Konstantin Pervukhin

Painter, teacher. Elder brother of the writer Mikhail Pervukhin (1870–1928). Born in the family of Konstantin Pervukhin in Kharkiv (1863). Studied under Bezperchy and at the Rayevskaya-Ivanova School of Drawing in Kharkiv (early 1880s) and at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1886). Painted Impressionist landscapes of the Crimea (1890s) and Venice (1912–14). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1899), founding member of the Union of Russian Artists (1903). Taught at the Stroganov School (1902–15). Died in Moscow (1915). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1887). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1887–1903), Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1892, 1893), Imperial Society of Russian Watercolour Painters (1895), 36 Artists (1901, 1902), Union of Russian Artists (1903–16), Pan-Russian Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod (1896), Exposition Universelle in Paris (1900) and the international exhibitions in Munich (1909) and Venice (1914).