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Pavel Dmitrievich Korin
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Pavel Dmitrievich Korin was a Russian and Soviet painter, a monumental painter, a master of portraiture, a restorer, and a teacher. He was a People's Artist of the USSR and a recipient of the Lenin and Stalin Prizes (second class). Pavel Dmitrievich was born in the village of Palekh into a family of icon painters. From 1903 to 1907 he studied at an icon-painting school under E.I. Styagov, after which he continued his training at the Moscow icon-painting workshop of the Donskoy Monastery.
In 1911 the painter Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov involved the young icon painter in church decorations. At Nesterov's suggestion, in 1912 Korin enrolled in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His teachers included Konstantin Korovin, Sergey Malyutin, and Leonid Pasternak. After graduating in 1916, at the request of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, he went to Yaroslavl and Rostov to study the frescoes of ancient Russian churches.
In 1927 Korin's watercolor "In the Artist's Studio" was added to the Tretyakov Gallery's collection. During the Great Patriotic War (World War II) he led a team of restorers repairing the ceiling and foyer of the Bolshoi Theatre damaged by bombing. After the war he worked on restoring canvases of the Dresden Gallery, headed the restoration workshop of the A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and took part in the restoration of the frescoes of St. Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv, restoring works by Viktor Vasnetsov and Mikhail Nesterov.
From 1960 to 1964 Korin served as the artistic director of the State Central Art Restoration Workshop (now the I.E. Grabar All-Russian Art Research and Restoration Center) in Moscow, and also taught as a professor at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. Pavel Dmitrievich passed away on November 22, 1967 in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Date of birth
08 July 1892
Date of death
22 November 1967
Occupation
Artist