Ivan Kramskoj

(1837–1887) rysk konstnär

Ivan Kramskoj (1837–1887) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Ivan Kramskoj belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.

Ivan Kramskoj was born in Ostrogozhsk and died in Saint Petersburg. Ivan Kramskoj trained at Imperial Academy of Arts. The teachers included Alexey Tarasovich Markov and Mikhail Borisovich Tulinov. Ivan Kramskoj worked in Saint Petersburg. Wikidata associates Ivan Kramskoj with realism.

The best-known works include ‘Portrait of an Unknown Woman’ and ‘Self-portrait’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait and genre painting. The catalogue has 88 works by Ivan Kramskoj with free images. The dated works span the years 1860–1900. Works by Ivan Kramskoj are held by several collections, among them Tretjakovgalleriet, Ryska museet, Voronezh Regional Art Museum, and Tretyakov Gallery.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Louis Artan de Saint Martin, Vincent Lerche, Petr Nikolaevich Gruzinsky, Nikolai Dmitrievich Dmitriev-Orenburgsky, and Alfred Thompson Bricher.

• Impressionism
• Portrait of an Unknown Woman
• Christ in the Wilderness
• The Mermaids
• Beekeeper
• Inconsolable Grief
• Forester