Korovin Konstantin Alekseevich (1861-1939) - Russian painting (300 works)

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Korovin Konstantin Alekseevich - painter, decorator, one of the largest Russian artists of the turn of the century; consistently embodied the principles of impressionism in painting, a master of the plein air. Author of landscapes, genre paintings, portraits, still lifes.

Born in Moscow on November 23 (December 5), 1861 in the family of an Old Believer merchant. He received his artistic education at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1875-1886) (under the guidance of A.K. Savrasov and V.D. Polenov) and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1882). Traveled a lot (Caucasus, Crimea, northern Russia, Central Asia, Western Europe). He was a member of the World of Art and the Union of Russian Artists associations.

In the early paintings of the master, features of symbolism and modernism appear ("At the balcony. Spanish women Leonora and Ampara"; "Northern Idyll"; both works 1886). Over the years, colorful improvisations, a dynamically mobile, sensual play of brushstrokes, equally characteristic of landscapes (northern, Parisian, Central Russian, Crimean motifs), still lifes (typical Korovin “roses”) and portraits (“F.I. Shalyapin", 1911, Russian Russian Museum).

The organic sense of the world as a colorful performance found expression in his design projects (pavilions at the All-Russian Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod, 1896, the World Exhibition in Paris, 1900) and theatrical works (for the Mariinsky and Alexandrinsky theaters in St. Petersburg, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow; 1901-1911 ). He also established himself as an outstanding teacher (in 1901-1919 he taught at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and at the Free Art Workshops).

Having gone abroad in 1923, he settled in Paris. He worked actively as a painter and set designer. In emigration, his talent as a writer-memoir flourished (usually published in the newspaper "Vozrozhdenie").

Korovin died in Paris on September 11, 1939.