Грабарь, Игорь Эммануилович

Painter, publisher, restorer and art historian

Born Budapest, 25 March 1871

Died Moscow, 16 May 1960

Grabar, born into a wealty Ukrainian family was trained as a painter by Ilia Repin in St. Petersburg and studied at the Azbe School in Munich. In 1902 he joined the Mir Iskusstva group. For his opus magnum, The History of Russian Art, he engaged the best critics and writers en wrote himself the chapters on architecture that would set the standard for this subject. In 1913 he was appointed director of the Moscow Tretiakov Gallery and in 1921 he became the first professor of art restoration at the Moscow State University. Until his death in 1960, Grabar stayed at the top of the Soviet art estabishment.

1910-14

1912

1931

1948

1953

1957

1963

1977