11 Facts About Kyriak Kostandi

Kyriak Kostandi's paintings are displayed in the museums of Odesa, Kyiv, Moscow and St Petersburg.

Kyriak Kostandi was born in 1852 in Dofinovka, close to the city of Odesa, in a family of Greek descent.

Kyriak Kostandi graduated from the Odesa Drawing School in 1874, and then the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1882.

Kyriak Kostandi then returned to Odesa, where he painted and taught at the drawing school.

Kyriak Kostandi played an important part in introducing the ideology of the Peredvizhniki to Ukraine.

Kyriak Kostandi was one of the founders of the Society of South Russian Artists, serving as the society's president from 1902 to 1920.

Kyriak Kostandi was a strict realist, and was opposed to every formalist trend.

Kyriak Kostandi was mainly a genre painter, but did some landscape painting and portrait painting.

Kyriak Kostandi is an artist whose canvases are built at the junction of high craftsmanship and an understanding of tragic existence.

Kyriak Kostandi remains committed to the genre of life but fundamentally changes the artistic approaches and his view of the essence of painting.

Kyriak Kostandi's contemporaries have pointed out that Kostandi was a philosophical artist.