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Pyotr Konchalovsky (Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Template:Lang-ru) (February 21 1876 - February 2, 1956), Russian Painter, a member of Jack of Diamonds group.
Pyotr was born in the village of Slavianka, Kharkov gubernia (currently Ukraine) on February 21 1876. His father was an art publisher. In 1889 Konchalovskies moved to Moscow and their house became a part of the Moscow art scene of 1890ies. Their house was oft ten visited by Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Surikov. Later Pyotr married a daughter of Vasily Surikov, who always praised the art of his son-in-law.
During his gymnasium years Konchalovsky attended classes of Moscow Art School. In 1896-1898 he traveled to Paris and studied at the Juliet Academy. In 1899 he returned to Russia and entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, that he graduated from in 1907. At the Academy studied from Savinsky, Zaleman and Kovalevsky.
Since 1909 he exhibits a lot, he participated in the Golden Fleece, Fraternity, Mir Iskusstva, New Society of Artists. He was a founding member of the society Jack of Diamonds (since 1909). Since 1918 he teaches art. In 1922 there was his first personal exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery.
At that period he mostly draws still lives and landscape. His paintings as off all other Jacks of Diamond were strongly influenced by Paul Cézanne. Later he started to paint portraits (often Parade Portraits) that were considered as the examples of Socialist Realism style.
Pyotr Konchalovsky was a very prolific painter, it is known more than five thousand works of him. Many Konchalovsky's descendants are people of art. He has a son (Mikhail) and a daughter (Natalia). Mikhail (Mikhail Petrovich Konchalovsky b. 1906) was a notable painter. Natalia (Natalia Konchalovsky 1903-1988) was a notable children writer. Her husband Sergei Mikhalkov was a notable poet, the author of children poetry and two versions of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union and the present National Anthem of Russia. Their son (grandson of Pyotr) Andrei Konchalovsky is a world-renown film writer, director and a painter. His son (Egor Konchalvsky. great-grandson of Pyotr) is also a notable film director.
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