Pavel Dmitrievich Korin

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Korin's image of the canonized Prince Alexander Nevsky on a Soviet postage stamp (1967)

Pavel Korin ( Russian Павел Дмитриевич Корин * June 25 jul. / 7. July  1892 greg. In Palekh , † 22. November 1967 in Moscow ) was a Russian - Soviet painter , member of the Soviet Academy of Arts and winner of the Order of Lenin .

life and work

Korin was born in the central Russian town of Palech as the son of an icon painter who lived there. He grew up there and attended the local art school for icon painting from 1903 to 1907. In 1908 he moved to Moscow , where he initially worked in an icon painting workshop in the Donskoy Monastery . From 1912 to 1916 Korin studied at the Moscow Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture , where he was taught by well-known artists such as Konstantin Korowin and Leonid Pasternak , among others . While still a student, Korin took part in the creation of wall frescoes for church buildings. In 1917 he moved to house number 23 on Arbat Street , where he also had his own workshop until 1934.

In the 1920s, Korin devoted himself to depicting landscapes as well as icon painting; So in 1928 he created the panorama picture Meine Heimat , in which he was inspired by the scenic beauty of his hometown Palech. At about the same time he was working on one of his central works, which, however, remained unfinished - this was a depiction of the procession of the cross at the funeral of Patriarch Tikhon, who died in 1925, called a Requiem . Korin met the well-known writer Maxim Gorki in 1931 and portrayed him in 1932. Korin remained friends with him until Gorki's death in 1936 and, thanks to Gorki's support, was allowed to travel to Italy and practice landscape painting there.

In the later 1930s and 1940s Korin became increasingly active 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 Georgi Zhukov and the artist group Kukryniksy . From 1941 to 1947 Korin worked on the conception of a wall painting for the planned Moscow Palace of the Soviets , which however was never realized.

Korin reached the peak of his artistic career from the 1950s: In 1951, for example, he was commissioned to create wall mosaics for the Moscow Komsomolskaya-Kolzewaja subway station, which was under construction . These ceiling compositions, which are mainly dedicated to the historical Russian national heroes, are still among the most striking features of this splendidly designed underground station, which was awarded the Stalin Prize after its completion . Korin himself received the State Prize of the USSR for the mosaics on Komsomolskaya in 1954 . In 1952 Korin was involved in another subway project, namely the compilation of the decorative glass paintings for the Novoslobodskaya station , which, like Komsomolskaya, is also on the Moscow ring line .

From 1934 until his death, Korin lived and worked on Malaya Pirogovskaya ulitsa near the New Maiden Monastery cemetery . He was buried there in 1967. The artist's museum is now located in the former Korin house on Malaya Pirogovskaya.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://museum.ru/M408

Web links

Commons : Pawel Korin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Korin, Pavel Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Корин, Павел Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Palech
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1967
Place of death Moscow