List of Russian People - Art - Visual Arts - Painters

Painters

• Ivan Aivazovsky, author of The Ninth Wave and over 6000 paintings, mostly seascapes
• Fedor Alekseev, prominent landscapist, "the Russian Canaletto"
• Ivan Argunov, major 18th century portraitist
• Léon Bakst, stage and costume designer for the Ballets Russes, author of the Terror Antiquus
• Alexandre Benois, artist and art critic, influential stage designer, author of the celebrated illustrations to Pushkin's Bronze Horseman
• Ivan Bilibin, painter and stage designer, famous for illustrations of Slavic mythology and sets for fairytale-based Russian operas
• Victor Borisov-Musatov, post-impressionist painter, creator of Russian Symbolism
• Vladimir Borovikovsky, famous portraitist at the turn of the 19th century
• Karl Briullov, neoclassical painter, author of The Last Day of Pompeii
• Marc Chagall, polymath-artist, pioneer of modernism and figurative art, author of famous stained glasses
• Pavel Chistyakov, history and portrait painter, tutor of many celebrated artists
• Alexander Deyneka, master of socialist realism, author of the mosaics at Mayakovskaya (Moscow Metro)
• Dionisy, medieval icon painter, author of frescoes in the Ferapontov Monastery
• Vladimir Favorsky, graphic artist, famous for woodcut illustrations of classic books
• Pavel Fedotov, realist painter, "the Russian Hogarth"
• Nikolai Ge, realist painter, famous for works on historical and religious motifs
• Feofan Grek, medieval fresco and icon-painter in Byzantine Empire and Russia
• Alexander Ivanov, neoclassical painter, author of The Appearance of Christ before the People
• Sergey Ivanov, author of famous illustrations of Russian history
• Wassily Kandinsky, inventor of pure abstract art, founder of Der Blaue Reiter
• Orest Kiprensky, romantic painter and portraitist
• Konstantin Korovin, leading Russian impressionist painter
• Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic, author of the Christ in the Desert and the Unknown Woman
• Boris Kustodiev, author of famous portraits, holiday scenes and "Kustodiev's women" (The Merchant's Wife, Bathing, The Russian Venus)
• Mikhail Larionov, avant-garde painter, inventor of rayonism
• Alexey Leonov, cosmonaut and painter, made some of his works in outer space
• Isaac Levitan, landscapist, author of the Over Eternal Peace
• Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky, Peredvizhniki artist and court photographer to the Romanov dynasty
• El Lissitzky, avante garde painter, typographer, author of Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
• Konstantin Makovsky, famous for idealized history paintings
• Kazimir Malevich, inventor of suprematism, author of the Black Square
• Sergey Malyutin, painter and folk artist, designed the first matryoshka doll
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, futurist poet and propaganda artist, author of the Rosta Windows agitprop
• Mikhail Nesterov, religious symbolist painter, portraitist, author of The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew
• Ivan Nikitin, famous Petrine era portraitist
• Vasily Perov, realist painter, author of the Troika and The Hunters at Rest
• Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, symbolist painter, author of the Bathing of a Red Horse
• Vasily Polenov, landscape painter, author of A courtyard in Moscow and Grandma's garden
• Ilya Repin, archetypical Russian painter, famous for his portraits and history scenes, author of the Barge Haulers on the Volga and the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
• Alexander Rodchenko, avante garde artist, graphic designer and constructivist painter
• Nicholas Roerich, artist, scientist, traveler, public figure, initiator of the international Roerich’s Pact, author of over 7000 paintings
• Andrei Rublev, most famous Russian icon-painter, author of the Trinity
• Andrei Ryabushkin, history painter, works devoted mostly to the 17th century Russia
• Alexei Savrasov, landscape painter, creator of the lyrical landscape style
• Zinaida Serebriakova, the most prolific paintress of Russia, famous for female portraits and nudes
• Valentin Serov, impressionist painter, portraitist, author of The Girl with Peaches and The Kidnapping of Europe
• Taras Shevchenko, romantic poet and painter
• Ivan Shishkin, author of the most celebrated Russian landscapes: the Morning in a Pine Forest, Rye Fields, the Rain in an Oak Forest
• Konstantin Somov, prominent Russian literature illustrator
• Vasily Surikov, author the famous Russian history paintings: The Morning of Streltsy's Execution, Boyarynya Morozova, The March of Suvorov through the Alps
• Vasily Tropinin, romantic and realist portraitist
• Simon Ushakov, prolific late 17th century icon painter, author of the Saviour Not Made by Hands
• Feodor Vasilyev, lyrical landscape painter
• Apollinary Vasnetsov, Russian history illustrator, many works devoted to Moscow
• Viktor Vasnetsov, famous for Russian history and Slavic mythology images, inventor of budenovka, author of the Flying Carpet, Tsar Ivan The Terrible, the Bogatyrs
• Alexey Venetsianov, prominent genre painter, founder of the "Venetsianov school"
• Vasily Vereshchagin, battle painter, author of The Apotheosis of War and the Blowing from Guns in British India
• Mikhail Vrubel, leader of the Russian Symbolism, author of The Demon Sitting and The Swan Princess
• Nikolai Yaroshenko, realist genre painter and portraitist
• Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets, portrait painter of Chechen origin
• Karp Zolotaryov, late 17th century icon painter, notable for realistic style