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	Isaak Levitan (1860-1900)
		Isaak Levitan was born in 1860 in Kibarty, a small town in Lithuania, to the family of a blue-collar railroad worker.
		Levitan painted greatly multiform canvases which served as an invaluable contribution to the advancement of realistic landscape painting in Russia.
		Isaak Levitan was buried at the Novodevichiye cemetery in Moscow.
	www.artsstudio.com /reproductions/new_levitan.htm (762 words)

	Isaac Levitan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian language: Исаак Ильич Левитан, August 30, 1860 - July 22 (August 4 new style), 1900) was a classical Russian landscape art painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape.
		Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kibarti, Kovno region, Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family.
		In the spring 1884, Levitan participated in the mobile art exhibition by the group known as the Peredvizhniki and since 1891 became a member of the Peredvizhniki partnership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Levitan (764 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - LEVITAN, ISAAC (ISAAC ILYICH): (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1892, when Levitan was already widely known and after the award to him of the first prize for his picture "Twilight" at the Art Lovers' Exhibition, the notorious May Laws were enforced in Moscow, and he was permitted to remain there only owing to the influence of powerful friends.
		Levitan's paintings are marked by a thorough knowledge of Russian scenery and types.
		A picture by Levitan, entitled "A Convent on the Eve of a Holiday," was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=299&letter=L (481 words)

	Levitan Paintings Reproduction and Biography
		In the end of 1870s Levitan worked a lot in vicinities of Moscow, and created the special variant of "landscape of mood" in which the shape and a condition of the nature are spiritualized, become carriers of conditions of human soul ("Autumn day.
		In 1897, already world-famous, Levitan was appointed an Academician of the Academy of arts and in 1898 Levitan was named the head of the Landscape Studio at his alma mater.
		Levitan was buried in Dorogomilov Jewish cemetery and in April 1941 was reburied in the Novodevichy Cemetery, next to Chekhov’s necropolis.
	www.allartclassic.com /author_biography.php?p_number=84 (724 words)

	Isaac Levitan Biography - Olga's Gallery
		Levitan was born in 1860 into a poor but educated Jewish family.
		Of course, Levitan’s passionate love for poetry and music, his persistent studying of pleine-air, the sunny paintings of Vasiliy Polenov, who also taught at the School, the works of the French painters of the Barbizon school, of Camille Corot were of great importance for the young artist.
		Levitan’s attitude towards nature and the poetry of his art were in many points akin to the works of Anton Chekhov, who became his friend from the late 1870s.
	www.abcgallery.com /L/levitan/levitanbio.html (703 words)

	The Landscapes of Levitan, the famous russian painter in amazing slide show 7 art screen saver
		Levitan's brush captured the pensive sweep of the Volga, the changing light patterns, the continuous rhythm of life, and the picturesqueness of the landscape.
		Isaac Ilyich Levitan was born on the 30 (18 old style) of August, 1860, in Kibarty, a small place near the railway station of Ver/h-bolovo (Kovno region).
		Levitan likewise valued the achievements of European art, especially the Impressionists; he admired the paintings of the Barbizon school, whose subtle poetry in landscape was close to his own.
	www.7art-screensavers.com /levitan.shtml (2629 words)

	Levitan Family
		Jonina Levitan was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1942 to Nakhum and Ada Yeta nee Rabinovitz.
		Icchak Gerstein was born in Kowno, Lithuania in 1882 to Nakhum and Rivka.
		Rachel Liba Menkevitz nee Levitan was born in Slobodke in 1870 to
	www.eilatgordinlevitan.com /kurenets/k_pages/levitan.html (6321 words)

	Horizons - Artist Biographies - Isaac Ilich Levitan
		Levitan was the son of a railroad employee.
		Levitan was a member of the Moscow Art Lovers Society from 1888, a member of the Association of Traveling Exhibitions from 1891, and a member of the Munich Secession trend from 1897.
		Levitan worked in oils and watercolors, he was a graphic artist, and he created several pastels.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Horizons/En/bio-458.html (274 words)

