Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. Shishkin studied at the Moscow School of Painting; Sculpture and Architecture for four years. After that; he attended the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860 and graduated with the highest honors and a gold medal. He received the imperial scholarship for his further studies in Europe. Five years later Shishkin became a member of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and was professor of painting from 1873 to 1898. For some time; Shishkin lived and worked in Switzerland and Germany on scholarship from the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. On his return to Saint Petersburg; he became a member of the Circle of the Itinerants and of the Society of Russian Watercolorists. He became famous for his forest landscapes and was also an outstanding draftsman and a printmaker.
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