Konstantin Fjodorowitsch Bogajewski

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Ships, evening sun - 1912, Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg

Konstantin Bogaevsky ( Russian Константин Фёдорович Богаевский ; born January 12 . Jul / 24. January  1872 greg. In Feodosiya ; † 17th February 1943 ) was a Russian painter of the Silver Age . Along with the marinist Konstantin Aivazovsky, he is considered to be one of the most important artistic personalities of Feodossia.

Life

Bogajewski, the son of a small employee, entered the classical grammar school in 1880. From 1881 he was raised in the family of the factory owner Ivan Egorowitsch Schmit in Feodosia. At first he learned in the artist workshop of Aivazovsky in Feodossija and with Adolf Fessler, but without success. He later entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and learned there from 1891–1895 in the workshop of Archip Ivanovich Kuindschi (Russian Куинджи). In 1890 he went to the Volga to study drawing, in 1897 he traveled with Kuindschi and his students to Germany, France and Austria. There he familiarized himself with contemporary European art. According to tradition, the works of the artists of the Vienna Secession and Arnold Böcklin made the greatest impression on him.

From 1900 Bogajewski exhibited, initially in Petersburg, then in Venice, Munich (Secession), Paris and Moscow. In 1904 he joined the New Art Society (Russian Новое общество художников). He did his military service in the Kerch fortress . In 1906 he was released from military service and married Josefine Gustawona Durante (Russian Жозефине Густавовне Дуранте). In the same year he set up an artist's workshop in Feodosiya, in which he worked until the end of his life in 1943. In 1908 he toured Germany and in 1909 Italy and Greece and made himself acquainted with the works of old masters. In 1910 he was elected a member of the Moscow Circle of Artists' Friends (Russian Московского Товарищества Художников). In the same year, Maximilian Voloshin's volume of poetry "Gody Stranstwij" (Russian Годы странствий, German: Wanderjahre), illustrated by Bogajewski, was published. 1911-1914 he took part in the exhibitions of Mir Iskusstwa . In 1912 he created his most famous work - three panels for the villa of the banker Stepan Ryabushinsky in Moscow. In 1914 Bogayevsky was drafted into the army again. He served in Sevastopol and was discharged from military service in 1918. After the October Revolution he stayed in Feodosia and took part in exhibitions again. In 1923 he worked on a plant for the agricultural exhibition in Moscow. In 1933 he received the title of "Honored Artist of the RSFSR ". 1936-1939 Bogajewski worked in Tarus. In 1941 the area in which he was staying was occupied by the Germans. He was killed in a Soviet bombing raid on Feodosiya in 1943.

According to the testimonies of contemporaries, he was closed, good-natured, peaceful and an extraordinarily naive person. His closest friends were the artists Konstantin Kandaurow (Russian Константин Кандауров) and Maximilian Woloschin (Russian Максимилиан Волошин, 1877–1932).

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Note: The German titles of the paintings are only approximate translations and not the official German titles.

In the years 1902–1903 the artist created a series of pictures in which he depicted the well-known landscape of the Crimea (The old Crimea - Старый Крым, The old fortress - Древняя крепость). For a long time he then painted landscapes that did not depict a specific location. The influence of Böcklin and Klimt (Last Rays - Последние лучи) can be seen in these pictures with an expressive sky and a characteristic representation of the light emanating from some spots of color. These features found no continuation in Russian painting. Parallels can be found in Western European painting, except for Klimt, unexpectedly in Giovanni Segantini . Bogajewski's sun is typical of this period - with diverging rays and chalk cliffs. Under Voloshin's influence Bogayevsky painted the pictures of his Crimean cycle (Киммерийский цикл).

Since 1906, after the long isolation through his military service in Kerch, philosophical motifs have appeared in Bogayevski's works, which are connected with the loneliness and nothingness of the human being (stars from Polyn - Звезда Полынь - based on a poem by Voloshin - Полынь, sun - Солнце , Genoa Fortress - Генуэзская крепость). The artist's harmony is restored in 1907 and 1908 (southern country, cave city - Южная страна, Пещерный город).

After traveling through Europe, beginning in 1910, Bogajewski painted classical landscapes, obviously under the influence of the German ( Albrecht Dürer , Albrecht Altdorfer ) and Italian ( Andrea Mantegna ) masters of the Renaissance and also under the undoubted influence of Claude Lorrain , from whom Bogajewski (like formerly William Turner accepted) the representation of light has (memory of Mantegna - Воспоминание о Мантенье, Italian landscape - Итальянский пейзаж, Classical landscape - пейзаж Классический, Cimmerian landscape - Киммерийская область - Cimmerians , rear sight Generic Bosporus = Kerch Strait , ships - Корабли ).

In 1912 Bogajewski created three works for the banker Ryabushinsky for his villa in Moscow.

The same motifs are continued in Bogajewski's works of the 1920s and 1930s (Feodosiya - Феодосия, Crimean landscape - Крымский пейзаж, old port - Старая гавань, Evening by the Sea - Вечер у моря). In the 1920s, the artist tried to turn to the theme of industrial buildings (Dneprostroj - Днепрострой, port of an imagined city - Порт воображаемого города) with the obvious intention of using artistic means to depict the face of a city of the future.

Important exhibition locations

Picture gallery

  • Consult tower in Sudak . 1903 . Picture gallery in Feodosia

  • Old Crimea - Старый Крым . 1903 . Art Museum in Saratov

  • Tropical landscape - Тропический пейзаж . 1906 . Russian Museum

  • Seaside - Берег моря . 1907 . Tretyakov Gallery

  • Southern country, cave city - Южная страна. Пещерный город . 1908 . Sevastopol Art Museum

  • Palms - Пальмы . 1908 . Sevastopol Art Museum

  • Tomorrow - Утро . 1910 . Tretyakov Gallery

  • Cimmerian twilight - Киммерийские сумерки watercolor. 1911

  • Italian Landscape - Итальянский пейзаж 1911 . Tretyakov Gallery

  • Kaffa - Кафа (Old Feodosiya) 1927 . Picture gallery in Feodosia

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personal data
SURNAME Bogajewski, Konstantin Fjodorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Богаевский, Константин Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Feodosia
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1943
Place of death Feodosia