Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon(October 12, 1875 - April 11, 1958) - Russian artist, graphic artist, stage designer.

Born on 12 (24) October 1875 in Moscow in a Swiss-German family. Father - an employee of an insurance company, later - its director; mother is an amateur musician.

Landscape painter, author of portraits, genre paintings. Konstantin Yuon is a representative of symbolism and modernity, who organically continued these traditions in the Soviet era.

The painting style of Konstantin Yuon was influenced by the lessons of Kostantin Korovin and Valentin Serov. Konstantin Yuon took part in exhibitions of the Moscow Association of Artists (1899, 1902), the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (1900), "World of Art" (1901, 1906). From 1903 he was a permanent exhibitor of the Union of Russian Artists, from 1904 he was a member of the “Union” Committee. Konstantin Yuon worked primarily as a landscape painter, gaining "wide popularity" among the Moscow and St. Petersburg public. In the late 1900s - early 1910s he designed opera productions of S. Diaghilev's Russian Seasons in Paris.

After the revolution, Konstantin Yuon was one of the initiators of the creation of schools of fine arts at the Moscow branch of public education. In 1920 he received the first prize for the project of the curtain for the Bolshoi Theater. In 1921 he was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Since 1925 - a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. In 1938-1939 he headed a personal workshop at the All-Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad. In 1940 he made sketches for the mosaic decoration of the Palace of the Soviets. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize, in 1947 he was elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. From 1943 to 1948 Konstantin Yuon worked as the chief artist of the Maly Theater. In 1950 he was awarded the title "People's Artist". In 1948-1950 he headed the Research Institute of History and Theory of Fine Arts of the USSR Academy of Arts. Doctor of Art History. In 1952-1955 he taught at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikova, professor. Since 1957 - First Secretary of the Board of the Union of Artists of the USSR.

After the revolution, the artist's individual style has changed little, the circle of subjects has become somewhat different. In the 1920s - 1950s, OKonstantin Yuon created a number of portraits, paintings on the themes of the history of the revolution and contemporary life, in which he adhered to the realistic tradition. The landscapes of this time are similar in manner of execution to the earlier works of the 1910s, in which elements of impressionism and "itinerant realism" were closely intertwined. Filled with subtle lyricism, they are of the greatest value in the entire creative heritage of the master.

1912 Self-portrait of Konstantin Yuon. H., M. 54x36. Timing

1890s Landscape with a church. Oil on cardboard.

1899 Birches. Petrovskoe. X.m. 147x80. Vologda

1899 Portrait of Z.A. Pertsova. Fragment.

1900 Monastery in the snow.

1900 At the Novodevichy Convent in the spring. B., aqu., Ink, white State Tretyakov Gallery

1901 Old elms.

1903 April morning.

1903 A holiday. Tempera on cardboard. 95.5x70. Timing

1903 In the monastery posad. At the Trinity-Sergius.

1903 Red sleigh. Trinity-Sergiev Posad.

In the monastery posad. At the Trinity-Sergius.

1903 Landscape.

1904 Life on the shore. Pskov. Saratov

1905 Window. Moscow, the apartment of the artist's parents. Pastel on cardboard. 49x64. State Tretyakov Gallery

1906 On the banks of the Pskova River. B. on cardboard, aqu., Whitewash, coal.

1906 Gate of the Rostov Kremlin.

1906. Spring Evening. Rostov the Great. HM. 70x96. Serpukhov

1906 Cathedral in Rostov the Great. B., aqu., Bel. Emergency

1906 Blue Day. Rostov the Great. H., M. 77x160. Ryazan

1906 Winter. Rostov the Great.

1907 Interior.

1907 Elderberry bush. Decorative landscape. Pskov. H., M. 70.5x123. Tashkent

1908 At the Assembly of the Nobility. X. on cardboard, m. 71x95.7. Tretyakov Gallery (q)

Winter forest, paper, gouache, 18x25

Seascape. Mountain stingray. Emergency

Autumn view from the balcony. Canvas, oil. 71.8x58.

