Konstantin Savitsky belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Konstantin Savitsky as Russian artist (1844-1905).
Konstantin Savitsky was born at Taganrog in 1844. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Imperial Academy of Arts and Chekhov Gymnasium.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, illustrator and head teacher.
His recorded movement is socialist realism.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Konstantin Savitsky died in 1905, aged 61. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: socialist realism
