Kazantsev, Vladimir G. (1849-1902)

Only at the age of thirty-one Vladimir G. Kazantsev volnoprihodyaschim student enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts. Before that, he graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University and worked as a judicial investigator. Since 1883 Kazantsev become a permanent member of academic exhibitions. In 1884, the artist's permit for the contest, the winner of which gets the right to travel to a foreign trip. His picture is not won, but for her academic painter gets the title of artist of the second degree.

VG Kazantsev was born landscape painter. Many parts of Russia, he captures in his paintings species: the different seasons and different times of day. We list some of the landscapes created by the artist: "Morning in the field", "late autumn" (both - 1883), "For the Urals," "Frosty Night" (both - 1884), "Evening at times," "Fireweed (the Urals ) "(both - 1885)," Noon in the north, "" Midnight in the north "(both - 1886)," The Night "(1887)," Fog on the Chusovoi "(1888)," End of September "(1889). VG Kazantsev was fortunate to work at a time when the landscape out in a leading position of domestic art.