1908 Bridge across the river Oku in Nizhny Novgorod.

1908 The city of Voskresensk.

1908 Blue bush. Canvas, oil.

1909 Troika at the old Yar. Winter. H., M. 71x89. Bishkek

1909 A walk on the Maiden's Field. Esq. to cards. of the same name. 1909-47 from the State Tretyakov Gallery. X., M., 30x44.5. ChS, M.

1909 Nizhny Novgorod in winter.

1909 Crossing the Oka. Nizhny Novgorod. B., aqu., Whitewash.

1909 Night. Tverskoy Boulevard. B., aqu., Whitewash.

1910 Spring sunny day. Canvas, oil. 87x131. Timing

Procession on the slope.

1910 Intimate World. B., temp. 62x95. Pskov

1910 View of Moscow from Sparrow Hills. H., M. 71x198. Yerevan

1910 Winter day. X., m. 80x110.5. Kharkov

1910s The first day of Easter. B., aqu. MN

1910s Landscape with birches. Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard.

1910 Trinity Lavra. March. B., aqu., Bel.

1910 Moscow. Kremlin. B., aqu. 32x35. Yerevan

1910 Winter. Plywood, oil. 23.2x30.2. Emergency

1910 Trinity Lavra in winter. Canvas, oil. 125x198. Timing

1910s Landscape of the Novgorod province.

1910s Winter. Landscape with a red church.

1910 Rural holiday. Tver province. Canvas, oil.

1911 Moskvoretsky bridge. Old Moscow. B., aqu., Whitewash. 62.5x167.5. Tretyakov Gallery. Fragment.

1912 A village in the Novgorod province. H., M. 58x70.5. Timing

1912 Dance of matchmakers. Ligachevo. H., M. 134x200.

1912 Portrait of Boris Yuon, the artist's son. 87.7x69.8. GT

1913 Body.

1913 Esc. to Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov". Act II. Tower of Tsar Boris. Maps, gouache. 63.5x83.5. GTsTM

1913 Troika in Uglich. B., aqu., Bel. 53x69. Timing

1913 Carousel. Uglich. B., aqu., Bel.

1913 Mill. October. Ligachevo. Canvas, oil. 60x81. State Tretyakov Gallery

1913 Coronation of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613. Cathedral Square, Moscow Kremlin. Canvas, oil. 81x116

1913 The coronation of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613. Cathedral Square, Moscow Kremlin. Canvas, oil. 81x116. Fragment

1914 Winter. Bridge. Canvas, oil. 68.6x104. Penza

1915 May morning. Nightingale place. Ligachevo. HM.

1916 View of the Trinity Lavra. Watercolor and whitewash on paper. 22.5x30. State Tretyakov Gallery

1916 Winter sun. Ligachevo. H., M. 105x153. Riga

1916 Palm Bazaar on Red Square. 1916.B. On maps., Aqu., White.

1917 Privolye. A waterhole (Ligachevo). Canvas, oil. 78x119. Irkutsk

1917 At the Pskov Cathedral. B. on cards., Gouache. 30.3x22.9. M.-kv. Brodsky

1920 Bathing. OK. 1920

1920 Provincials. Gouache on paper glued to cardboard. 62x75.5. Nikolaev

1920s Trinity-Sergius Lavra. In winter.

1920s Morning in the village. The hostess. Kazan

1921 Domes and swallows. Assumption Cathedral of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. H., M. 71x89. State Tretyakov Gallery

