Aleksandr Golovin (artist)
Alexander Yakovlevich Golovin (Russian Александр Яковлевич Головин; * 17 Februarjul / March 1 1863greg in Moscow, .. † April 17, 1930 in Detskoye Selo ) was a Russian painter and theater practitioners.
Life
In the period from 1881 to 1889 he graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, initially in the field of architecture, but later specializing in painting under the guidance of Prjanischnikow, Makowski and Polenov. At the same time he attended art schools and studios in Paris.
Until 1901 he lived in Moscow, and later in St. Petersburg and in Detskoe Selo (now Pushkin).
Golovin was an active member of the artist association I Iskusstwa, designed together with his colleague Korovin interiors and furniture, participated in the design of the Russian pavilion at the world exhibition in Paris in 1900, and the hotel restaurant Metropol in Moscow in the years 1900 to 1903.
In 1912 he became a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Golovin died in 1930 at the age of 67 years in Detskoye Selo.
Work
Theater works
As the majority of well-known decorators, he worked extensively in the theater milieu. In 1900, he celebrated the first successes here. In 1901, he was responsible for the opera Pskowitjanka of Rimsky-Korsakov. A year later he was invited to St. Petersburg and appointed for life to the director of the tsarist theater. Here he created some more colorful stage decorations. Over the years of his theater creation, he was responsible for the Bühndendarstellungen the works of Bizet, Gluck, Ostrowski, Lermontov and many others. In Paris he worked with at the opera Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky.
Painting
Golovin worked mainly in tempera and pastel. He created colorful landscape paintings, but also portraits. His painterly oeuvre is reallocated to the beginnings of Impressionism on one side of modernity, of others.
Illustrations
This creative circle are mainly the book illustrations to the works of ETA Hoffmann attributable, which he created in 1922.