Veniamin Kostitsin
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Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...
), is a Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
-born artist based in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
. His oeuvre primarily incorporates painting, graphics and mixed media.
Childhood
Veniamin Kostitsin was born in KrasnoyarskKrasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and grew up in Norilsk
Norilsk
Norilsk is an industrial city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located between the Yenisei River and the Taymyr Peninsula. Population: It was granted city status in 1953. It is the northernmost city in Siberia and the world's second largest city north of the Arctic Circle...
after his parents relocated. In 1971, he moved back to Moscow, where he married Svetlana Mikhailovna Teterina, an art historian, in 1973. Their son, Veniamin Kostitsin-Teterin, is a photographer.
Education
Kostitsin has enjoyed artistic training since early adolescence. Between 1964 and 1968, Veniamin Kostitsin studied at the 'Grekov' Art College in OdessaOdessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
. From 1972 to 1978, he completed his education at the WGIK (All-Union State Institute for Cinematography) in Moscow, as an art director.
Works
Leningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
. Between 1975 and 1989, Kostitsin illustrated over 20 books for children, some of which were re-published in English and German. Until 1989, Veniamin Kostitsin exhibited throughout the Soviet Union, his work often being purchased for the numerous state collections.
Svetlana Teterina used her position as a custodian at the Polenovo estate museum of Vasily Polenov
Vasily Polenov
Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.-Biography:...
to introduce her fiance, Kostitsin, to the art-elite and offspring of local nobility in Tarusa
Tarusa
Tarusa is a town and the administrative center of Tarussky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River, south of Serpukhov, northeast of Kaluga, and about south of Moscow. Population:...
, Meshchovsk
Meshchovsk
Meshchovsk is a town in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Tureya River southwest of Kaluga. Population: It was first mentioned in Russian chronicles in connection with the Mongol invasion of Rus in 1238...
and Polenovo. Tarusa, a family seat of the Teterin family, has since played a significant role in the artistic life of Veniamin Kostitsin. The area's landscape was often reproduced in Veniamin's illustrations for publications of 19th Century Russian literature and featured prominently in his paintings between 1973 and 1987. The artist was also strongly influenced by Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki , often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870.- History :In 1863 a group of fourteen students...
during this period.
Veniamin Kostitsin has lived and workd in Baden bei Wien
Baden bei Wien
-Points of interest:The town offers several parks and a picturesque surrounding, of which the most frequented is the Helenental valley. Not far from Baden, the valley is crossed by a widespread aqueduct of the Vienna waterworks...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, since 1990.
Books / illustrations (incomplete)
- "Yellow Beak" by Aleksej Tolstoy, Malysh publishing house, 1987. ISBN 5050024935
- "Deti Podzemelja" by Vladimir KorolenkoVladimir KorolenkoVladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian. His short stories were known for their harsh description of nature based on his experience of exile in Siberia...
- "Stihotvorenija" by Nikolaj Nekrasov
- "Dedushka Mazaj i Zajcy" by Nikolaj Nekrasov, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1987
- "Novels" by August StrindbergAugust StrindbergJohan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
- "Hrabryj Ruchej" by Viktor Banykin, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1988. ISBN 5-268-00665-7
- "Zimnyaya Doroga : Poems by Russian authors", Malysh publishing house, 1986.
- "Belyj Pudel" by Aleksandr KuprinAleksandr KuprinAleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin , was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel . Other well-known works include Moloch , Olesya , Junior Captain Rybnikov , Emerald , and The Garnet Bracelet...
, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1988. ISBN 5-268-00669-x