Iwan Nikolajewitsch Kramskoj 003 - The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi (1837–1887), painter, draughtsman, engraver, theoretician of realist art and art critic. He worked as a retoucher for an itinerant photographer (1853–1857) and studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1857–1863). He was the initiator of the “Revolt of Fourteen” (1863) and one of the organisers and head of the St Petersburg Artel of Artists (1863–1870). He was also a founding member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1870–1887), a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists (from 1861) and of the Moscow Society of Amateur Artists (from 1871) and a founding member of the Society of Russian Aquafortists (1871–1874). He was an Academician from 1869, took part in exhibitions from 1860 and taught at the drawing school at the Society for the Encouragement of Artists (1863–1869 with breaks).