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4346 - Minsk, Belarus

Pretty card. I thought this was a photograph but it is landscape painting by Russian Ivan Shishkin  Иван  Шишкин  (1832-1898) entitled Old Fallen Trees. Forest Cemetery, 1893.  Shishkin was born in Yelabuga in 1832. He attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture and the Imperial Academy of Arts.  He was a part of the realism movement and a member of the Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions. It evoled into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki).  Shishkin painted The Pine Grove in 1898. He had a fatal heart attack is Saint Petersburg while sitting at his easel in front of said painting. 

4255 - Saint Petersburg, Russia

 

4037 - Michendorf, Brandenburg, Germany

This card was sent from Michedorf, located about nine kilometres from Potsdam. The population is about 7500 people.  This card is a landscape painting by Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898). He was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist. He is considered one of the most famous landscape painters of the post-reform era.  On 20 March 1898, he died suddenly of a heart attack is Saint Petersburg, sitting in front of a new painting.