Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky

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Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky Lagerkrans (born January 18, 1903 in St. Petersburg , † November 22, 1999 in Stockholm ) was a Russian-Swedish artist.

Life

Zoia Lagerkrans attended the Smolny-Institut girls' school in St. Petersburg and grew up near the Russian court and at that time still had many memories of Tsar Nicholas II. After the Russian Revolution, the family was forced to move to Moscow. There she started her studies at the Art Academy in Moscow. She was a student of Wassily Kandinsky . In 1922 she married the Swedish communist politician Karl Kilbom (1885–1961) and left Russia with him. On January 3, 1938, she married the Swedish architect Gunnar Lagerkrans (1898–1980).

Zoia Lagerkran's styles were 13th century Italian religious art, Dutch flower painting, and East Asian classic painting and varnish work. They painted walls and their most famous motifs were flowers and cityscapes, including Russian churches based on gold leaf and gesso .

It was not the Russian icon painting that inspired her, but the Japanese-French artist Tsuguharu Foujita (1886–1968). She had private lessons with him in Paris. There Zoia Lagerkrans (1925–1930) began studying at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière , where she also took lessons from Fernand Léger . In Paris she was close friends with the Norwegian painter Per Krohg (1889-1965) and Nils von Dardel , a Swedish painter and artist (1888-1943). Her portraits made Zoia Lagerkrans famous. Their models included u. a. the Iranian Empress Farah Pahlavi , King Hassan of Morocco , Leonid Brezhnev , Queen Silvia of Sweden and the members of the Wallenberg family .

Works and exhibitions

  • Solo exhibition at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris in 1929
  • Sunflowers , oil on gold,

literature

  • Philip Sington: Zoia's gold: a novel , Verlag Scribner, 2006, ISBN 0743291107 , (The novel mixes actual events from Korvin-Krukovsky's life with fictional elements)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-12-03/entertainment/0612020025_1_richard-stark-parker-tony-hillerman/2
  2. ↑ http://www.lexikonettamanda.se/show.php?aid=20689
  3. ↑ http://www.philipsington.com/Sunflowers2.jpg
  4. ↑ http://zoia.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/
personal data
SURNAME Korvin-Krukovsky, Zoia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Storage crane, Zoia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1999
Place of death Stockholm