Konstantin Korovin ( 1861-1939)
At a Tea Table, 1888
Verwissel de samovar met een paar flessen wijn en een mand baguettes en je denkt dat het een schilderij van Renoir is.
In 1875
Konstantin Korovin entered the
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpturing and Architecture, where he learned from
Vasily Perov and
Alexei Savrasov. His brother,
Sergey was already a student of the School. During their scholar years
Korovins became friends with their fellow students
Valentin Serov and
Isaac Levitan, Kontantin kept these friendship through the whole of his life.
In 1881-1882,
Korovin spent a year at the
Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, but returned disappointed to the
Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. He studied at the school under the new teacher
Vasily Polenov until 1886. In 1885,
Korovin made traveled to
Paris and
Spain. Paris was a shock for me Impressionists in them I found everything for what I was scolded back at home, in
Moscow, he later wrote.
Korovin.
Polenov introduced
Korovin to
Savva Mamontov’s Abramtsevo circle:
Viktor Vasnetsov, Apollinary Vasnetsov, Ilya Repin, Mark Antokolsky and others. The Abramtsevo circle’s love for stilized Russian themes is reflected in
Korovin’s picture A Northern Idyll. In 1885
Korovin works for
Mamontov’s Opera house. He designed the stage decor for
Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, Léo Delibes’ Lakme and
Georges Bizet’s Carmen.
St. Triphon’s Brook in Pechenga, 1894
He was painting in the
Impressionist and later in the
Art Nouveau style. In the 1890s,
Korovin became a member of the
Mir iskusstva art group. Korovin’s subsequent works was strongly influenced by his travel to the North. In 1888 he was captivated by the stern northern landscapes, as seen in The Coast of Norway and The Northern Sea. His second trip to the North, with
Valentin Serov in 1894, coincided with the construction of the Northern Railway. Korovin painted a large number of landscapes:
Norwegian Port, Saint Trifon’s Brook in
Pechenega, Hammerfest: Aurora Borealis, The Coast at Murmansk and others. The paintings are built on a delicate web of shades of grey. The etude style of these works was typical for the
Korovin’s art of the 1890s. Using material from his northern trip,
Korovin designed the Northern Railway pavilion at the
All Russia Exhibition of 1896 at
Nizhny Novgorod. In 1900, Korovin designed the Central Asia section of the Russian Empire pavilion on the
Paris World Fair; and was awarded the
Legion of Honour by the French government.
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