In the Universe all things are but a reflection of the Divine, and in each spark of light the Divine Energy is at play
(Living Ethics).
Bogaevsky first began to write the Face of the Earth. In pictures it(him) appears shabby лик of ground, similarly to the tragical mask which has stiffened in an impulse of bitter pathos.
Maximilian Voloshin.
... Konstantin Bogaevsky - the singer of Crimea - has given, not repeated style... The characteristic rocks both old towers Tauria and completely special circuit of colour Are unforgettable...
Nicholas Roerich.
Konstantin Bogaevsky
(on January, 24th 1872 - on February, 17th 1943)
Was born in Feodosiya. Studied in the Petersburg Academy of arts under direction of A.I.Kuindzhi. The representative of symbolism, the master of a landscape, the painter and the schedule, the founder of original is epic-romantic style of a landscape of east part of Crimea - Kimmeria.
Biographical outline.
About Cimmeria.
Poetry and painting.
Biography
Konstantin Feodorovich Bogaevsky was born in Feodosia, Crimea (today’s Ukraine) in 1872. Painter well known for his symbolist landscapes. He took his first art lessons from Ivan Aivazovsky. In 1891-1897 he studied at the St. Petersburg Art Academy (Imperial Academy of Arts) in the class of Arkhip Kuindzhi. The art of young Bogaevsky was not popular with the Academy and he was even at some stage temporarily discharged from the Academy for the "Lack of the Talents". Despite this, Kuindzhi always had a high respect for his pupil and protected him.
In 1898 Bogaevsky traveled to Italy and France where he became acquainted with works of Claude Lorrain, whom he proclaimed as his true teacher. His first exhibition took place in Moscow in 1898.
The artists worked in Feodosia since 1900. The main theme of his works became the symbolist landscapes of a non-existent land (known to his friends as Bogaevia) that he saw only in his dreams. Konstantin Bogaevsky became a popular painter after
Maximilian Voloshin
published a series of essays titled Konstantin Bogaevsky. Voloshin highly praised the symbolism of Bogaevsky`s paintings.
Contemporaries often drew parallel between Bogaevsky and Nicholas Roerich.
Bogaevsky was a member of Mir iskusstva, Union of Russian Artists and the
Zhar-Tsvet.
In 1906 he exhibited his paintings on Exposition de l`Art Russe organized by Sergei Diaghilev.
In 1911 he visited Italy and discovered for himself paintings of Andrea Mantegna.
In Feodosia from 1912 Bogaevsky kept good relations with another famous artist, Alexander Grin, as well as with members of the Koktebel group of Intelligentsia including Maximilian Voloshin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam.
After the October Revolution Bogaevsky went into an obscurity, although the Soviets did not prosecute him, and the work of 1932 Port of an Imaginable City was even praised as Socialist Realism painting of the DnieproGES.
Konstantin Bogaevsky was lost in Feodosia of February 17 1943 at explosion of an airbomb.
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The Crimean kind.
1898. Oil on canvas. The Aivazovsky Art Gallery, Feodosia, Ukraine.
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Last beams.
1903. Oil on canvas.
The Sevastopol art museum it. P.M.Kroshitskogo, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
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Tropical landscape.
1906. Oil on canvas. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Evening landscape.
1907. Cardboard, gouache.
The Kostroma state incorporated art museum, Kostroma,
Russia.
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Altars.
1907. Oil on canvas. The Yaroslavl art museum, Yaroslavl, Russia.
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The Genoa fortress.
1907. Oil on canvas.
The Perm state art gallery, Perm, Russia.
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Star the Wormwood.
1908. Paper, ink.
The Simferopol art museum, Simferopol, Ukraine.
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Mountain St.Georgia.
1911. Oil on canvas.
State museum of fine arts of Republic Tatarstan, Kazan.
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The southern country. Cave city.
1908. Oil on canvas. The Sevastopol art museum it. P.M.Kroshitskogo, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
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Palm trees.
1908. Paper, a water color, a pastel.
The Sevastopol art museum it. P.M.Kroshitskogo, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
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Memoirs about Mantenie.
1910. Sketch. Tempera on canvas.
The Kirov regional art museum of name V.М. and A.M. Vasnetsovyh, Kirov, Russia.
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Cloud.
1910. Oil on canvas. The Nizhniy Novgorod art museum, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia.
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Morning.
1910. Sketch. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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Classical landscape.
1910. Oil on canvas. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Landscape with the lock.
1912. A paper, a water colour, a pastel.
The Aivazovsky Art Gallery, Feodosia, Ukraine.
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Romantic landscape.
1914. Paper, water colour. The Aivazovsky Art Gallery, Feodosia, Ukraine.
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Cloud.
1920s. Paper, a water colour, a pastel. The Aivazovsky Art Gallery, Feodosia, Ukraine.
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The coming sun.
1920s. Paper, coal.
The Simferopol art museum, Simferopol, Ukraine.
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Kaffa (Old Feodosia).
1927. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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Romantic landscape.
1930s. Paper, water colour. The Simferopol art museum, Simferopol, Ukraine.
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Mountain landscape with trees. Ortalani.
1930s. Paper, water colour.
The Simferopol art museum, Simferopol, Ukraine.
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Birchwood.
1930s. Paper, water colour.
The Simferopol art museum, Simferopol, Ukraine.
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The Crimean landscape.
1930. Oil on canvas.
The Aivazovsky Art Gallery, Feodosia, Ukraine.
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Old harbour.
1931. Oil on canvas.
The Simferopol art museum, Simferopol, Ukraine.
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Rainbow.
1931. A paper, a water colour. The state museum of the fine arts it. A.S.Pushkina, Moscow, Russia
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Evening at the sea.
1941. Oil on canvas.
The Simferopol art museum, Simferopol, Ukraine.
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Mountain landscape.
1940s. Oil on canvas.
The Aivazovsky Art Gallery, Feodosia, Ukraine.
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Mountain landscape.
1940. Oil on canvas.
The Simferopol art museum, Simferopol, Ukraine.
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K. Bogaevsky The ships. The evening sun.
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