 22, Repin began his art career at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the same time as the “Rebellion of the Fourteen,” when 14 young artists left the school after refusing to paint mythological paintings for their diplomas.
Art critics became interested in Repin from the very beginning of his career: from the moment he showed his first significant paintings, such as “Raising of Jairus' Daughter" (1871) and “Barge Haulers on the Volga" (1870-1873, both at the Russian Museum), his work was the subject of discussion and study.
