Christ in the Wilderness, Ivan Kramskoi ポスター

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (June 8 1837– April 6 1887) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880. Kramskoi came from an impoverished petit-bourgeois family. From 1857 to 1863 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts; he reacted against academic art and was an initiator of the "revolt of fourteen" which ended with the expulsion from the Academy of a group of its graduates, who organized the Artel of Artists. Quote:Wikipedia