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Biography of Ilya Repin

Russian Naturalist painter
born 1844 - died 1930
Full name: Ilya Yefimovich Repin in English, Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин in Russian, Ілля Юхимович Рєпін in Ukrainian.
Also known as: Il'ja Efimovic Repin, Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Ilia Repin

Teacher of: Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955) from 1906 to 1908

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Repin is the best known Russian painter, was born in 1844 at Tschuguev in the department of Charkov, the son of parents in straitened circumstances. The Russian artist learned the rudiments of art under a painter of saints named [I. M.] Bunakov, for three years gaining his living at this humble craft.

In 1863 Ilya Repin obtained a studentship at the Academy of Fine Art of St Petersburg, where the Russia artist remained for six years, winning the gold medal and a travelling scholarship which enabled him to visit France and Italy. Repin returned to Russia after a short absence, and devoted himself exclusively to subjects having strong national characteristics. In 1894 the painter became professor of historical painting at the St Petersburg Academy. Repin paintings are powerfully drawn, with not a little imagination and with strong dramatic force and characterization. A brilliant colourist, and a portrait painting oil on canvas of the first rank, Repin Russian artist also became known as a sculptor and etcher of ability. Chief Repin art is Procession in the Government of Kiev, Home-coming, The Arrest, Ivan the Terrible's murder of his Son, and, best known of all, The Reply of the Cossacks to Sultan Mahmoud IV.

The portraits of the Baroness Varvara Ikskul von Hildenbandt, of Anton Rubinstein and of Count Leo Tolstoy are among his best achievements in this class. The Tretyakov gallery at Moscow contains a very large collection of Repin paintings.

See "Professor Repin," by Prince Bojidar Karageorgevich, in the Magazine of Art, xxiii. p.783 (1899); "Russian Art", a paper by E. Brayley Hodgetts in the Proceedings of the Anglo-Russian Literary Society (5th of May 1896); "Ilja Jefimovich Repin," by Julius Norden, in Velhagen and Klasings Monatshefte, xx. p. I (1905); also R. Muther, History of Modern Painting (ed. 1907), iv. 272. (E. F. S.0).

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire is the most famous artwork by Repin, it occupied him for more than 10 years. He conceived this painting as a study in laughter.

An important part of Repin work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed Repin paintings were published in the Soviet Union, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later. He was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists in the USSR.