Aleksei KORZUKHIN 1835 — 1894Олексій Іванович КОРЗУХИН • Алексей Иванович КОРЗУХИНAleksei Ivanovich Korzukhin was born in Ekaterinburg in 1835. He began studying art by copying icons in the Church of the Transfiguration in Uktus, under the direction of the sexton. He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1857, where he studied in the class of historical painting under Feodor Bruni and Petr Basin. In 1861 he received his first award for his painting, The Drunken Father. Korzukhin was associated with the most innovative tendencies in Russian art in the latter part of the 19th century. He was the founding member of the Wanderers in 1870. Korzukhin’s genre paintings were important social commentaries, yet they were characterized by a level of sentimentality that was generally avoided by the Wanderers. The artist died in St. Petersburg in 1894. |
