Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky was a Russian genre painter, an academician, the father and mentor of battle-painter Georgy Savitsky, a friend of landscape painter Ivan Shishkin, and a co-author of the famous painting 'Morning in a Pine Forest'. The future artist was orphaned early and spent his childhood in Taganrog. His relatives placed him in a private boarding house attached to the Livonian Noble Gymnasium, after graduating from which Savitsky entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in the class of historical painting.
In 1871, for his composition 'Cain and Abel' he was awarded the small gold medal, was granted a scholarship by Emperor Alexander II and continued his studies abroad. After attending the art academies of Dresden and Düsseldorf, he lived and worked in Paris, where he took an interest in metal engraving.
After moving to Moscow he became a teacher at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and from 1894 he headed the life-drawing class. In 1895 he became a full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, and in 1897, 'for his renown in the artistic field', he received the title of Academician of Painting. Savitsky became the first director of the newly established art gallery and the N.D. Seliverstov Art School in Penza, which in 1898 came under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Academy of Arts and the Ministry of the Imperial Court. The artist personally developed the curriculum and made alterations to the building's layout. The best graduates of the School were admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts without examinations. The artist remained director of the Penza school until his last days; he died at the age of 60.
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