	Isaac Levitan - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian language: Исаак Ильич Левитан, August 30, 1860 - July 22 (August 4 new style), 1900), a classic Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of mood landscape.
		In the summer of 1890 Levitan went to Yuryevets (Юрьевец;) and among numerous landscapes and etudes he wrote "The View of Krivooserski monastery".
		So the plan of one of his best pictures "The silent monastery" was born, where the image of a silent monastery and planked bridges through the river, connected it with world around, expressed deep reflections of the artist about life.
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	Amazon.com: Isaac Levitan: The Mystery of Nature (Great Painters Series): Books: Alexei Feodorov-Davydov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Levitan's paintings are some of the best landscapes ever painted and this book captures their beauty in large, full color reproductions.
		Isaac Levitan was one of 19th Century Russia's greatest landscape painters, and this book offers beautiful reproductions of his paintings and drawing, most in full color.
		Levitan was definitely the biggest Russian lanscaper of all times, and arguably one of the best landscape artists that ever lived in the world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/1859951406/ref=pd_smaj_1121903609 (780 words)

	Outdoor Painting :: History ::
		Isaac Levitan’s art represented the culmination of Russian Landscape painting of the 19th century.
		It was his ability to evoke the subtlest emotions in his landscapes that helped Levitan to convey the Russian landscape as no one else did.
		Isaac Levitan was a friend of the writer, Anton Chekhov.
	www.outdoorpainting.com /History/Isaac-Levitan.php (327 words)

	Horizons - Self Gallery 1880-1900 - Detail
		The study, which is now in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, was painted in the village of Zatishye in the Tver region, on the estate of Nikolai Panaphidin, Lika Mizinova's uncle; she herself was a friend of the painter Isaac Levitan and the writer Anton Chekhov.
		In this canvas, painted in lifeless faded tones, the decomposition of nature in the fall is rendered with a great deal of finesse; this mood corresponds to the anguish experienced by the artist and the feeling of solitude in his soul.
		Levitan knew better than anyone else how to render the leaden autumn sky of Central Russia, so expressive and so beautiful, by dotting the greyness with clear blue and violet.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Horizons/En/sel-b-251.html (203 words)

	ROSIZO Exhibition projects. Isaac Levitan and his contemporaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russian landscape paintings flowered in art of I. Levitan, whose pictures gathered traditions of Russian landscape art and initiated the next stage of development of this art genre.
		Through his short life (1860 —; 1960) Isaac Levitan managed to create his own style of landscape painting — known as landscape of mood.
		Isaac Levitan is known for his dramatic pictures of Russian nature.
	www.rosizo.ru /eng/levitan/levitan.html (287 words)

	Landscape in the age of Tolstoy: later this month, an exhibition of nineteenth-century Russian landscape painting opens ...
		Isaac Levitan, an itinerant of a younger generation, was also a dedicated landscape painter.
		He was not an 'accountant of leaves', as Shiskin was called, but a 'poet-philosopher of nature', who aimed 'to feel and understand nature "from within" [and] to communicate with nature.' Chekhov came to value highly Levitan's bare and vast landscapes, mentioning them in several of his stories, as Sjen Scheijen notes in the catalogue.
		In his memoirs he writes that both Levitan and he were 'lyricists', and were similar to a new group of artists, the Miriskusniki.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_508_159/ai_n6137270 (748 words)

	Sotheby's - Services & Information - Investor Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Marshes in the Evening, an early work by the Jewish-Russian artist Isaac Ilich Levitan (1860-1900), is undoubtedly one of the artist’s most significant landscape paintings.
		Levitan was just 22 when he painted the oil on canvas, shortly after his graduation from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he had been introduced to the practice of en plein air painting after the popular French Barbizon school.
		Levitan diminishes the importance of narrative elements in his paintings in order to achieve a simple, direct expressive mood.
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	Personality of the Week - Levitan
		He was born in Kybartai, Lithuania, and while he was still a boy his family moved to Moscow where he studied at the Art School.
		In 1889 Levitan visited Paris where he was deeply influenced by the prevailing mood in art, including impressionism.
		He became the major interpreter of Russian landscape in art and has been called the father of Russian landscape painting.
	www.bh.org.il /Names/POW/levitan.asp (118 words)

	Outdoor Painting
		Isaac Levitan Isaac Levitan’s art represented the culmination of Russian Landscape painting of the 19th century.
		His paintings go beyond depicting objective representations of nature; they are suffused with profound philosophical and social significance.
		Isaac Levitan was born in 1860 in Kybartai, Russia (now Lithuania).
	www.outdoorpainting.com /Newsletter/June04a.html (686 words)

