Early Life and Education Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871 – 1960) was a Russian Post-Impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian of art. Grabar, descendant of a wealthy Rusyn family, was trained as a painter by Ilya Repin in Saint Petersburg and by Anton Àžbe in Munich. He reached his peak in painting between 1903–1907 and was notable for a peculiar divisionist painting technique bordering on pointillism and his rendition of snow. His parents, Emanuil Hrabar and Olga Dobryansky, were deeply rooted in the Slavic liberation movement and faced persecution from the Austro-Hungarian g…