Konstantin Juon (1875 - 1958)

[Евгений]

Konstantin Juon was born (12) October 24, 1875 in Moscow. The fate of strongly favored him - he lived a long life, he was an unusually happy marriage, loved around him, he never had to fight against poverty.

Читать дальше... 

The success came to him very early, and always accompanied him.
In 1892 he enrolled in the Huon MUZHVZ, where he studied with Savitsky, AN Kasatkin, A. Arkhipov, V. Serov. His paintings have been seen by another student shows - the audience they so eagerly bought up the student Huon could take a trip to Russia and Europe.
Subsequently, his paintings were always welcome at various exhibitions. Shortly after graduating from college Huon began teaching and doing it all his life, earning a great appreciation of his pupils, among whom were VI Mukhina, the sculptor-animal painter VA Vatagin etc.
Huon left a lot of work at different levels. He was a painter, schedule, and theater artist. Dabbled in the subject painting, painted portraits of his contemporaries, but his true vocation was landscape painting.
His memory occurred discovery of ancient iconography. Restorers began to clear the icons and found a bright, clean colors. All this influenced the formation of manners Juon. He loved the joy and beauty in nature and life, rather only represents the sun, snow, colorful folk costumes, the monuments of ancient architecture ("Trinity Monastery in Winter, Spring, sunny day", both 1910, "March sun, 1915). Enjoyed great fame, his painting "Domes and swallows. Assumption Cathedral of the Trinity Sergius Lavra (1921).
By historical themes - Revolution and World War II - Huon also valid across the landscape ("Before entering the Kremlin. Nikolsky Gate 2 (15) November 1917", 1926 "parade on Red Square in Moscow on November 7, 1941, 1942).
Among the later works Juon identifies those that are written in Ligacheva village near Moscow, where the artist had a house and where he worked from 1908 to 1958
The artist died on April 11, 1958.