
Ilya RepinUkraine, 1844–1930Darf man es sehen?
Moskau, Russland
Der Eigentümer ist bekannt. Ob es heute ausgestellt ist, sagt das Museum nicht, und Raten haben wir nicht gelernt.
1898
A journey to the Holy Land; an icon for Jerusalem
In 1898 he travelled to the Holy Land and painted the icon “Carrying the Cross” for the Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Jerusalem.
1898–1899
Rektor Vysshego khudozhestvennogo uchilishcha
Преподавал в училище при Академии с 1893 по 1907 год, в 1898–1899 — ректор.
1899
Buys land at Kuokkala and builds “Penaty”
In 1899 Repin bought land near the village of Kuokkala, forty kilometres north of St Petersburg, and with Natalia Nordman built the Penaty estate, which became his home for thirty years. At first it was only a summer house; after he left the Academy in 1907 it became his permanent home and studio.
January 1899
Joins the editorial board of “World of Art” — and cools
In early January 1899 he agreed to join the journal’s editorial board, won over by Diaghilev’s “fighting spirit”. By mid-January his mood had changed: the ideological platform of “World of Art” meant opposition to the Academy of Arts and to a dying Wandererism.
18. Januar 1899
Pervaya mezhdunarodnaya vystavka «Mira iskusstva»
Среди 350 работ художников Франции, Англии, Германии, Финляндии и России экспонировались и произведения Репина; он вошёл в редколлегию журнала Дягилева.
April 1899
«Po adresu „Mira iskusstva“» — razryv s Dyagilevym
Письмо в 15-м номере «Нивы»: Репин выступил в защиту передвижников и академистов и прекратил сотрудничество с журналом.