Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon (; – April 11, 1958) was a noted

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n painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva. Later, he co-founded the Union of Russian Artists and the

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Biography

Yuon was born in Moscow to the family of a banking clerk of Swiss-Russian origin (the surname ''Juon'' being of

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for current-day distribution.). His brother Paul Juon was a notable composer. From 1892 to 1898 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where

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and Konstantin Korovin were among his distinguished teachers. After graduating from the Moscow Art School he took private lessons from Valentin Serov (1898–1900). During several trips to Western Europe, particularly in

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, he became acquainted with the cityscapes of

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and other Impressionists, but retained his own distinctive style. In 1900 he opened the first private painting and drawing school in Moscow. Some noted Russian painters received art education in the school (for example, Olga Zhekulina). Later he taught in Leningrad Academy of Arts and the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow. His studio in Moscow was widely used by other painters. He designed sets for plays at the

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and the Maly Theater, becoming the official designer for this theater from 1945 to 1947. He also contributed sets for operas. In the Soviet era, Yuon was the director of the Research Institute of the Academy of Arts (1948–1950) and the First Secretary of the

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(1956–1958). He won a Stalin Prize (1943), received the

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and other orders and medals. He died in Moscow on April 11, 1958.

Selected works

Konstantin Yuon started as an

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landscape and genre painter with a

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note. Among the impressionist landscapes are ''To the Trinity'' (1903) and ''Tverskoy Boulevard'' (1909). Later he toyed with the ideas of lyrical landscape mixed with the imitations of Palekh miniature and

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arts. The most Symbolist of his works are the cycle of engravings ''Creation of the World'' on the theme of Genesis (1908–1912) and the painting ''New Planet'' that shows the

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as the result of a cosmic catastrophe. To the end of his life he became a strict socialist realism artist, producing paintings like ''Parade on the

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on November 7, 1941''. File:Soft goods.jpg, Soft goods, 1905 File:Blue bush.jpg, The blue bush, 1908 File:Yuon boulevard.jpg,

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, 1909 File:Spring sunny day.jpg, Spring sunny day, 1910 File:Yuon Lavra1911.jpg, View of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra from Vokzalnaya Street, 1911 File:Portrait of Claudia Yuon.jpg, Portrait of Klavdiya Yuon, the artist's wife, 1911 File:Yuon New Planet 1921.jpg, New Planet, 1921 File:Yuon RedSquare Parade 1941.jpg,

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on the

on November 7, 1941, painted in 1949

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Biography

Selected works

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