Veniamin Kostitsin

Veniamin Vladimirovich Kostitsin
(Ru: Вениамин Владимирович Костицын)
( * 28. Januar 1949 in Krasnojarsk)
is an Austrian / Russian born artist. His oeuvre incorporates primarily painting, graphics and mixed media.

Veniamin Vladimirovich Kostitsin has enjoyed artistic training since early adolescence. Between 1964 and 1968 Veniamin Kostitsin studied at the "Grekov" Art College in Odessa, Ukraine (formerly USSR). In the years 1972 - 1978 he completed his education at the WGIK (All-Union State Institute for Cinematography) in Moscow, Russia as an art director. However already since 1973 the artist has chosen to pursue an independent path and has participated in a number of exhibitions. Already in 1977 his work was honoured by the Russian Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) for his series "The Russian North" after he was awarded a prize for the series "Old Moscow" in 1975. Between 1975 and 1989 over 20 books for children with illustrations by Veniamin Kostitsin were published, some of them were also translated and published in English, German and other languages. Until 1989 Veniamin Kostitsin also participated in a number of art exhibitions in former Soviet Union with his work purchased by numerous state collections.

Veniamin Kostitsin was born in Krasnojarsk, yet he grew up in Norilsk as his parents relocated. In 1971 he moved to Moscow. In 1973 he married Svetlana Mikhailovna Teterina, an art historian. Their son Veniamin Kostitsin-Teterin is a photographer. [ [http://seen.by/veniamin-kostitsin-teterin Veniamin Kostitsin-Teterin on seen.by] ] Svetlana Teterina, a custodian at Polenovo estate museum of Vasily Polenov at the time introduced her fiance Veniamin Kostitsin to the art circles and the offsprings of the local nobility in Tarusa, Meshchovsk and Polenovo. Tarusa as a family seat of Teterin family has since plaid a significant role in the artistic life ov Veniamin Kostitsin and features prominently in his paintings between 1973 and 1987 a period when he was strongly influenced by Peredvizhniki, as well as being the original background for the fictional landscapes in the illustrations to the literary work of Russian writers of the 19th century.

Since 1990 Veniamin Kostitsin lives and works in Baden bei Wien, Austria.

Books / Illustrations (incomplete)

"Yellow Beak" by Aleksej Tolstoy, Malysh publishing house, 1987. ISBN 5050024935
"Deti Podzemelja" by Vladimir Korolenko
"Stihotvorenija" by Nikolaj Nekrasov
"Dedushka Mazaj i Zajcy" by Nikolaj Nekrasov, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1987
"Novels" by August Strindberg
"Hrabryj Ruchej" by Viktor Banykin, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1988. ISBN 5-268-00665-7
"Zimnyaya Doroga : Poems by Russian authors", Malysh publishing house, 1986.
"Belyj Pudel" by Aleksandr Kuprin, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, 1988. ISBN 5-268-00669-x
et.al.

Collections

The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Misako Sawada Collection, Japan
Kadanka Collection, Austria
Giro Zentrale, Austria

Auction Sales

Dorotheum, Contemporary Art 2007

Dorotheum, Contemporary Art 2008

Exhibitions (incomplete)

1990

Galerie Prisma, Wien
SPK, Baden bei Wien
Hypo Bank, Baden

1991

Galerie Wolfrum, Wien

1992

Satchwell Art Show, Vienna :
El Hombre, Veniamin Kostitsin, Heinz Jonak et.al
SPK Baden

1993

Casino Baden
Hotel Sauerhof, Baden

1994

Schloss Ebreichsdorf
SPK Baden

1995

Hotel Sauerhof, Baden
SPK Baden
Frauenhof, Baden

This article is work in progress. Sources : Family of the artist.

References

* http://www.plos.at/new/home/wb/pages/Kostitsin_JPG.htm
* http://www.dorotheum.at/it/aste/calendario-aste/prossime-aste/kataloge/list-lots-detail/auktion/salzburg-kunst-des-20-jahrhunderts-bilder-und-grafiken/lot/102.html
* http://katalogs.biblioteka.ventspils.lv/alise/alise3i.asp?opty=3&critattr=AUTHOR&critval=%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8B%D0%BD
* http://gazetazp.ru/2003/34/13/