Background
Savitsky"s family lived in the building of the Taganrog Gymnasium for Boys, where his father worked as a doctor.
Savitsky"s family lived in the building of the Taganrog Gymnasium for Boys, where his father worked as a doctor.
There Savitsky entered a private boarding-school and in 1862 he graduated and left for Saint St. Petersburg, where he entered The Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint St. Petersburg.
Today this area is occupied by the Taganrog Iron and Steel Factory TAGMET. In Frankovka the family rented a summer house. Savitsky spent his childhood and youth in Taganrog. He showed an interest for painting in early childhood.
When Konstantin was fifth-grader at Taganrog Gymnasium, his teenager"s life changed unexpectedly.
Personal contacts with outstanding representatives of Russian culture - Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Mark Antokolski, Stasov, Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin - made a great influence on development of the young artist. Soon Savitsky became one of the best students of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
The artwork "Repairing Railway" was one of the first paintings of that time dedicated to the life of the working class. Konstantin Savitsky is a co-author of the famous painting Morning in the Pine Forest.
On the original Peredvizhniki exhibition the painting was shown by two authors Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky.
lieutenant was assumed that Savitsky had painted the bears and Shishkin the forest but later the scholars found that preparational drawings of the pine forest were made by both Savitsky and Shishkin. Later Savitsky withdrew his signature from the painting and it is currently attributed solely to Shishkin. The titles of his artworks as "Lost all their possessions in the fire", "To war", "Herdsmen", "Krutchnik", "Argument at the Bound" speak about the direction of his art
After graduation from the Imperial Academy of Arts the artist dedicated more than 20 years to teaching arts in the art schools of Moscow, Saint St. Petersburg and Penza.
In 1897 Konstantin Savitsky became a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.