Lev Lvovich Kamenev (russian: Лев Льво́вич Ка́менев; 1834, according to other information in 1833, Rylsk,

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– Savvinskaya sloboda,

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), was a

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Biography

Kamenev was born in 1834. Soon afterwards, his father, a small trader, moved with the family in

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, where Lev studied at the local grammar school, but not finished it because of the father was in need of assistant, and took him to own shop. A passion for painting with Lev Kamenev saw grandfather of

Konstantin Korovin Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (russian: Константи́н Алексе́евич Коро́вин, first name often spelled Constantin; 11 September 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Biography Youth and education Konstan ...

, who arranged him to own office and gave him five thousand rubles for admission to the

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in St. Petersburg. In 1854, aged twenty-one year, he went to Moscow and entered the

Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (russian: Московское училище живописи, ваяния и зодчества, МУЖВЗ) also known by the acronym MUZHZV, was one of the largest educational insti ...

with the coming celebrities as

Ivan Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. Biography Shishkin was born to a Russian me ...

and

Vasily Perov Vasily Grigorevich Perov (russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Перо́в; 2 January 1834 (21 December 1833 Old Style, O.S.) – 10 June (29 May O.S.) 1882) was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realism (arts), R ...

, where he studied under the mentoring

Karl Rabus Karl Rabus (Russian: Карл Иванович Рабус (11 May 1800, St. Petersburg - 14 January 1857, Moscow) was a Russian architectural painter and art teacher. Biography His father died when Karl was seven. At the age of only ten, he was s ...

, and after his death in 1857, under the mentoring

Alexei Savrasov Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (russian: Алексе́й Кондра́тьевич Савра́сов) (May 24, 1830 – September 26, 1897) was a Russian landscape painting, landscape painter and creator of the ''lyrical landscape'' style ...

. In 1858 Kamenev was bestowed the title of the professional painter of the 3d degree and became a member of the Moscow Society of Amateurs of Arts, at the expense of it he departed for a two-year trip abroad for learning and mastery of Western European artists. Traveling to Germany and Switzerland, he carried out together with Ivan Shishkin. The peak of Kamenev's career was in the 1860-70s, when his painting ''Winter Road'' became part of the Tretyakov collection. In 1869 for the painting ''Winter View from the Outskirts of Moscow'' and ''View from the Outskirts of Porechye'' he received the title of academician of the Academy of Arts landscape painting and became a member and one of the founders of The Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (

Peredvizhniki Peredvizhniki ( rus, Передви́жники, , pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restr ...

). Between the 1871-1884 Kamenev took part at the exhibitions of the Association. In 1886 Kamenev died in poverty and solitude.

Works

File:Lev Kamenev - Old Oak.jpg, ''Old Oak'', 1859. File:Lev Kamenev - Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery near Zvenigorod.jpg, ''Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery near Zvenigorod'', 1860s. File:Lev Kamenev - By the Dam.jpg, ''By the Dam'', 1864. File:Lev Kamenev - Winter Road.jpg, ''Winter Road'', 1866. File:Lev Kamenev - Moonlit Night on the River.jpg, ''Moonlit Night on the River'', 1870s. File:Fog. Red Pond in Moscow in Autumn.jpg, ''Fog. Red Pond in Moscow in Autumn'', 1871. File:Lev Kamenev - Forest.jpg, ''Forest'', 1874. File:View on the Kazanka River.jpg, ''View on the Kazanka River'', 1875.

References

1830s births 1886 deaths People from Rylsky District People from Rylsky Uyezd 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni {{Russia-painter-stub