Isaac Levitan1860–1900Березки. Этюд
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Березки. Этюд” now? Collection: Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan. Unknown.
Kazan, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Museum text in Russian
Осенний пейзаж. На зеленом пригорке - березы с облетевшей листвой. Слева от них, на спуске; два деревянных амбара. Небо голубое.
Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts
Details
- Accession number
- Ж-1173
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts — © Государственный музей изобразительных искусств Республики Татарстан · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Isaac Levitan
The whole lifeJanuary 1895
Reconciliation with Chekhov at Melikhovo
Thanks to Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, Levitan makes peace with Chekhov: on her way to Melikhovo she called at his Moscow studio to see the Udomlya studies and persuaded him to go with her; the friends met, embraced, and the friendship resumed.
21 June 1895
A suicide attempt
Overcome by severe melancholy, on 21 June 1895 Levitan makes an attempt on his life which, according to the doctor I. I. Troyanovsky, who found no trace of a wound, was rather a theatrical gesture — a “tragic comedy”.
after 21 June 1895
Chekhov comes to Gorka and stays five days
At Levitan's own request, and then Anna Turchaninova's, Chekhov comes to Gorka, satisfies himself that his friend's life is in no danger, stays five days and returns to Moscow shaken. After the visit he will write the story “The House with a Mezzanine” and the play “The Seagull”, which offend Levitan.
1896
Typhus again, and a heart aneurysm
After a second bout of typhus the symptoms of an aneurysm of the heart worsen; the illness becomes grave and incurable.
1896
An exhibition in Odessa with Simov and Popov
A joint exhibition of paintings and watercolours by Isaac Levitan, Viktor Simov and Alexander Popov is held in Odessa.
1898
The title of academician and teaching at his old school
He is awarded the title of academician of landscape painting and begins teaching at the very school where he studied; he dreams of creating a “House of Landscapes” — a large studio where all Russian landscape painters could work.
