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Konstantinin Savidge was born in a cramped Limehouse lodging in 1882, the son of immigrants who had brought with them a dress of Russian songs and a stubborn pride in small trades. He was raised on the bench of a newspaper printer, ink under his nails and the clack of type in his ears, learning to read the world in columns and margins. The press taught him rhythm and patience; when the family could scarce buy a proper canvas he mixed pigments from leftover printer inks and ground charcoal into washes on scrap paper. London's coal smoke and the smell of wet wool were as familiar as the parks he would later paint, and the childhood habit of finding light between grime made him attuned to green spaces as breathing places in an overcrowded city. | |||
By 1905 Konstantinin ekes out a living between commissions from the London Parks Bureau and odd jobs — laying types at the press on market mornings, painting signage for shopkeepers, and delivering packages at dusk. His commission paintings are plain and honest: vistas of children's swings, clipped hedgerows, and the formal geometry of municipal flowerbeds, works bought by the Parks Bureau for reports and exhibitions that pay when they pay. At home he keeps a small, bright world of his own: an Asian wife who taught him the comfort of strong tea and careful stitching, and two children who chase sparrows in the yard and trail paint across the floorboards. Prejudice and poverty are constant companions — refusals of work because of his name or the family he keeps, rent that climbs in the spring — but he accepts odd jobs without pride because the strokes of his brush still promise the sort of freedom his parents had fled for, and he paints at night by gaslight while his children sleep. | |||
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Basics Gender: Male Type: Adult Nationality: German Location: Hesse, Germany Language: German Life & Times Age: 30 Birth date: July 20, 1875 (9:38 AM) Physical Height: 185 cm / 6 ft 1 in Weight: 85 kg / 188 lbs Handedness: Right Blood type: A+
Biography
Konstantinin Savidge was born in a cramped Limehouse lodging in 1882, the son of immigrants who had brought with them a dress of Russian songs and a stubborn pride in small trades. He was raised on the bench of a newspaper printer, ink under his nails and the clack of type in his ears, learning to read the world in columns and margins. The press taught him rhythm and patience; when the family could scarce buy a proper canvas he mixed pigments from leftover printer inks and ground charcoal into washes on scrap paper. London's coal smoke and the smell of wet wool were as familiar as the parks he would later paint, and the childhood habit of finding light between grime made him attuned to green spaces as breathing places in an overcrowded city.
By 1905 Konstantinin ekes out a living between commissions from the London Parks Bureau and odd jobs — laying types at the press on market mornings, painting signage for shopkeepers, and delivering packages at dusk. His commission paintings are plain and honest: vistas of children's swings, clipped hedgerows, and the formal geometry of municipal flowerbeds, works bought by the Parks Bureau for reports and exhibitions that pay when they pay. At home he keeps a small, bright world of his own: an Asian wife who taught him the comfort of strong tea and careful stitching, and two children who chase sparrows in the yard and trail paint across the floorboards. Prejudice and poverty are constant companions — refusals of work because of his name or the family he keeps, rent that climbs in the spring — but he accepts odd jobs without pride because the strokes of his brush still promise the sort of freedom his parents had fled for, and he paints at night by gaslight while his children sleep.