I've only seen his paintings via the Internet, so my opinions are provisional. That said, I find the works of Konstantin Gorbatov (1876-1945) to be pleasant to view. But that's not why I'm featuring them in this post. It's because they strike me as solidly set within my mental concept of archetypical 1920s paintings of the minimally modernist style. It's the colors that matter most. To me, warm, toned-down reds, oranges, greens and, yes, even blues set the mood. Such color schemes were found in enough advertisements, murals and other art of the period that I'm afraid that my poor brain has been imprinted with that association. Another 1920s feature is a painterly technique wherein a painting is built up using solid, well-defined areas of color in its entirety or else used for significant parts that are offset by areas containing color gradations. Outlining shapes in a cloisonné manner often completes the 1920s stylistic package. Gorbatov has been typed as a post-impressionist, a label probably as good as any. His biographical information, on the Web at least, is rather thin: here is one link and another is here. Below are examples of his work. Gallery Town by Russian river Sunny snow scene, Russia View of Capri Clifftops, Capri Fishing Harbor, Capri - 1928 View of Venice - 1929 View of Basilica San Marco and the Ducal Palace, Venice - 1933 Chioggia Railroad poster art: Salzburg - 1930 In reality, the "look" shown above is not strictly 1920s; it can be found in works from earlier in the century. And here the colors areas are small, creating a setting for "visual mixing" -- illustrator N.C. Wyeth was doing something like this around 1910, for instance. Nevertheless, this general sort of look was in full swing during the 20s for certain artists not willing to go whole-hog modernist. Consider the painting below. This is a view of sailboats off Chioggia, Italy painted sometime 1922-24 by Edgar Payne, a leading California Impressionist. Compare to Gorbatov's Chioggia and Venice paintings above. Chioggia, by the way, is a small port city at the south end of the Venice lagoon. I've stayed there. It's an unpretentious place with a canal or two. You can travel to Venice from there by boat, but the trip takes a while. You'd probably be better off staying in Venice itself or perhaps a nearby coastal town such as Mestre, a short train ride away if the point of your trip was seeing Venice.
Charmed by Italy’s romantic aesthetics and inspired by its warmth and light, the Post-Impressionist artist Konstantin Gorbatov (1876-1945) created some of his most accomplished paintings while living on the island of Capri in the early 1920s.
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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 2 of 6 parts on the works of Konstantin Gorbatov For earlier works see part 1 also: Note: Size details were not found for many of the images. 1917 Interior oil on canvas 1917 Landscape with River oil on canvas 1917 Torzhok oil on canvas 1917 Winter Sunset oil on cardboard 1918 View of Novgorod oil on panel 21.5 x 29 cm 1918 View onto the Park oil onboard 21.5 x 29 cm 1919 Capri oil on canvas 1919 Harbour View at Sunset oil on cardboard 1919 Nizhny Novgorod oil on canvas 1919 Pier in Novgorod oil on cardboard 1919 Pskov oil on canvas 1919 Pskov oil on canvas 1919 Winter oil on canvas 1919 Village in the Winter Sun oil on canvas 1919 Venice oil on canvas 1919 Town on the River oil on canvas 1919 The Griboedov Canal in St.Petersburg oil on canvas 115.5 x 139.5 cm 1919 The Fontanka, St. Petersburg oil on canvas 115.5 x 139.5 cm 1919 Pskov oil on canvas 1920 A Street of a Provincial Town oil on canvas 1920 Autumn Day oil on canvas 1920 The Harbour oil on cardboard c1920 The Snowy Volga gouache on paper mounted on board 48.5 x 63.5 cm 1921 A Street in Winter watercolour 1921 Anchored Boats oil on canvas 1922 Early Spring in Pskov oil on canvas 1922 Early Spring, Blue Shadows oil on canvas 1922 Flowers in the Window oil on canvas 1922 Novgorod oil on canvas 1922 Pskov oil on canvas 1922 The Last Days of Summer oil on canvas 1922 The Russian Province in Spring oil on canvas 1922 View of Pskov under Snow oil on panel 23.5 x 31.5 cm 1922 Winter Landscape oil on cardboard 1923 Autumn Scene with Birch Trees gouache on cardboard 25 x 31.8 cm 1923 Bouquets on the Ledge, Paris oil on canvas 74 x 96.5 cm 1923 Trinity Lavra of St Sergius in Winter oil on canvas 85.5 x 109.5 cm 1923 Vineyard in Capri oil on canvas 55 x 70 cm 1924 Autumn Landscape with Birches oil on canvas 1924 Capri oil on canvas 1924 Italian Landscape pastel on paper 34.2 x 25 cm 1924 Trees in Blossom, Werder oil on canvas 65 x 80 cm 1924 Village with Two Figures pastel on parchment 1925 Boats in Amalfi Bay oil on canvas 65 x 81.5 cm 1925 Capri oil on canvas 1925 Flowers oil on panel
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Kонстантин Иванович Горбатов was a Russian post-impressionist painter. Gorbatov was born in the small Volga river town of Stavropol. After initially studying architecture at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, he transferred to the painting department where he studied under Nikolai Dubovskoy and Aleksandr Kiselev..
Kонстантин Иванович Горбатов was a Russian post-impressionist painter. Gorbatov was born in the small Volga river town of Stavropol. After initially studying architecture at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, he transferred to the painting department where he studied under Nikolai Dubovskoy and Aleksandr Kiselev..
Konstantin Gorbatov (Russian, 1876-1945) A Sunny Terrace, 1930 Oil on canvas via birdsong217
