Aleksey Savrasov

Aleksey Savrasov

Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style.

Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. He began to draw early and in 1838 he enrolled as a student of professor Rabus at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (graduated in 1850), and immediately began to specialize in landscape painting.

In 1852, he traveled to Ukraine. Then, in 1854 by the invitation of the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna, President of the Imperial Academy of Arts, he moved to the neighborhood of St. Petersburg. In 1857, Savrasov became a teacher at the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. His best disciples, Isaac Levitan and Konstantin Korovin, remembered their teacher with admiration and gratitude.

In 1857, he married Sophia Karlovna Hertz, sister of art historian K. Hertz. In their home they entertained artistic people and collectors including Pavel Tretyakov. Savrasov became especially close with Vasily Perov. Perov helped him paint the figures of the boat trackers in Savrasov's Volga near Yuryevets, Savrasov painted landscapes for Perov's Bird catcher and Hunters on Bivouac.

In the 1860s, he traveled to England to see the International Exhibition, and to Switzerland. In one of his letters he wrote that no academies in the world could so advance an artist as the present world exhibition. The painters who influenced him most were British painter John Constable and Swiss painter Alexandre Calame.

The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) is considered by many critics to be the high point in Savrasov’s artistic career. Using a common, even trivial, episode of birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape, Savrasov emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter to spring. It was a new type of lyrical landscape painting, called later by critics the mood landscape. The painting brought him fame.

In 1870, he became a member of the Peredvizhniki group, breaking with government-sponsored academic art. In 1871, after the death of his daughter, there was a crisis in his art. The misfortunes in his personal life and, possibly, dissatisfaction with his artistic career were the reasons of his tragedy—he became an alcoholic. All attempts of his relatives and friends to help him were in vain.

The last years of his life Savrasov led the life of a pauper, wandering from shelter to shelter. Only the doorkeeper of the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture and Pavel Tretyakov, founder of the Tretyakov Gallery, were present at his funeral in 1897.

5
     

We can paint

ANY IMAGE

in ANY SIZE

Request a quote
monastery gates 1875

monastery gates 1875

$112.46$66.3541% off
waterfall 1868

waterfall 1868

$85.68$50.5541% off
at the cemetery 1884

at the cemetery 1884

$92.57$54.6141% off
volga near gorodets 1870
spring 1874

spring 1874

$113.99$67.2541% off
riverbank be

riverbank be

$108.63$64.0941% off
river landscape

river landscape

$115.52$68.1541% off
early spring 3

early spring 3

$102.51$60.4841% off
forest 1877

forest 1877

$100.98$59.5841% off
winter landscape rime

winter landscape rime

$108.63$64.0941% off
winter

winter

$107.10$63.1941% off
do icons

do icons

$105.57$62.2941% off
oak

oak

$90.27$53.2641% off
early spring 4

early spring 4

$102.51$60.4841% off
compressed field 1874

compressed field 1874

$95.63$56.4241% off
evening landscape 1861
winter landscape

winter landscape

$105.57$62.2941% off
country scene

country scene

$95.63$56.4241% off
pond at dusk 1879

pond at dusk 1879

$105.57$62.2941% off
swiss form 1862

swiss form 1862

$92.57$54.6141% off
a spring day 1873

a spring day 1873

$90.27$53.2641% off
in the park 1858

in the park 1858

$98.69$58.2241% off
savvinskaya sloboda

savvinskaya sloboda

$98.69$58.2241% off
spring thaw

spring thaw

$105.57$62.2941% off
autumn sokolniki

autumn sokolniki

$77.27$45.5941% off
the volga river vistas
bonfire of the river

bonfire of the river

$120.87$71.3141% off
spring day

spring day

$90.27$53.2641% off
sea of mud 1894

sea of mud 1894

$110.16$64.9941% off
summer landscape 1860

summer landscape 1860

$98.69$58.2241% off
grave 1884

grave 1884

$104.04$61.3841% off
moonlit night 1853

moonlit night 1853

$95.63$56.4241% off
rooks have returned 1871
evening 1

evening 1

$112.46$66.3541% off
autumn night 1872

autumn night 1872

$85.68$50.5541% off
courtyard winter

courtyard winter

$105.57$62.2941% off
landscape with pine 1854
We can paint any size, we can paint any image. Can't find what you are looking for? Contact Us