Konstantin Alexievitch Korovine - Artist Info

About Konstantin Alexievitch Korovine

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Konstantin Korovin, Constantin Alexeivitch Korovine, Konstantin Alexeievitch Korowin
  • Biography

    Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter.

    Konstantin was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as peasants of Vladimir gubernia. His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin's grandfather. Konstantin's older brother, Sergey Korovin, was a notable realist painter. Konstantin's relative Illarion Pryanishnikov was also a prominent painter of the time and a teacher at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

    In 1875 Korovin entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he learned f...

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