Zefirov Konstantin

Biography

KONSTANTIN ZEFIROV (1879, Samara region – 1960, Moscow). An outstanding Russian artist Zefirov studied under K. Voronov in Samara, at E. Schreider’s studio in Kharkov (1902-05), at Simon Hollósy’s school in Munich (1906-09), and at K. Kish’s workshop in Moscow (1909). He was a member of artist associations such as the "Makovets" group (1921-1927), the Society of Realist Artists – OKhR (1927-30), the Moscow Artists’ Society - OMKh (1928-30). From 1915 to 1920 the artist lived in Tambov, where he decorated streets and buildings for the first anniversary of the 1917 revolution. He taught at the Worker’s Faculty of Arts (1923-30), the Moscow School of Arts (1932-35), the Moscow Art Institute (1936-41), and the State Institute of Dramatic Arts – GITIS (1943). First exhibited in 1922, Zefirov participated in exhibitions in Amsterdam (1929), New York (1929), and Berlin (1930). He had his one-man shows in Moscow in 1929, 1935, 1961, 1984, and 2011. The artist’s works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin, in museum collections in Yaroslavl, Saratov, Irkutsk, and so on.