Pyotr Konchalovsky

• Born February 21st 1876 in Slavyansk.
• Russian painter, graphic artist.
• Early works were inspired by Cezanne but moved towards Socialist Realism. 
• He studied drawing at an art school in Kharkov, Ukraine, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
• From the Moscow School he gained its predisposition for corporeality and approach to colour.
• He briefly studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, his work melded two very rich traditions of painting.
• In 1909 with Aristarkh Lentulov and Ilya Mashkov he founded the avant garde group "Jack of Diamonds".
• Considered the creator of Russian Cezannism, this style he then merged with first primitivism, cubism and then Venetian painting.

Self Portrait with wife (1928) - Pyotr Konchalovsky

Portait of Vsevolod Meyerhold (1938) - Pyotr Konchalovsky.