Background
Konstantin Konstantinovich Kuznetsov was born on April 16, 1895 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation in the family of the headmaster.
Konstantin Konstantinovich Kuznetsov was born on April 16, 1895 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation in the family of the headmaster.
Konstantin Konstantinovich participated in world war I with the rank of officer. During the Civil war, after the execution of his father by the Bolsheviks, fled to the South of Russia, where he joined the Volunteer army. At the end of 1920, he evacuated with its parts from the Crimea to the state of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs. For some time Konstantin Konstantinovich lived in the town of Pancevo near Belgrade, where he attended painting and drawing courses. Subsequently, he began to study book graphics, created cartoons and posters: one of his works was the design of trade posters in the MATIC Department store in Belgrade.
Konstantin Konstantinovich worked in the field of book illustration, caricature, poster. Author of many comics of the mystical adventure genre. He created a number of them based on the works of "Hadji Murad" of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1937-1938), "The Night Before Christmas" by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1940), "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1940).
Around 1950, Konstantin Konstantinovich moved to the United States. In 1970, the book "The Christianization of Russia" was published in Canada with illustrations by Kuznetsov. Konstantin Kuznetsov gained wide European fame as the author of comics. In 1937, he published his first comic called "Mother", and at that time he draws a Comedy strip about two monkeys in the style of Walt Disney "Bohemians".
In total for 1937-1941 executed 26 comics for the Belgrade magazine "Mika Mish" ("Mickey Mouse") which were let out by the owner of printing house "Rus", the Russian immigrant Alexander Ivkovich. In 1940-1941, published in the journal "Politikin zabavník" comic "Peter the Great" and the comic book of the tales of Pushkin "the Tale of Tsar Saltan" and "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel", which was influenced by the style graphic book Ivan Bilibin.
During the war, continues to draw mostly military cartoons and posters some of which are implemented in the form of comics. In 1944, the pages of "Mali Zabavnik" published several works, of which the most interesting is the "Tale of the unfortunate king."
In the autumn of 1944, for fear of persecution by the Soviet authorities, and fled from Yugoslavia to Austria. In 1946 he lived in the outskirts of Munich, where he painted the cover of the magazine " Lights "(№1 1946), the cover and three illustrations for the book Of Black" Donkey tormaz "(Munich, 1946), drew cartoons for the magazine"Petrushka".
Konstantin Konstantinovich left for the USA around 1950. There he continued to work as an Illustrator, painted easel paintings, icons, performed watercolors on Russian themes for Christmas cards and calendars of the New York publisher Martianov. He collaborated with the Studio Cathedral Films, for which he painted about 1500 illustrations on Christian motifs.