Artist Ivan Aivazovsky
Artist painter Ivan Aivazovsky was born in 1817, to the family of an Armenian merchant. In 1837, Ivan Konstantinovich finishes Petersburg Academy of Arts, which is sent on a mission Aivazovsky. First, in the Crimea, then to Italy, France and Britain. After Aivazovsky returned to St Petersburg, before it opens the possibility of a brilliant career, he was enrolled in the Naval Staff. In 1844, the Academy of Fine Arts gives it the title of academician, in 1847 he became a professor. But the artist refuses to shine and bustle of city life and settled in the Crimea, the city where he was born - Theodosia. In this city, the artist spent most of his life, wrote the best of his 6000 paintings. In the history of Russian art as Aivazovsky became the largest marine painter, colorful and glorified the beauty of the immense excitement of marine spaces. "The Ninth Wave" - in 1850, the most famous artist. Many of his paintings Ivan Konstantinovich a dedicated deeds of Russian sailors, such as: "Chesmensky fight," "Navariansky fight," both pictures were painted in 1848. Home and studio of the artist bequeathed to them in Feodosia, turned into a museum - art gallery named after Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. Sdes collected many works by the painter and his pupils and other artists who have devoted their creativity Sea and Crimea.
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