Pavel Dmitrievich Korin, a Russian painter, muralist, portrait artist, restorer and teacher, was born in the village of Palekh, Ivanovo Region, in 1892.
Between 1903 and 1907, he studied at the Palekh icon-painting school, after which he was accepted as a pupil at the Moscow icon-painting chamber of the Donskoy Monastery.
In 1911, the artist Mikhail Nesterov invited Pavel Korin to paint churches.
In 1912, the artist entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1916, Pavel Korin graduated from the school and, in accordance with the wishes of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, went to Yaroslavl and Rostov to study the frescoes of ancient Russian churches.
In February 1917, he settled in Moscow, where he organized a workshop, in which he worked until 1934.
Between 1918 and 1919, he taught painting and drawing at the State Free Art Workshops.
From 1919 to 1922, he worked in the Anatomical Theater of the First Moscow State Medical University. At the same time, he made drawings from classical examples of antique sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts.
In 1927, Korin’s watercolor “In the Artist’s Studio” was acquired for the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.
The most famous works of the artist are the triptych “Alexander Nevsky”, and portraits of commander Georgy Zhukov and writer Maxim Gorky.
In 1942, Pavel Korin led a team of restorers who recreated the plafond and foyer of the Bolshoi Theater after the bombing. At the end of the war, he was engaged in the restoration of paintings of the Dresden Gallery. He headed the restoration workshop of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. He reсreated frescoes in St. Vladimir’s Cathedral in Kiev.
In 1952, he was awarded a Second Degree prize for the mosaic plafonds of the Komsomolskaya station of the Moscow Metro. Famous monumental works of the artist are stained glass windows of Novoslobodskaya station, mosaics of Smolenskaya and Paveletskaya stations, as well as panels in the design of the assembly hall of the main building of Moscow State University.
In 1958, Pavel Korin became an Honorary Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR and People’s Artist of the RSFSR. From 1960 to 1964, he was head of the State Central Art Restoration Workshop. In 1962, he became People’s Artist of the USSR.
The artist died on November 22, 1967 in Moscow.
