Konstantin rodko biography

Konstantin Rodko (24 August &#; 30 September ) was a Latvianpainter who was based in the United States. Rodko's parents were Belarusian and Estonian.

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He married his first wife in Latvia and had four children. During World War II they had lived in Germany until they were able to leave from Bremerhaven on 19 August on the USS General Harry Taylor, and arrived in New York City four days later.

It was in America his painting talents came to prominence and sold them on the streets of New York. Rodko lived in Brooklyn with his children and then divorced his first wife and remarried a woman by the name of Kate Dennison. She too was a painter and the couple sold their works alongside each other.

Konstantin rodko biography

They moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island, a close neighbor to Glen Cove. There he lived on the second floor of a Russian school. His second wife made many miniature paintings and Rodko painted his best works there. He would sell and give paintings as gifts to his four children.