The cinematic scale in the paintings of Jewish-Lithuanian artist Isaac Levitan (1860–1900)—a few more here instagram.com/p/CbXUOiQKkgl/
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Levitan was born in the shtetl of Kibarty, in present-day Lithuania (former part of the Russian Empire), into a poor but educated Jewish family. His grandfather was a rabbi and his father a teacher of French and German in Kaunas
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Levitan became a close friend of Anton Chekhov, with whom he had a quarrel over 'The Grasshopper'—a story by Chekhov, which Levitan believed was based on his affaire with Sofia Kuvshinnikova
'By the Whirpool' (1892) by Isaac Levitan
Riverscapes by Isaac Levitan
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