Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov (1850 - 1923)
Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov
Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov (Russian: Иван Павлович Похитонов) was a Russian artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, a master of landscape, who lived and worked in Europe for much of his career.
Ivan Pokhitonov created mainly miniature landscapes, made with a small brush on planks of red or lemon wood, treated and primed with a special technology. He worked mostly in plein air. The most common motif of his miniature paintings during the years of emigration were city and seascapes of France. In his works, always built on a combination of the finest shades of color, the artist organically combined the techniques of Barbizon, of which he was a fan, and the traditions of the Russian landscape school. He also turned to the genre of still life and portraiture.
| Date and place of birt: | 27 january 1850, Новоукраинка, Russian Empire |
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| Date and place of death: | 12 december 1923, Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality: | Belgium, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, France, Russian Empire |
| Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
| Specialization: | Graphic artist, Landscape painter, Miniaturist, Painter |
| Art school / group: | Barbizon School, Itinerants, Товарищество художников, Товарищество южнорусских художников |
| Genre: | Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Realism |
