| ('To necklace' is to decorate with a necklace) Thanks to Greek from Ukraine Kiriak Kostandi (Ukrainian: Киріак Костянтинович Костанді; Russian: Кириак Константинович Костанди; October 3 [OS September 21],1852, Dofinivka, Odesa county, Kherson gubernia, now Odessa,Ukraine -31 October 1921, Odessa,Ukraine ), a prominent Ukrainian painter and an art scholar. A member of the Russian realist artistic movement Peredvizhniki, he also authored several Impressionist paintings. Most of Kostandi's life and work is connected with the city of Odessa (now in Ukraine) in the south-west of the Russian Empire where he lived most of his life. His paintings are displayed in the museums of Odessa, Kiev, Moscow and St. Petersburg. His father was a Greek emigrant Konstantinidi Vasilketi (Konstantinidi became the basis of surname Kostandi). At the age of nine he was left without a father, worked as a barman in the grocery store and a wine cellar in Odessa. From 1868 he served as a retoucher in the photo shops. Kostandi graduated from the Odessa Drawing School in 1874, and then the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1882. He then returned to Odessa, where he painted and taught at the drawing school. In1887 has visited several countries in Western Europe, experienced a profound influence of French impressionists.In 1897 he joined the Peredvizhniki. Kostandi played an important part in introducing the ideology of the Peredvizhniki to Ukraine. He was one of the founders of the Society of South ... |
