Korovin Konstantin Alekseevich

Painter, theater designer. Academician of the Emperor’s Academy of Arts (since 1905). Member of the MOLH (since 1889), ‘Mir Iskusstva’ (World of the Art) Association since 1910, and Association of Russian painters (since 1903). Studied in Moscow at the Moscow Institute of Painting, sculpture and Architecture (1875-1880, 1882-1886) under E.S. Sorokin, V,G. Perov, I.M. Prianishnikov, A.K. Savrasov and V.D. Polenov; in Saint-Petersburg at the Emperor’s Academy of Arts (1881). In 1885 – participant of Abramtsevo Arts Circle. In 1887 visited Paris, in 1889 traveled by Italy and Spain. In 1894 made a trip to the Russian North, Sweden and Norway. Since 1885 – designer of the Russian Private Opera of S.I. Mamontov, since 1910 – chief designer and consulting artist of the Emperor Theaters in Moscow. Since 1889 – participant of the Mobile Art Expositions Fellowship. Teaching at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1910-1918). Left for Paris in 1923. In 1920-30 th was engaged in the performances designing for the theaters of Europe and America. Personal exhibitions held in Moscow (1921, 1923, 1941, 1987), Berlin (1921, 1923). Paris (1925, 1932), Kiev (1961), Leningrad (1963, 1986-1987). The artist’s works are kept at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum and in other leading Museums of the World.