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Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian language: Исаак Ильич Левитан, August 30, 1860 - July 22 (August 4 new style), 1900) was a classical Russian landscape art painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape.
Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kibarti, Kovno region, Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father, a son of a rabbi, completed a Yeshiva and in addition was self-educated. He taught German and French in Kovno and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a French building company. In the beginning of 1870 the Levitan family moved to Moscow.
In September 1873, Isaac Levitan entered the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture where his older brother Avel already studied for two years. After a year in the copying class Isaac transferred into a naturalistic class, and soon into a landscape class. Levitan's teachers were the famous Savrasov, V.G. Perov and V.D. Polenov. For his successes, Levitan was awarded with a box of paints and two dozen brushes.
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