1861-1939
Born in Moscow in 1861, comes from the rich peasants Vladimir province. In the house of his father since childhood met many artists and under the influence of his relative, IM. Pryanishnikova, from his early years with his brother Sergei took up painting. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, at Savrasov and Polenova, the latter had a great influence on
Korovin. Long worked in Paris where he exhibited in the Salon "painting" Au petit matin ". In Moscow, wrote the scenery for a private opera with. Mamontov, a part of drafts Polenova and B. Vasnetsov, a part of yourself ( "Street in the village Berendeev" for "Snow Maiden", part of the scenery for "Aida" and "Scarlet Rose"). In the 80's and early 90-ies
Korovin exhibited at the Wanderers, to this period belong his paintings: "Spanish flu at the window," "Lights," "Mistress". When Mamontov, in 1894, fitted out an expedition to study the far north of Russia, took part
Korovin, while considering the nature, life and architecture of the north. For subsequent years include his painting "Winter in Lapland (1894)," On the far north "(1894)," Hammerfest "(Northern Lights) (1898). On behalf of Mamontov,
Korovin took up the device and decoration "North Pavilion" at the All-Russia Exhibition of 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod. The pavilion was built in the style of
Korovin northern wooden structures and served as a prototype for subsequent Russian wooden architecture of the new style. Inside, he was decorated with a number of decorative panels depicting the life and the nature of our north, later transferred to the station building of the Moscow-Yaroslavl railway.
Korovin was assigned the construction of the device and Russian handicrafts department at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 and the decoration of the Siberian and Central Asian Pavilion in the same. The success of the buildings and decorative panels
Korovin was a huge (now these panels in the museum of Alexander III in St. Petersburg). Since 1900,
Korovin is a permanent artist at the Imperial Theaters, and gave a number of theatrical productions surprising richness and strength ( "Don Quixote", . "Swan Lake", . "The daughter of Pharaoh", . "Ruslan and Ludmila", . Il Barbiere di Siviglia, . "Scarlet Flower", . Khovanshchina, . "Sleeping Beauty", . Golden Cockerel, . "Tsar Saltan" and others),
. In 1901, he taught at the Moscow School of painting and at the Stroganov Art School (Moscow). Subtle colorist, an excellent painter,
Korovin was the first Russian artist, who united the painting with architecture. He wrote workshops landscapes, . which reaches a large picturesque impression, but its northern landscapes, . issued his views of Paris, . For example: "Boulevard des Capucines" (1898), . "Cafe de la Paix at night" (1905), . "Boulevard des Italiens at Night" (1909), . a series of "Les feux de Paris" (1913), . as well as the bright southern landscapes and sketches, . For example: "Tatar street at night" (1911), . "Garden in the Mountains" (1911), . "Crimea" (1914) and its interesting nature morte in the day and night scenery,
. They performed some very interesting portraits, for example: Princess Golitsyn (1898) Chaliapin (1912), Ms. P. (1913). He has studied the art industry, giving figures artisan furniture, carvings, majolica, according to his drawings was arranged "Tea Room" at the exhibition "Contemporary Art" (in St. Petersburg, in 1903). Most of the paintings
Korovin - a major private collectors, in the Tretyakov Gallery - Nordic Idyll, . "Failure", . "Winter in Lapland, . "Winter", . Paris boulevard at night ", . "Lilac", . "Girl in the Garden, . "Hammerfest", . "Spanish tavern", . Tatar Crimea Street, and several studies, in Rumyantsev Museum - "Tiflis", . "In the shed", in the museum of Alexander III in St. Petersburg - "Sketches of scenery Siberian pavilion at the exhibition in Paris in 1900 and part of the decorative panels,
. - See. "Moscow gallery P. and C. Tretyakov; AN. Benoit, "Russian School of Painting"; 24 images of works of KA.
Korovin ( "World of Art", 1899, "21 - 22). S. P-va.
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Portfolio
- 5 works to. A. Korovin can be found in the section "Russian Art" on a private page, George Mitrevski (Auburn University, USA).