1921 New planet. Tempera on cardboard. 71x101. State Tretyakov Gallery

1922 Refectory of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Canvas, oil.

1922 Symphony of action. X., M. 78x92. Private collection. Moscow

1922 August evening. Ligachevo. X., M. 76x98. Simferopol

1922 Annunciation Day. Canvas, oil.

1923 People. X., M. 91 x 121. Kharkiv

1924 Portrait of K.A. Yuon, the artist's wife. X., M. 50x55. Collection of O. I. Yuon. Moscow

1924 Body. B., aqu. 30.5x24.5. Sobr. OI Yuona. Moscow

1924 Alexander Garden near the Kremlin. Canvas, oil

1926 Portrait of the poet Grigory Shirman. Emergency

1926 Komsomolskaya Pravda. 1926. H., M. 52x67. DEM

1926 Moscow region youth. Ligachevo. X., m.

1926 In those days. At the House of Unions on the days of Lenin's funeral. B., aqu., Bel. 32x49. Central Lenin Museum

1927 The first appearance of V. I. Lenin at the meeting. Petrosovet in Smolny October 25. 1917 H., M. 132x191. Timing

1928 Seeing off the workers' detachment to the front. H., M. 198x310. TsMVS USSR

1928 Holiday of cooperation in the village. Plywood, m. 71x89. Sevastopol

1928 The first female collective farmers. In the rays of the sun. Podolino. Moscow region HM.

1928 Window to nature. Ligachevo, May. Oil on canvas, 65x100

1928 Picking apples. H., M. 94x120. Kaluga

1929 End of winter. Noon. Ligachevo. Canvas, oil. 89x112. State Tretyakov Gallery

1929 Outgoing province. H. on plywood, m. 79x104. Voronezh

1929 Canopy. Ligachevo. X., m. 85x99. Private collection. Moscow

1929 Portrait of a boy Oleg Yuon, the artist's grandson. X., M. 31x25. Sobr. OI Yuona.

1929 People of the future. H. on plywood, m. 66.5x100. Tver

1929 University students. H. on plywood, m. 72x90. State Tretyakov Gallery

1930 Ski excursion. Canvas, oil. 71x123. State Tretyakov Gallery

1930 Meeting of the Nikitinskiye Subbotniki association. HM.

1930 Returning from work. 1930. H., M.

1930 Cornflowers in the sunbeam. Plywood, m.49.5x40.6. Arkhangelsk

1930s Portrait of Shura. Early 1930s. Vologda

1930s Lefortovo Garden in Moscow. Emergency

1930s Portrait of a Woman. Late 1930s. Private collection

1935 Winter in the forest.

1935 Light and Air. H., M. MN

1935 Beginning of spring. H., M. 93x133. Kishinev

1940 Esc. to Mussorgsky's opera "Khovanshchina". Martha. 1940 (q)

Yuon Konstantin Fedorovich, painter

Yuon Konstantin Fedorovich(1875-1958), Soviet painter. People's Artist of the USSR (1950), full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1947). Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1892-98) under K. A. Savitsky, A. E. Arkhipov, N. A. Kasatkin (after graduation he worked there in the workshop of V. A. Serov in 1898-1900). He taught in his own studio in Moscow (together with IO Dudin; 1900-17), Moscow Art Institute (professor in 1952-55) and other educational institutions. Member of the World of Art association, one of the organizers of the Union of Russian Artists, member of the Academy of Arts (since 1925). Director of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the USSR Academy of Arts (1948-50), First Secretary of the Board of the USSR Union of Artists (since 1957). Yuon turned to the motives of the Russian province, revealed the historical and national originality of its life and landscape in a lush, vivid painting manner, formed under the influence of impressionism ("To the Trinity. March", 1903, "March Sun", 1915). In Soviet times, he began with the embodiment of a revolutionary theme in symbolic and allegorical compositions (New Planet, 1921); later acted as the keeper of the realistic traditions of Russian art ("Domes and Swallows", 1921: "End of Winter. Noon"), captured the events of revolutionary history ("Storming the Kremlin in 1917", 1947), images of people of the Soviet era ("Parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941 ", 1949;" Morning of Industrial Moscow ", 1949; all the works mentioned are in the State Tretyakov Gallery). The works of Yuon of this period are characterized by colorful decorativeness, freshness of perception, lyrical penetration. Also known as a theater artist, worked in the field

Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon (1875-1958) - Russian Soviet painter, master of landscape, theater artist, art theorist.

Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1947). People's Artist of the USSR (1950). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1943). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1951.

