(Toljatti 1876–1945 Berlin)
“Der weiße Weg” (The white path), titled on the reverse, signed in cyrillic writing K. Gorbatov, dated 1925, watercolour, white gouache on cardbourd, 33 x 39 cm, framed, a label of the art shop Erich Bretschneider, Leipzig, the name of the artist, the title of the sheet and the date on the reverse, (Hu)

We are grateful to Dr. Olga Sugrobova-Roth for the scientific support.

The work will be added to the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work which is being prepared by Eckart Lingenauber und Olga Sugrobova-Roth.

Konstantin Gorbatov lived in Riga from 1896 to 1903 and studied civil engineering. In 1904 he moved to Saint Petersburg and studied at the central school for technical drawing and at the art academy architecture and painting under the landscape painter Nikolai Dubowskoi. Gorbatov received a stipend and could travel to Rome and Capri where he continued his studies. In the course of the Russian Revolution he emigrated to Capri; in 1926 he went to Berlin, where he joined intellectual circles of Russian emigrants. At that time Gorbatov travelled a lot and visited Palestine, Syria, Capri, Venice, Finland and London. After the outbreak of World War II he was not allowed to leave the country because he was a Soviet citizen.

Константин Иванович Горбатов
(Ставрополь Самарской губ., 1876 – 1945, Берлин)
Снежный путь. Подпись и дата слева внизу: К. Горбатовъ 1925. Картон, акварель, белила. 33 х 39 см. На защитном картоне с этикеткой художественного магазина Erich Bretschneider (Лейпциг) имя художника, название произведения и дата на немецком языке.

Произведение включено в базу данных готовящегося каталога-резоне «Константин Горбатов» (Э. Лингенаубер и О. Сугробова-Рот).