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Konstantin Andreevich Somov

Konstantin Andreevich Somov (1869 - 1939) was active/lived in Russian Federation, France.  Konstantin Somov is known for Portrait, figure, landscape and aristocratic genre painting, teaching.

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Constantin Andreevich Somov was born in St. Petersburg on November 30, 1869 into the family of the senior curator at the Hermitage, artist and art historian, Andrei Ivanovich Somov and his wife, Nadezhda Constantinovna, an excellent musician. The family had a big collection of paintings, etchings, watercolors, and big library; the artists were frequent guests in the house. Constantin started to learn to play piano, singing, and painting early.

From 1888 till 1897, he studied at the Academy of Arts, where from 1894 he took a course at Ilya Repin's studio. Later he wrote that the first five years in the Academy were a lost and fruitless time. Nevertheless he took the studies very seriously and got a number of awards in the academy. The work with Repin can be felt in some of his paintings of those years, e.g. portraits of N. Ober, wife of the sculptor Ober (1896), Portrait of Father (1897), Self-Portrait (1898).

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Facts about Konstantin Andreevich Somov

   Konstantin Andreevich Somov  Born:  1869 - St. Petersburg, Russia
Died:   1939 - Paris, France
Known for:  Portrait, figure, landscape and aristocratic genre painting, teaching
Name variants:  Constantin Andrejewitsch Somoff, Konstantin Andreevic Sumov

Constantin Andreevich Somov was born in St. Petersburg on November 30, 1869 into the family of the senior curator at the Hermitage, artist and art historian, Andrei Ivanovich Somov and his wife, Nadezhda Constantinovna, an excellent musician. The family had a big collection of paintings, etchings, watercolors, and big library; the artists were frequent guests in the house. Constantin started to learn to play piano, singing, and painting early.

From 1888 till 1897, he studied at the Academy of Arts, where from 1894 he took a course at Ilya Repin's studio. Later he wrote that the first five years in the Academy were a lost and fruitless time. Nevertheless he took the studies very seriously and got a number of awards in the academy. The  ...  Displaying 750 of 5122 characters.

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