Kyriak Kostandi
Kyriak Kostiantynovych Kostandi (– 31 October 1921) was a prominent painter and an art scholar from the Russian Empire. A member of the Russian realist artistic movement Peredvizhniki (lit. Itinerants) he also authored several Impressionist paintings.
Also recorded as Kyriakos Kostandi · Kiriak Kostandi · Kiviak Konstantinovič Kostandi · Kiriak Konstantinovich Kostandi
Kyriak Kostandi

Журнал "Огонёк", № 7, 1910 · Public domain
- Born
- 3 October 1852
- Birthplace
- Dofinivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kherson, Ukraine)
- Died
- 31 October 1921
- Place of death
- Odesa, Ukrainian SSR
- Known for
- Painting
- Education
- Member
- Nationality
- Russian Empire.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Movements
- Peredvizhniki.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Kyriak Kostiantynovych Kostandi (– 31 October 1921) was a prominent painter and an art scholar from the Russian Empire. A member of the Russian realist artistic movement Peredvizhniki (lit. Itinerants) he also authored several Impressionist paintings.
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Biography
Biography
Most of Kostandi's life and work is connected with the city of Odesa (now in Ukraine) in the southwest of the Russian Empire where he lived most of his life. His paintings are displayed in the museums of Odesa, Kyiv, Moscow and St.
Kyriak Kostandi studied at Imperial Academy of Arts and Hrekov Odesa Art school. Petro Konovskyi, Petro Porubaiev and Marko Borysovych Bruckman are recorded as having studied under Kyriak Kostandi. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Odesa. Positions recorded include chairperson. Work by Kyriak Kostandi is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Warsaw, National Art Museum of Ukraine and Tretyakov Gallery.
Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 3 October 1852 • Birthplace — Dofinivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kherson, Ukraine) • Died — 31 October 1921 • Place of death — Odesa, Ukrainian SSR • Known for — Painting • Alma Mater — Alumni • Education — Member
Life
Life
Kostandi was born in 1852 in Dofinovka, close to the city of Odesa, into a family of Greek descent. Kostandi graduated from the Odesa Drawing School in 1874, and then the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1882. He then returned to Odesa, where he painted and taught at the drawing school. 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 Russian Artists, serving as the society's president from 1902 to 1920. In 1907 he was elected a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. From 1917 he served as director of the Odesa City Museum. Kostandi was a strict realist, and was opposed to every formalist trend. He was mainly a genre painter, but also did some landscape painting and portrait painting. After his death, his followers started the Kostandi Society of Artists.
Characteristics of art
Characteristics of art
Kostandi is an artist whose canvases are built at the junction of high craftsmanship and an understanding of tragic existence. They are characterized by a wide range of social problems, which cannot but concern him. At the end of the 1880s, a change occurs in Kostandi's work. He remains committed to the genre of life but fundamentally changes the artistic approaches and his view of the essence of painting. At that time, he considers the problems of sunlight and plain air to be the most important ones. In a sense, inheriting the masters of Impressionism, for which the importance of temporal and psychological unity, Kostandi, in his small paintings tries to stop time and moment of feeling. His contemporaries have pointed out that Kostandi was a philosophical artist. From the 1890s all his paintings have the peculiarity of a small plotline, almost minimalism in the image, combined with a high poetic mood. It is the transmission of feelings and moods that becomes the artist's main aim.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Have a sick friend (1884) • Illustration — Out Into the World (1885) • Illustration — In the country. Noon (1892) • Illustration — Landscape (1897) • Illustration — Lilac (1902) • Illustration — Early spring (1915) • Illustration — Jackdaw. Autumn (1915)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Kyriakos Kostandi, Kiriak Kostandi, Kiviak Konstantinovič Kostandi, Kiriak Konstantinovich Kostandi and Kiriak Konstyantynovych Kostandi. His recorded language was Russian. One child is recorded: Mykhailo Kostandi.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1852
Kyriak Kostandi born at Nova Dofinivka.
1921
Kyriak Kostandi died at Odesa.
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Nova Dofinivka.
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Odesa.
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- 1.Kostandi, Kyriak at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- 2.Peredvizhniki at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- 3.Sergey Kuznetsov. "Kostandi, Kiriak." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. (accessed November 4, 2008).
- 4.Kostandi Society of Artists at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- 5.Sharov, Ihor. Khudoz︠h︡nyky Ukraïny : 100 vydatnykh imen. ArtEk. 2007. 978-966-505-134-3.
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Kyriak Kostandi studied at Imperial Academy of Arts and Hrekov Odesa Art school. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
Kyriak Kostandi worked in painting. His work is associated with Peredvizhniki. Recorded position is chairperson. He belonged to Society of South Russian Artists. He worked at Odesa.
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