Contemporaries
Ilya Repin
Painting · portraiture
Show on the timeline- Period of activity shown
- 1870–1917
A painter and draughtsman associated with realism and the travelling exhibitions of the Peredvizhniki. Barge Haulers on the Volga, exhibited in Vienna, established his European reputation. He painted portraits, historical subjects and scenes of contemporary life, and taught at the Academy of Arts. He lived at Penaty in Kuokkala; a changed border left him in Finland, where he continued working until 1930.
- Lifetime
- 1844–1930
- Recognition
- Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870–1873); joined the Peredvizhniki in 1878.
- Period shown
- From work on Barge Haulers (1870). The display ends at 1917; his career continued afterwards.