Born October 24, Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon

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Konstantin Yuon

Russian and Soviet painter
October 24, 1875 - April 11, 1958

Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon 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 around like him, he never had to deal with distress.

Success came to him very early, and always accompanied him. After the revolution, honors, high honors, titles, looking for his leadership positions themselves.

Adversity was less - it's spat over several years with his father (an employee of the bank) because of a peasant wedding Juon and early death of one of his sons.

In 1892 he enrolled in the Huon MUZHVZ, where he studied with Savitsky, N. Kasatkina, A. Arkhipov, V. Serov. His paintings have been seen by another student shows - bought up their audience so readily, that the student was able to take a trip Huon in Russia and Europe.

Later, his paintings were always welcome at various exhibitions. Shortly after graduating from college Yuon started teaching and doing it all his life, earning a great appreciation of his pupils, among whom were VI Mukhin, VA, animal sculptor Vatagin and others.

Huon left a lot of work at different levels. He was a painter, stage designer and schedule. Dabbled in the subject painting, painted portraits of his contemporaries, but his mission was a true landscape painting.

His memory was the discovery of ancient iconography. The restorers have become clear icons, and found bright, clean colors. All this has contributed to the formation of manners Juon. He loved the joy and beauty of nature and life, most readily depicted the sun, snow, bright folk costumes, the monuments of ancient architecture ("Trinity Monastery in winter", "Spring sunny day," both 1910, "The March Sun", 1915). Great famous is his painting "The Dome and swallows. Cathedral of the Assumption Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra "(1921).
By historical themes - Revolution and World War II - Huon also fits across the landscape ("Before he enter on 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 the countryside Ligachev near Moscow, where the artist had a house and where he worked from 1908 to 1958.

Died artist Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon April 11, 1958.