Alexei Kondratjewitsch Sawrassow

Alexei Kondratjewitsch Sawrassow (Russian АлексейКондратьевичСаврасов; * 12. May/ 24. May 1830 in Moscow; † 26. September/ 8. October 1897 ebd.) was a Russian landscape painter.

began to draw and paint Sawrassow born as a son of a buyer promptly. 1844 it was already accepted sculpture and architecture , which it left 1850 as a graduate as a pupil of professor Rabus at the Muscovites university for painting. Thereupon it, its special interest, the landscape painting began, to follow.

1852 it traveled to the Ukraine. Two years later it went on invitation of the large princess Maria Nikolajewna, the president of the Russian academy of arts, after sank itself Petersburg. In the year 1857 Sawrassow transferred the post of a teacher at the Muscovites school for painting, Bildhauerein and architecture. Its most well-known pupil was Isaak Lewitan as well as Konstantin Alexejewitsch Korowin there.

After its marriage with Sophia Carlovna Hertz, the sister of the art historian K. Hertz, operated many artists and collecting tanks in its house, under it Pawel Michailowitsch Tretjakow. A particularly close friendship connected it in this time with Wassili Grigorjewitsch Perow. To the 1860er years traveled it to England, in order to visit the world exhibition; afterwards it traveled to Switzerland.

1870 it became member of the movement of the Peredwischniki and broke thereby with training methodology supported by the government. Besides its works on world exhibitions to see - in Vienna 1873 , Paris 1878 as well as on the allRussian exhibition were 1882 in Moscow.

In the future it had to suffer personal and vocational setbacks, so that it became the alcoholic. All auxiliary attempts on the part of related and friends were in vain. He spent the last years of its life in poverty and as a homeless person. He deceased 1897 in Moscow.

works (selection)

• view of the Krimski bridge of the Kremlin in rauem weather (ВиднаКремльсКрымскогмоставненастнуюпогоду) (1851)
• view of the environment of Oranienbaum (ВидвокрестностиОраниенбаума) (1854)
• landscape with river and angler (Пейзажсрекойирыбаком) (1859)
• rural view (1867)
• winter eight (Зимняяночь) (1869)
• winter (Зима) (1870)
• cave abbey with Nischni Nowgorod (ПещерскиймонастырьуНижнегоНовгорода) (1871)
• rainbow (Радуга) (1873)
• abbey gate (Монастырскиеворота) (1875)
• early spring - thaw (Ранняявесна.Оттепель) (1880)
• spring - kitchen gardens (Весна.Огороды) (1893)
• mud weather (Распутица) (1894)

some work

view of the Krimski bridge on the Kremlin in rauem weather. 1851	view of the environment of Oranienbaum. 1854	landscape with river and angler. 1859	rural view. 1867
winter eight. 1869	winters. 1870	the seed crows returns. 1871	cave abbey with Nischni Nowgorod. 1871
the Sucharew tower. 1872	rainbow. 1873	rafts. 1873	abbey gate. 1875
early spring - thaw. Thaw. 1880s	spring - kitchen gardens. 1893	mud weather. 1894

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