Konstantin Fedorovich Bogaevsky was born on January 12, 1872 in Feodosia and lived almost his whole life in this picturesque Crimean city on the Black Sea coast. He started painting at the age of six. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts with the remarkable landscape painter, peredvizhnik Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi.
Crimea is the main theme of Bogaevsky\u2019s work. There he created his heroic and fantastic landscapes, transforming the local nature. Most of all he loved to paint ancient Crimea – legendary Cimmeria, about whom he knew from Homer\u2019s \u201cOdyssey.\u201d
Bogaevsky\u2019s paintings, including the \u201cCrimean Landscape,\u201d painted in 1924, are composition-fantasies. When he worked, a panorama of ancient Crimea stood before his \u201cmind\u2019s eye.\u201d Ruins of the structures, centuries-old trees, broken tracks of the roads, paths of distant ages – all this became a reality for him. And the ancient Crimean land looked dark, sad and severe to him. He was particularly attracted by the severity and solemnity of Crimea\u2019s eastern coast.
Many of Bogaevsky\u2019s paintings have a space theme. The sun, the moon, the stars, the clouds occupy an important place in them. As contemporaries testify, he has paid great attention to astronomy. He had his own telescope and liked to watch the heavenly bodies at night. The artist\u2019s wife wrote: \u201cHe loved astronomy, knew the starry sky as \u2018his own land\u2019.\u201d
And on \u201cCrimean Landscape\u201d the sun shines brightly over the ancient Cimmerian land, and if you look carefully, maybe you can see even \u201ctwo suns.\u201d The picture is painted in watercolor on paper. Along with oil painting, the artist used extensively also watercolor, pencils and ink.
The activities of Konstantin Fedorovich Bogaevsky continued until the 1940s. The artist\u2019s life tragically ended on February 17, 1943 in Feodosia by a bomb explosion. Konstantin Fedorovich transmitted in his art the great love to nature of the eastern coast of Crimea, which in the person of Bogaevsky found his true singer.
K. F. Bogaevsky at the Museum of Russian Art (Prof. A. Abrahamyan\u2019s collection):
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