Ilya Yukhimovych Repin (1844-1930) was a Ukrainian artist, sculptor, essayist, graphic artist, teacher. Born in Chuguiv, Kharkiv Region. At the age of eleven, he went to study at the school of topographers (1855). He got a job in the icon painting workshop of the artist I.M. Bunakov (1857) and quickly became famous. The young master began to be invited by contractors who needed painters and gilders to come to the city. At the age of sixteen, he got his first job in a nomadic icon-painting artillery. In the fall of 1863, he went to St. Petersburg. For the competitive painting "Christ Raises the Daughter of Jairus", he received the right to a six-year stay abroad as an academic pensioner, funded by the state, where he stayed in 1873–1876. He exhibited some of his works in the Paris Salon, despite the ban of the St. Petersburg Academy. The 1870s and 1880s were full of trips to Russia and Ukraine. Academician, professor of the St. Petersburg Academy (from 1893 to 1907); a member of the Society of Peredvizhniki (since 1878) and the art group "World of Art" (since 1890). He created numerous portraits of figures of Ukrainian and Russian culture: S. Lyubitska, M. Murashko, V. Tarnovsky, T. Shevchenko, D. Bagaliya and others. He left a rich and diverse artistic heritage, which is kept in the best museums of Ukraine, Russia, Europe and in private collections. Accepted an offer to work at the Imperial Academy for the sake of reforming the educational institution. The artist's workshop was the most popular among students at that time. Among Repin's students: V. Syerov, O. Murashko, M. Bogdanov-Bielskyi, I. Grabar, B. Kustodiev, I. Brodskyi and others. After Finland gained independence from Russia, he stayed to live in Finland. He died in his villa "Penati" in the Finnish village of Kuokkala. According to the will, the body was supposed to be buried in his native Chuguyev, but because of the Bolshevik government, the artist's widow decided to bury her husband in a park near the house. A large number of institutions and streets in Ukraine and the USSR are named after Repin.
Ilya Yukhimovych Repin (1844-1930) was a Ukrainian artist, sculptor, essayist, graphic artist, teacher. Born in Chuguiv, Kharkiv Region. At the age of eleven, he went to study at the school of topographers (1855). He got a job in the icon painting workshop of the artist I.M. Bunakov (1857) and quickly became famous. The young master began to be invited by contractors who needed painters and gilders to come to the city. At the age of sixteen, he got his first job in a nomadic icon-painting artillery. In the fall of 1863, he went to St. Petersburg. For the competitive painting "Christ Raises the Daughter of Jairus", he received the right to a six-year stay abroad as an academic pensioner, funded by the state, where he stayed in 1873–1876. He exhibited some of his works in the Paris Salon, despite the ban of the St. Petersburg Academy. The 1870s and 1880s were full of trips to Russia and Ukraine. Academician, professor of the St. Petersburg Academy (from 1893 to 1907); a member of the Society of Peredvizhniki (since 1878) and the art group "World of Art" (since 1890). He created numerous portraits of figures of Ukrainian and Russian culture: S. Lyubitska, M. Murashko, V. Tarnovsky, T. Shevchenko, D. Bagaliya and others. He left a rich and diverse artistic heritage, which is kept in the best museums of Ukraine, Russia, Europe and in private collections. Accepted an offer to work at the Imperial Academy for the sake of reforming the educational institution. The artist's workshop was the most popular among students at that time. Among Repin's students: V. Syerov, O. Murashko, M. Bogdanov-Bielskyi, I. Grabar, B. Kustodiev, I. Brodskyi and others. After Finland gained independence from Russia, he stayed to live in Finland. He died in his villa "Penati" in the Finnish village of Kuokkala. According to the will, the body was supposed to be buried in his native Chuguyev, but because of the Bolshevik government, the artist's widow decided to bury her husband in a park near the house. A large number of institutions and streets in Ukraine and the USSR are named after Repin.
Ilya Yukhimovych Repin (1844-1930) was a Ukrainian artist, sculptor, essayist, graphic artist, teacher. Born in Chuguiv, Kharkiv Region. At the age of eleven, he went to study at the school of topographers (1855). He got a job in the icon painting workshop of the artist I.M. Bunakov (1857) and quickly became famous. The young master began to be invited by contractors who needed painters and gilders to come to the city. At the age of sixteen, he got his first job in a nomadic icon-painting artillery. In the fall of 1863, he went to St. Petersburg. For the competitive painting "Christ Raises the Daughter of Jairus", he received the right to a six-year stay abroad as an academic pensioner, funded by the state, where he stayed in 1873–1876. He exhibited some of his works in the Paris Salon, despite the ban of the St. Petersburg Academy. The 1870s and 1880s were full of trips to Russia and Ukraine. Academician, professor of the St. Petersburg Academy (from 1893 to 1907); a member of the Society of Peredvizhniki (since 1878) and the art group "World of Art" (since 1890). He created numerous portraits of figures of Ukrainian and Russian culture: S. Lyubitska, M. Murashko, V. Tarnovsky, T. Shevchenko, D. Bagaliya and others. He left a rich and diverse artistic heritage, which is kept in the best museums of Ukraine, Russia, Europe and in private collections. Accepted an offer to work at the Imperial Academy for the sake of reforming the educational institution. The artist's workshop was the most popular among students at that time. Among Repin's students: V. Syerov, O. Murashko, M. Bogdanov-Bielskyi, I. Grabar, B. Kustodiev, I. Brodskyi and others. After Finland gained independence from Russia, he stayed to live in Finland. He died in his villa "Penati" in the Finnish village of Kuokkala. According to the will, the body was supposed to be buried in his native Chuguyev, but because of the Bolshevik government, the artist's widow decided to bury her husband in a park near the house. A large number of institutions and streets in Ukraine and the USSR are named after Repin.
