Despite the fact that during the Soviet period, Grabar also painted portraits and large official canvases, landscape always dominated in his work. His landscapes created in the late 1930s through the 1940s are characterised by the same freshness and optimistic perception of the world as his early paintings in the genre. But at this point Grabar had switched to covering a larger area and to a broad, generalised composition.

Grabar Igor

Grabar, Igor Emmanuilovich
1871, Budapest — 1960, Moscow
Painter, art historian, art critic, museum curator. Studied law, history and philology at St. Petersburg university (1889–1896). Studied at the Higher School of Art, Imperial Academy of Arts (1894–1896) and at Anton Ažbe’s school in Munich (1896–1898). Academician of painting (1913). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1898). Taught at the Ažbe/Grabar school in Munich (1898–1901). Trustee (1913–1918) and director (1918–1925) of the Tretyakov Gallery; director of the Central Art and Restoration Studios (1918–1930).