Kostinsky Petr Ivanovich

Soviet painter. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1939 he graduated from the Rostov-on-Don Art School. In 1940 he entered the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His studies were interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. After graduating from the Institute in 1950, he came to Moscow and joined the Moscow Union of Artists. Participant of numerous all-Union, republican, Moscow and foreign exhibitions. A personal exhibition took place in 2001 in Moscow. Paintings by P.I. Kostinsky were exhibited and purchased in Japan, Canada, Italy, USA, Germany, France, England, and South Korea. The famous American pianist Van Cliburn acquired several paintings by the artist for his own collection.