I like some of the works of the Russian born artist Konstantin Gorbatov I can feel the warmth the coldness and other emotions in them... Biography Gorbatov was born in Stavropol in the Samara province. He lived in Riga from 1896 to 1903, and studied civil engineering before painting. Gorbatov moved to St. Petersburg in 1904 and studied at the Baron Stieglitz Central School for Technical Draftsmanship. He initially entered the architecture department of the Imperial Academy of Arts before switching to painting which he studied under Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy, he received a scholarship and studied art in Rome and Capri. He later returned to St. Petersburg and participated in the Peredvizhniki exhibitions. Gorbatov left Russia permanently in 1922 following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and settled on the Italian island of Capri. He then moved to Berlin in 1926, where he remained until his death. Gorbatov became a member of a Russian emgiree artistic circle that included Leonid Pasternak, Vadim Falileyev, Ivan Myasoyedov. He became a well-known established artist. Gorbatov traveled throughout Europe during the late 1930s, visited Palestine and Syria in 1934 and 1935, and often came by Italy. Gorbatov's art became unpopular in Nazi Germany and the family soon became impoverished. As a Russian émigré, he was forbidden to leave Germany during World War II, and died shortly after the allied victory over Germany on 12 May 1945. His wife committed suicide on 17 June 1945. Gorbatov bequeathed his works to the Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg, they were eventually delivered to the Moscow Regional Museum of History and Arts near the New Jerusalem Monastery, where they have since been exhibited. His wife on their veranda
Thanks so much for showing these paintings and the info on the artist - beautiful work, really like - in fact in the Spring I'm gonna get meself a canvas and try to copy me favourite one, just to see how I do. I'm hopeless at drawing, but painting not too bad, although that was many years ago and arthritis may pose a problem, but I'll have a go His story is tragic which makes the paintings even more beautiful, can almost feel his presence
Glad you liked them Patsy, please post some of your paintings if possible, I am hopeless at creating art but can appreciate it...
I only painted three pictures years back, to see if I could paint 'something' One was of a tree as I love them so much, wanted to show the branches so didn't paint leaves, I was happy with it The next was a clown, as I feel an affinity with them, happy and sad kinda thing The 3rd was a view but they have gone to the great landscape in the sky, floating around somewhere with my name on them If I manage a new one I'll put it on - just for a laugh
Very interesting @Terry Page and I really like his paintings too. I'm more of the paint by the number kind of artist....but I did buy myself a beginners oil paint set the Christmas before last and sooner or later I am going to go buy a canvas or two and see if there's more than a paint by the number artist in me.