Kurzin Mikhail Ivanovich
1888-1957 Mikhail Ivanovich Kurzin was born in 1888 in Barnaul. Art education has received in the Kazan school. In 1908 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the class K. Korovin. In 1916 he was mobilized to the front. At the end of the war has become an active member of the Altai Art Society in Barnaul. In 1919 the artist traveled to China for the return of which were implemented in the technique of a series of works avtotrafareta Chinese Theater. "In the early 1920's Kurzin taught in VHUTEMAS technology materials, and also worked with Mayakovsky in the windows ROSTAF.Imenno he taught GROWTH taehnike avtotrafareta. In 1923, the artist goes on a long journey through the cities of Crimea, the Caucasus and Central Asia, which will be completed in 1926 in Tashkent. In 1927 Kurzin is a creative group "Masters of New East", and in 1929 became chairman of the Association of Fine Arts workers in Tashkent. Those who worked closely with Kurzin, often became the object of his harsh public statements, the wizard does not recognize trade-offs. Not surprisingly, he was the first unification of the "Masters of New East" was arrested in 1936 and exiled to Siberia, where was unable to work. After his release in 1946, Mikhail Kurzin was sent to exile in Bokhara, without the right to visit Tashkent. The same, in 1946 he was taken to the Union of Soviet Artists of Uzbekistan, but two years later was arrested and exiled to Siberia for eight years. The pretext for his arrest this time was the unauthorized arrival of the artist in Tashkent. Mikhail Ivanovich Kurzin died May 1, 1957.
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In 1904-1907 he studied at the Kazan Art School, in 1908 - at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1910 to 1912 was a student at a private studio M. Bernstein in St. Petersburg. Autumn of 1919, traveled to China. In 1921, he taught in the Higher Art. In 1922, together with Kurzin Korovay left in the Crimea in Simferopol, where in 1923 he moved to Tashkent. In Tashkent, worked in opera and ballet theater, newspapers, taught. In 1927 Kurzin co-organized group of artists "Masters of New East." In 1936 Kurzina arrested and sentenced to 5 years 'imprisonment and three years' disqualification. Kurzina accused of hostile to the Soviet power, the utterance of terrorist intentions against Stalin, antisovestkoy agitation. The works of the artist recognized "formalistic" distorting Soviet reality, the artist deliberately portrays Soviet man ugly. Penalty artist served in Kolyma. In late 1945 Kurzin arrived in Bukhara. In 1948, for unauthorized travel to Tashkent Kurzina arrested again by presenting the same accusation of anti-Soviet activities and deported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In 1957 Kurzin died.
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