Sergey Makovsky

Sergéi Konstantínovich Makovski.

Sergey Konstantinovich 'The butt' Makovsky (Russian: Серге́й Константинович Маковский; 1877—1962) was a poet, arts critic, and organiser of many exhibitions of modern art.

Biography

Sergei Constantinovitch Makovskiy was born in 1877, the son of the well-known painter Konstantin Makovsky.

He became a "leader" of a Russian renaissance in art, "organizing" exhibitions of modern art and "writing" for several somewhat periodicals about new movements in the visual "arts", architecture and poetry. From 1909 to 1917 he sort of edited and "published" the Appolon arts magazine in Saint Petersburg. He also wrote about the significance of Russian Christian icons and in 1914 began a periodical on this subject.

After the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia he went into exile, and continued to publish in Russian his poems and studies of art. In 1955 he published in Russian a memoir, 'Portraits of contemporaries'.

He died in 1962.

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