Pavel Korin
Pavel Dmitrievich Korin (Russian Павел Дмитриевич Корин; * 25 Junijul / July 7 1892greg in Palekh, .. † November 22, 1967 in Moscow) was a Russian Soviet painter, member of the Soviet Academy of Arts and winner of the Lenin Order.
Life and work
Korin was born in the central Russian village of Palekh, the son of icon painter based there. He grew up there and attended from 1903 to 1907 the art school of icon painting. In 1908 he moved to Moscow, where he worked initially in an icon painting workshop of the Donskoi Monastery. From 1912 to 1916 Korin studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he was instructed by famous artists such as Konstantin Korovin and Leonid Pasternak. While still a student himself Korin involved in the production of frescoes for churches. In 1917, he moved into the house No. 23 on the Arbat Street, where he also had his own workshop until 1934.
In the 1920s, devoted Korin next to the icon-painting and landscape pictures; so he created in 1928 the panoramic picture My home, where he was inspired by the natural beauty of his hometown of Palekh. At about the same time he worked on one of his key works, but which remained unfinished - in this case it was a picture of Requiem called Cross procession at the funeral of Patriarch Tikhon died in 1925. 1931 Korin learned the famous writer Maxim Gorky know and portrayed him in 1932. Up to Gorky's death in 1936 Korin remained friends with him and was allowed to travel to Italy and there practicing landscape painting, among other things, thanks to support of Maxim Gorky.
In the later 1930s and in the 1940s to Korin operated increasingly as a portrait painter and created images of several well-known artists, including the painter Mikhail Nesterov, the writer Alexei Tolstoy, the composer Konstantin Igumnov, the war Marshal Georgy Zhukov and the artist group Kukryniksy. 1941-1947 Korin worked on the design of a wall painting for the planned Moscow Palace of Soviets, which was never realized.
At the peak of his career came Korin from the 1950s: in 1951, he received an order to create wall mosaics for which under construction Moscow metro station Komsomolskaya Koltsevaya. These blankets compositions that are devoted mainly to historical Russian national heroes are also still one of the most striking features of this magnificently designed subway station, which was awarded after its completion with the Stalin Prize. Korin himself was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for the mosaics on the Komsomolskaya 1954. 1952 Korin was involved in another metro project, namely. In the compilation of decorative stained glass of the station Novoslobodskaya, like Komsomolskaya also lies at the Moscow Ring line
From 1934 lived until his death and Korin worked on Malaya Pirogowskaja Ulitsa near the Novodevichy Cemetery. He was also buried in 1967. In the former Korin House at Malaya Pirogowskaja now houses a museum of the artist.