Sophia Ivanovna Kramskaya

Sophia Ivanovna Kramskaya (Софья Ивановна Юнкер-Крамская) (1866–1933) was a Russian painter.[1]

Sophia Ivanovna Kramskaya
Portrait of Sophia Ivanovna Kramskaya
by Ivan Kramskoi, 1882
Born1866 (1866)
Died1933 (aged 66–67)
NationalityRussian
Known forPainting
SpouseGeorge Junker

Biography

Kramskaya was born in 1866.[2] She was the daughter of the painter Ivan Kramskoi. She was married to George Junker, a lawyer in Saint Petersburg, who died in 1916.[3]

She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3]

Kramskaya spent several years in exile in Siberia for producing counter-revolutionary propaganda.[3] Kramskaya died in 1933.[2]

Her painting Girl in the Kokoshnik is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.[4]

References
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  1. "Sofia Ivanovna Kramskaya". Kunstkopie. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  2. "Russian Art - Sophia Ivanovna Kramskaya, the Artist's Daughter". Pelister. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  3. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  4. "Junker-Kramskaya, Sofya. 1866-1933". The State Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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