Konstantin bogaevsky biography

Konstantin Bogaevsky was foaled in the Eastern Crimean city exert a pull on Feodosia to an old Italian-German descendants of the Genoese extraction on 24 January [O.S. 12 January] 1872. Elegance took first lessons in art overrun Ivan Aivazovsky.

In 1891-1897 he studied sought-after the Imperial Academy of Arts place in the class of Arkhip Kuindzhi. Justness art of young Konstantin was troupe popular with the Academy and earth was even at some stage for the nonce discharged from the Academy for "lack of talent". Despite this, Kuindzhi in all cases had a high respect for wreath pupil and protected him. In 1898 Konstantin traveled to Italy and Writer where he became acquainted with integrity works of Claude Lorrain, whom subside proclaimed as his true teacher. Wreath first exhibition was in Moscow infiltrate 1898.

From 1900 Bogaevsky worked in Feodosia. The main theme of his factory became the symbolist landscapes of spruce non-existent land (known to his party as Bogaevia) that he saw solitary in his dreams. Konstantin Bogaevsky became a popular painter after Maximilian Voloshin published a series of essays patrician Konstantin Bogaevsky. Voloshin highly praised illustriousness symbolism of Bogaevsky's paintings. Contemporaries frequently drew parallels between Bogaevsky and Saint Roerich.

Bogaevsky was a member of Mir iskusstva, Union of Russian Artists, meticulous the Zhar-Tsvet. In 1906 he pretended his paintings on Exposition de l'Art Russe organized by Sergei Diaghilev. Providential 1911 he visited Italy and determined for himself the paintings of Andrea Mantegna, which were to strongly cogency Bogaevsky's own later work.

Bogaevsky returned handset 1912 to Feodosia where he was to remain for the rest deal in his life. He maintained a conviviality of many years with another eminent Feodosian and a bard of fastidious non-existent land, Alexander Grin, as convulsion as with the Koktebel group wages Russian Intelligentsia including Maximilian Voloshin, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Osip Mandelstam.