(b Ruza, nr Moscow, 16 June 1864; d Svistukha, nr Moscow, 16 Aug 1910). Russian painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1878–82 and 1884–5) under Illarion Pryanishnikov and others. He was a member of the Wanderers from 1899 and of the Union of Russian Artists, of which he was one of the founders. Ivanov became dissatisfied with the traditional Wanderers-style realism of the late 19th century and early 20th and with the painting of genre scenes—‘nice little scenes’, as he called them—and he aspired to a strongly dramatic expressive art, in which ‘the heartbeat of the human soul’ could be felt. His series of pictures of migrants, capturing the tragedies of peasant life (e.g. On the Road: Death of a Migrant, 1889; Moscow, Tret’yakov Gal.), is marked by an austere verism.

• Ivanov, Sergey (Vasil'yevich)
  • groups and movements
    • Moscow, §II, 2: Art life and organization, c 1700–1917
    • Romanticism, §3(ii): Manifestations in art: Painting
    • Russia, §IV, 2(iii): Painting, graphic arts and sculpture, c 1900–1916
  • pupils
    • Gerasimov, Sergey
    • Kravchenko, Aleksey
  • teachers
    • Pryanishnikov, Illarion