The sun has pierced the clouds and illuminated the Kremlin in the background of the painting. The storm clouds rush from the right to the left of the painting pushed relentlessly by the strong winds which have caused the branches of the trees to bend towards the river. One of the first paintings Savrasov completed after leaving the art school was entitled View of the Kremlin from Krymski Bridge during Inclement Weather. In 1850 Savrasov graduated from the Moscow School of Painting receiving the official title of “unclassed artist”. View of the Kremlin from the Krymsky Bridge in Inclement Weather by Alexei Savrasov (1851) During the last years at the painting school, Savrasov, received a bursary from a well-known Moscow art patron and member of the Moscow Art Society, Likhachev, which enabled him to go on a painting and sketching trip to Odessa, where he captured the beauty of the local landscape. Soon he was widely acknowledged by the tutors as the best student of landscape painting in the School. Alexei loved the genre of landscape painting and began to specialise in it. Alexei eventually had his way and enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and in 1848 he was fortunate to join the special studio of perspective and landscape painting which was run by Karl Rabus, who was the Professor of Landscape painting. However for Alexei, his heart was set on becoming an artist. His father was adamant that his son should follow him and become a merchant and thus end all the time his son spent painting which his father regarded as just a hobby. In 1844, when Savrasov was fourteen years of age, and plans for his future career had to be discussed with the family. He persuaded his father to let him study art and at the young of eight he attended the painting school. As a young boy he developed the love of drawing and by the age of twelve he was experimenting with painting gouache and watercolour landscapes and during his early years he managed to exchange his paintings with vendors for chicken feed. Having a rest from writing about Levitan, I had a look at some of the works of Savrasov, who had influenced Levitan and amongst them I came across the most exquisite painting and the one Savrasov was probably most famous for but more about that later.Īlexei Savrasov was born on into the family of a Moscow merchant. Whilst I was researching his early life as a student at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture I came across the name of Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov who was one of Levitan’s tutors. My last two blogs featured the life and works of the great nineteenth century landscape painter, Isaac Levitan. Portrait of Alexei Savrasov by Vasily Perov (1878)
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