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Russian 1844-1911,was a Russian painter, a prominent member of the Peredvizhniki group. Maximov was born to a peasant family in the village of Lopino near Novaya Ladoga. He became an orphan early and worked for an Iconpainting shop, where he first learned to paint. In 1863 he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts and in 1864 he became a member of an Artel of Artists created by P.N. Krestonovtsev by the example of Ivan Kramskoi. The artel existed only one year and was then disbanded. Maximov painted the Sick Child (1864) at that time, when received a Gold Medal of the Academia. He completed all the courses of the Academy in three years. In 1865 he (like the group of fourteen led by Ivan Kramskoi had done earlier) refused to take part in the competitions for the Major Gold Medal by Academia. He argued that he did not need to study abroad (that was a part of the prize) but rather would study the Russian village. Indeed, after graduation from the Academia he moved to the village of Shubino, in the gubernia of Tver, where he painted the peasant life, earning money as a painting teacher of the Princes Golenischev Kutuzov (descendants of Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov). His painting Grandmother tales (1867) was shown at a Peredvizhniki exhibition, where it won a prize and was bought by Pavel Tretyakov. In 1872 he was admitted to the Peredvizhniki group, and soon became one of its most prominent and rigorous members. Ilya Yefimovich Repin described Maximov as the most uncrushable stone in the foundation of peredvizhnechestvo. Maximov painted many paintings of the peasant life. In the last twenty years of his life, realism paintings fell out of fashion. Maximov still painted almost exclusively scenes of the peasant lives that had almost no buyers. The artist lived a life full of poverty and illnesses. He died in Saint Petersburg.

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Vassily Maximov The Sick Husband oil painting artist


Vassily Maximov The Sick Husband oil painting artist

The Sick Husband
Painting ID::  49138
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mk193 1881 Oil on canvas 70.8x88.6cm

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Vassily Maximov Arrival of a Sorcere at a Peasant Wedding oil painting artist


Vassily Maximov Arrival of a Sorcere at a Peasant Wedding oil painting artist

Arrival of a Sorcere at a Peasant Wedding
Painting ID::  49143
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mk193 1875 Oil on cnavas 116x188cm

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Vassily Maximov Kranker Mann oil painting artist


Vassily Maximov Kranker Mann oil painting artist

Kranker Mann
Painting ID::  88691
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1881(1881) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 70,8 x 88,6 cm cjr

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Vassily Maximov Ankunfts des Zauberers auf der Dorfhochzeit oil painting artist


Vassily Maximov Ankunfts des Zauberers auf der Dorfhochzeit oil painting artist

Ankunfts des Zauberers auf der Dorfhochzeit
Painting ID::  89318
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1874(1874) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 43,7 x 67,5cm cjr

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