	The State Russian Museum. collections.
		Works were acquired from the posthumous shows of the works of Isaac Levitan (1901) and Vasily Vereschagin (1905).
		Other sources were the Travelling Art Exhibitions (Stanislaw Zukowski, Nikolai Kasatkin, Isaac Levitan and Vladimir Makovsky), New Union of Artists (Boris Kustodiev and Nikolai Fokin) and artist's studios (Alexander Golovin and Mikhail Nesterov).
		The museum acquired Isaac Brodsky's Parade, Fyodor Bogorodsky's Homeless Waifs, landscapes and portraits by Sergei Gerasimov and canvases by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Alexander Samokhvalov.
	www.rusmuseum.ru /eng/collections/paintings/xix-xx/index.html (644 words)

	Famous Russian People. Russian painters, Russian artists at www.stpetersburg-guide.com
		In 1875, the Serovs came to live at Abramtsevo, the estate of the industrial tycoon Savva Mamontov near Moscow, and the cultural center of the time, where artists, musicians and actors were always welcome.
		Abramtsevo Art Circle consisted of such famous people as the painters M. Vrubel, brothers Vasnetsovs, I. Levitan, M.
		Serov tried himself in different genres: he was a beautiful landscape painter in a more sensuous and less nostalgic way than another teacher of his, Isaac Levitan: Pond in Abramtsevo (1886), The Overgrown Pond.
	stpetersburg-guide.com /people/serov.shtml (995 words)

	Zvenigorod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many extravagant dachas were built in the neighbourhood.
		Some of these house museums of Sergey Taneev, Anton Chekhov, and Isaac Levitan.
		In 1398, Prince Yuri asked St. Savva, one of the first disciples of Sergii Radonezhsky, to go to Zvenigorod and to establish a monastery on the Storozhi Holm (Watching Hill).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zvenigorod (469 words)

	Visual Art: Realism: Levitan's "Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Landscape, particularly melancholy and lyrical views of central Russian landscapes was another genre at which the wanderers excelled.
		This landscape, entitled "Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park" (1879) is by Isaac Levitan (1860-1900), a painter who never officially joined the organization.
		He was also one of the best friends of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, and if one wants to imagine the kind of landscape that would have been in Chekhov's mind as the backdrop for a play like The Seagull it would be hard to beat this.
	max.mmlc.northwestern.edu /~mdenner/Drama/visualarts/Realism/autumnday4.html (138 words)

	Isaak Il'ich Levitan ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		The exhibition will include about 300 canvases by 130 national artists who lived in 19th and 20th centuries.
		Among authors are A. Gerasimov, I. Grabar, K. Korovin, M. Larionov, I. Levitan, K. Makovsky, I. Mashkov, V. Serov, M. Shemyakin.
		Levitan, Isaac at LawIDEA.com - legal law directory of links
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	Daniel F. Gerhartz
		Studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and his voracious appetite for museums and the modern masters such as John Singer Sargent, Alphonse Mucha, Nicolai Fechin, Joaquin Sorolla, Carl von Marr as well as a host of other French and American impressionists have inspired him.
		Dan has a particular interest and appreciation for modern Russian art and the sumptuous canvases of the painters Nicolai Fechin, Isaac Levitan and Ilya Repin.
		As Dan says, their paintings are "completely loose yet deliberate and faithful, not at all flashy."
	www.danielgerhartz.com /biography.htm (431 words)

	Levitan Isaac - Art prints on canvas - agniart.ru
		Levitan Isaac - Art prints on canvas - agniart.ru
		The Levitan's name became symbolical long ago, and his work became the most completed and perfect soul of the Russian lyrical landscape idea.
		Isaac Levitan, fine art prints and fine art posters
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	Levitan Isaac - Fine art posters - agniart.ru
		Levitan Isaac - Fine art posters - agniart.ru
		Isaac Levitan is the greatest Russian landscape-painter and poet of the end of the 19th century; he is a craftsman of a soulful “landscape-mood”.
		Exclusive fine art prints of Isaac Levitan pictures
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	Isaac Levitan Reproduction Master Works Art Gallery
		Click on each title to browse Isaac Levitan Oil Painting.
		We offer custom hand painted oil on canvas reproductions services.
		Isaac Levitan,(1861-1900), painter.He was born in Kybartai, Lithuania, and while he was still a boy his family moved to Moscow where he studied at the Art School.
	www.masterworksartgallery.com /Isaac-Levitan (139 words)

	russian art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Great Russian Painters of XIX Century - Isaak Levitan- by Max I. Fomitchev
		Russian Art Gallery :Isaak Levitan - many images
		Isaak Levitan: The Vladimirka Road (1892) - by Alexander Boguslawski
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