Vasiliev Fedor Alexandrovich (1850-1873) (76 works)

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Vasiliev Fedor Aleksandrovich (1850-1873) - Russian landscape painter.

“Young, strong, who lived only five years as an artist, who reached enormous heights... he discovered the living sky, he discovered the wet, bright, moving sky and those delights of the landscape that he expressed in a hundred of his paintings.”

Fyodor Vasiliev was born on February 10 (22), 1850 in the city of Gatchina (now Leningrad region) in the family of a minor postal official from St. Petersburg. At the age of twelve he was sent to serve at the main post office, where he received a salary of 3 rubles per month. From early childhood he showed ability and interest in drawing. He left the service and went to study at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts in St. Petersburg, then for a short time (1866-1867) he used the advice of I. I. Shishkin.

In 1870, Vasiliev, together with the artists I. Repin and Makarov, took a trip along the Volga, painted the paintings “Thaw”, “View on the Volga” and “Winter Landscape”, which brought him fame. In the winter of 1870, Vasiliev caught a severe cold and was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

At the suggestion of Count Stroganov, the artist spent the summer of 1871 on his estates in the Kharkov and Voronezh provinces, but was never cured. The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts gave him funds to travel to Crimea. Even before leaving, Vasiliev was enrolled as a volunteer student at the Academy of Arts and received the title of artist of the first degree with the condition of passing an exam from a scientific course. Vasiliev spent two years in Crimea, where, in addition to many drawings, he painted two paintings - “Swamp” and “Crimean View”, for which he was awarded a prize from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts in 1872. There, based on old sketches and memories, he painted the canvas “Wet Meadow” (1872, Tretyakov Gallery).

The artist died on September 24 (October 6), 1873 in Yalta. The grave is located there at the Polikurovsky cemetery