George Costakis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Costakis

Collector of Russia art

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1913

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 09-Mar-1990

Profession: collecting, art collector

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

George Costakis (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ???????, Greek: Ge?????? ??st????, 5 July 1913 - 1990) was a collector of Russian art whose collection became the most representative body of Modern Russian avant-garde art anywhere.
In the years surrounding the 1917 revolution, artists in Russia produced the first non-figurative art, which was to become the defining art of the 20th century.
Costakis by chance discovered some constructivist paintings in a Moscow studio in 1946, and he went on to search for the revolutionary art which might otherwise have been lost to the world.