Alexei Savrasov

Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov[a]; 24 May [O.S. 12 May] 1830 – 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1897) was a Russian landscape painter. He created a style of painting, called lyrical landscape style.[1] His most famous painting is The Rooks Have Returned.

Some of his paintings

  • View of the [Kremlin] in Inclement Weather (1851)
  • View in the Neighborhood of Oranienbaum (1854)
  • Landscape with River and Angler (1859)
  • Rustic View (1867)
  • Elk Island in Sokolniki (1869)
  • Winter Night (1869)
  • Winter (1870)
  • Sundown over a marsh, 1871
  • Monastery of Caves near Nizhny Novgorod (1871)
  • Sukharev Tower (1872)
  • Rainbow (1873)
  • Spring Day, 1873
  • Rafts (1873)
  • The Volga, 1874
  • Monastery Gates (1875)
  • Autumn village, 1870s
  • Evening, 1880
  • Early Spring. Thaw. (1880s)
  • Spring. Kitchen Gardens (1893)
  • Rasputitsa (Sea of Mud, 1894)

Notes

  1. ↑ In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Kondratyevich and the family name is Savrasov.

Sources

  1. ↑ Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1976). Landscape Masterpieces from Soviet Museums: 18 October - 30 November 1975 Royal Academy of Arts, London, 18 December 1975 - 28 January 1976 Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. Royal Academy. p. 30.


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