Background
Konstantin Bogaevsky was born in the Eastern Crimean city of Feodosia to an old Italian-German family of the Genoese extraction on 24 January 1872.
In 1891-1897 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the class of Arkhip Kuindzhi.
Konstantin Bogaevsky was born in the Eastern Crimean city of Feodosia to an old Italian-German family of the Genoese extraction on 24 January 1872.
Konstantin took first lessons in art from Ivan Aivazovsky. In 1891-1897 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the class of Arkhip Kuindzhi. The art of young Konstantin was not popular with the Academy and he was even at some stage temporarily discharged from the Academy for "lack of talent". Despite this, Kuindzhi always had a high respect for his pupil and protected him. In 1898 Konstantin traveled to Italy and France where he became acquainted with works of Claude Lorrain, whom he proclaimed as his true teacher.
His first exhibition was in Moscow in 1898.
Since 1900 Bogaevsky worked in Feodosia. The main theme of his works became the symbolist landscapes of a non-existent land (known to his friends as Bogaevia) that he saw only in his dreams. Konstantin Bogaevsky became a popular painter after Maximilian Voloshin published a series of essays titled Konstantin Bogaevsky. Voloshin highly praised the symbolism of Bogaevsky's paintings. Contemporaries often drew parallel between Bogaevsky and Nicholas Roerich.
In 1906 he exhibited his paintings on Exposition de l'Art Russe organized by Sergei Diaghilev. In 1911 he visited Italy and discovered for himself the paintings of Andrea Mantegna, they were to strongly influence Bogaevsky's own later work.
Bogaevsky returned in 1912 to Feodosia where he was to remain for the rest of his life. He maintained a friendship of many years with another famous Feodosian and a bard of a non-existent land Alexander Grin, as well as with the Koktebel group of Russian Intelligentsia including Maximilian Voloshin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam.
After the October Revolution Bogaevsky retreated into relative obscurity, although works such as the 1932 Port of an Imaginable City were highly regarded as art in the school of Socialist Realism painting of the DnieproGES.
He died at Feodosia on 17 February 1943.
Hermes
Trees
View of the Tarusa surroundings
Devil's finger
Sugdayya
Romantic landscape
Autumn evening
Cimmerian region
Evening at the sea
Landscape with rocks. Stary Krym.
Atlantis
Landscape with trees
Corona Astralis
Palm trees
Sudak motif
View of Sudak's environs
Old town
Romantic landscape
The industrial landscape
Walls and towers of Soldai
Genoese fortress
Woodland scene near Tarusa
Frontispiece
A cloud
Trees in Baran-Eli
Composition
Flow. Fantastic landscape.
Feodosia
Star the Wormwood
Crimean Campagna
The old bathhouses in Karasubazar
Port of imaginary city
Clock towers of Alupka Palace
Evening landscape
The Crimean landscape
Landscape with waterfall and bridge
Kaffa (Old Feodosia)
Memories of Mantegna
Alupka Park
Morning. Pink gobelin.
Old Harbor
Fortress on the seashore
View Of the ancient Greek Acropolis
Landscape with lake
Memories of Mantegna
Rocky seashore
Romantic landscape
Gates in the tower
Mountain landscape
The star
Altars in the desert
Evening sun
Trees
Acropolis
Rainbow
The Baku oil fields
View of Sudak
Feodosia at winter
The sun
Birch Grove
After the rain
Panorama of construction of Dnieper Hydroelectric Station
Eastern altar
Towers of Feodosiya
Sketch for a mural 'Crimea'
Mariupol port and plant
Still life
Star light
Landscape with tall trees
Classical Landscape
Landscape
Seashore
Rocky seashore
Landscape with castle
Ships
Ancient town
Imaginary town. Rainbow.
Woodland scene
Tropical landscape
Last Rays
Morning
Old trunk
Night at the seaside
Desert. Tale.
Romantic landscape. On the seashore.
Landscape with trees
Night
Çufut Qale
Landscape
Landscape with oaks and willows
Cimmerian twilight
Ruins of an old temple
A cloud
The village Kozy
Stary Krym
Mountain landscape with sea bay
Feodosia
The Crimean landscape
Italian Landscape
Ruins of a temple
Romantic landscape (Crimean landscape)
Romantic landscape
Mountain landscape
Bibi-Heybat
Koktebel. House of Maximilian Voloshin.
Consular tower in Sudak
Altars
Memories of Mantegna
Ancient fortress
Landscape. Sun.
Baku. Oil rigs.
The industrial building
Valley
View of Sudak
Stars
Study of boats and cows
Dnieprostroy
Ancient land
Mount St. George
Southern Land. Cave Town.
Landscape
Estate in Kenegeze
The Crimean landscape
Mountain landscape with trees. Ortolan.
The Crimean landscape
Mountain landscape
Town in the valley
Stary Krym
Mill near the forest creek
The setting sun
Feodosia
Romantic landscape
The desert
Bogaevsky was member of Mir iskusstva, Union of Russian Artists and the Zhar-Tsvet.
Bogaevsky was a closed, conscientious, peaceful and extremely naive person.
Konstantin was married to Josephine Gustavovna Bogayevskaya.