Konstantin Gorbatov - part 1

Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov was born in Stavropol in the Samara province. He lived in Riga from 1896 to 1903, and studied civil engineering before painting. Gorbatov moved to St. Petersburg in 1904 and studied at the Baron Stieglitz Central School for Technical Draughtsmanship. He initially entered the architecture department of the Imperial Academy of Arts before switching to painting that he studied under Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy. Gorbatov received a scholarship and studied art in Rome and Capri, Italy. He returned to St. Petersburg and participated in the Peredvizhniki exhibitions.

Gorbatov left Russia permanently in 1922 following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and settled on Capri. He moved to Berlin in 1926, where he remained until his death. Gorbatov became a member of a Russian emgiree artistic circle that included Leonid Pasternak, Vadim Falileyev, and Ivan Myasoyedov. He became a well-known and established artist. Gorbatov travelled throughout Europe during the late 1930s, visited Palestine and Syria in 1934 and 1935, and often came by Italy. Gorbatov's art became unwanted in Nazi Germany and the family soon became impoverished. As a Russian émigré, he was forbidden to leave Germany during World War II. 

Gorbatov died shortly after the allied victory over Germany on 12 May 1945. His wife committed suicide on 17 June 1945.

Gorbatov bequeathed art to the Academy of Arts in Leningrad. The works were delivered to the Moscow Regional Museum of history and Arts near the New Jerusalem Monastery, since when they have been on exhibition.

This is part 1 of 6 parts on the works of Konstantin Gorbatov:

Note: Size details were not found for many of the images.

c1895 Landscape with a Fence
oil on canvas

1902 Women Swimming
oil on canvas

1903 Farm Buildings near Majori
oil on canvas 48.5 x 68 cm

1905 Pskov
oil on canvas

1907 A Grey Day
oil on cardboard

1909 A Russian Monastery in Winter
oil on canvas

1910 In the Country
oil on canvas

1910 Winter Evening
oil on canvas

1910 Winter
oil on cardboard

1910 Winter Thaw, Pskov
oil on canvas

1910s Jetty on the River
oil on canvas laid down on board 37 x 51 cm

1911 An Old Town in Winter
oil on canvas

1911 The Harbour
oil on canvas 145.5 x 218.5 cm

1911 View of Novgorod
gouache on paper laid down on board 47 x 63.8 cm

1911 Windmills
gouache

1912 Boats in Veliky Novgorod
oil on canvas

1912 Venice
oil on canvas

1913 Barges in Novgorod
oil on canvas

1913 Early Spring
oil on board 31 x 48 cm

1913 Old Pskov
oil on canvas

1913 Pier in the Old Town
watercolour and gouache on paper, laid on board
 48.5 x 65 cm

1913 Russian Town in early Spring
oil on canvas 49.5 x 68 cm

1913 Seville
gouache

1913 Still Life with Apples
oil on cardboard

1914 Boats on a River
oil on canvas 51 x 68 cm

1914 Pskov City, on the River Velikaya
oil on canvas

1914 The Doge's Palace, Venice
gouache

c1914 Barges
tempera on panel

1915 (Attributed to Gobatov) Harbour, early Evening
oil on canvas laid on board 47 x 71 cm

1915 A View of St.Petersburg
oil on canvas

1915 Evening in the Harbour
oil on canvas

1915 Province
oil on canvas

1915 Pskov
oil on canvas

1915 Sailboats in the Harbour
oil on canvas

1915 The First Snow on the River
oil on canvas

1915 The Old Town
oil on canvas

1915 The Trinity Monastery
oil on canvas

1915 Town on the River
oil on canvas

1915 Troitse-Sergiev Posad
oil on canvas

1915 View from a River on Old Town
oil on canvas

1915 View of St.Isaac's Cathedral
oil on canvas

1916 Corner of a Museum
oil on wood panel

1916 Early Spring
oil on canvas

1916 Landscape with a House
oil on canvas

1916 The Trinity Monastery
oil on wood panel

1916 Venice
oil on canvas

1916 Winter Landscape
oil on board 21 x 28 cm

1917 Flowers on the Veranda
oil on canvas