Ivan Sjisjkin

(1831–1898) rysk målare

Ivan Sjisjkin (1831–1898) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Ivan Sjisjkin belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Ivan Sjisjkin was born in Yelabuga and died in Saint Petersburg. Ivan Sjisjkin trained at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Imperial Academy of Arts, and First Kazan Male Gymnasium. The teachers included Sokrat Vorobyov and Rudolf Koller. Ivan Sjisjkin worked in Saint Petersburg. Wikidata associates Ivan Sjisjkin with realism. Ivan Sjisjkin became a member of Peredvizhniki. The awards include Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class, Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts, petite médaille d'argent de l'académie impériale des beaux-arts, and Large silver medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts. The students included Andrey Shilder and Olga Lagoda–Shishkina.

One of the best-known works is ‘Morning in a Pine Forest’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 220 works by Ivan Sjisjkin with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1900. Works by Ivan Sjisjkin are held by several collections, among them Ryska museet, Tretjakovgalleriet, Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts, and Perm Art Museum.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Karl Theodor Fedorovich Huhn, José María Casado del Alisal, Édouard Brandon, Euphrosine Beernaert, and John Brett.