Born October 12 (24), 1875 in Moscow, into a German-speaking Swiss family. Father - an employee of an insurance company, later - its director; mother is an amateur musician.

From 1892 to 1898 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His teachers were such masters as K. A. Savitsky, A. E. Arkhipov, N. A. Kasatkin.

After graduating from college, he worked for two years in the workshop of V. A. Serov. Then he founded his own studio, in which he taught from 1900 to 1917 together with I.O.Dudin. His students were, in particular, A. V. Kuprin, V. A. Favorsky, V. I. Mukhina, the Vesnin brothers, V. A. Vatagin, N. D. Kolli, A. V. Grishchenko, M. G. Reuter.

In 1903, Yuon became one of the organizers of the Union of Russian Artists. He was also one of the members of the World of Art association.

From 1907 he worked in the field of theatrical decoration.

Conducted an art studio at the Prechistensky working courses with I.O.Dudin (one of the students - Yu.A. Bakhrushin.)

In 1925, Yuon became a member of the AHRR. There is every reason to believe that he sympathized with Bolshevism. Thus, on the painting "New Planet", created in 1921 or 1922, the artist depicted the cosmological significance of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Another "cosmic" picture "People" (1923) deals with the creation of a new world filled with the same content, although some people want to "guess" the contours of the Solovetsky special purpose camp (SLON). The painting "Parade of the Red Army" (1923) was made in the same plan.

The painting “Domes and Swallows. Assumption Cathedral of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra "(1921). This is a panoramic landscape painted from the bell tower of the cathedral on a clear summer evening at sunset. The earth thrives under the gentle sky, and sunlit domes with golden patterned crosses shine in the foreground. The motive itself is not only very effective, but also symbolizes the significant cultural and historical role of the church.

In addition to working in the painting genre, Yuon took up the design of theatrical performances ("Boris Godunov" at the Paris Diaghilev Theater, "The Inspector General" at the Art Theater, "Arakcheevschina", etc.), as well as artistic graphics.

From 1948 to 1950, the artist worked as director of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.

From 1952 to 1955 he taught as a professor at the Moscow Art Institute. VI Surikov, as well as in a number of other educational institutions. Since 1957 he was the first secretary of the board of the USSR Union of Artists.

K.F.Yuon died on April 11, 1958. Buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery (plot No. 4)

Yuon Konstantin Fedorovich is a great Russian painter and landscape painter. In addition to painting, he was engaged in the design of theatrical performances, was an academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, People's Artist of the USSR.

Konstantin Yuon was born in Moscow in 1875. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His teachers were such renowned artists as K. A. Savitsky (genre artist, itinerant), A. E. Arkhipov (itinerant, founder of the Union of Russian Artists), N. A. Kasatkin (itinerant, one of the founders of socialist realism). In life and work, Yuon Konstantin Fedorovich was a happy and successful person. He became an established painter at a fairly early age. Throughout his life, he regularly received awards, prizes, titles, enjoyed various honors. His paintings sold out very quickly and were very popular. Also, his paintings participated in exhibitions of the Itinerants, exhibitions of the World of Art and others. The artist achieved such recognition from the public himself, with his painstaking work and incredible talent, his poetic view of Russia and his love for ordinary human joys, which in his paintings seem to be unusually inspired and enchanting.

In addition to painting and designing theatrical performances, he founded his own studio, where he taught the basics and secrets of art. A.V. Kuprin, Mukhina, the Vesnin brothers, A.V. Grishchenko, M. Roiter and others became his students. Also known as one of the founders of the Union of Russian Artists. He was one of the members-artists of the well-known association ““. Taught at the V.I.Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute and other art institutions. He died on April 11, 1958. Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

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K.F.Yuon paintings

Self-portrait

Spring sunny day

Winter sorceress in Ligachevo

Blue bush

Walking on the Maiden's Field

Village of Novgorod province

Winter. Bridge

Komsomolskaya Pravda

Red goods. Rostov the Great

March sun