Monday, December 5, 2011

Antropov Kuindzhi - Ladoga Lake [1870]


Antropov Kuindzhi (Mariupol, January 15, 1841 - Saint Petersburg, July 11, 1910) was a Russian landscape painter. He was born the son of a poor Greek shoemaker . He lost his parents early in life and lived in great poverty, tending geese and serving the contractor for the building of a church.

[Oil on canvas, 795 x 625 cm]

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