Platon Tyurin
Platon Tyurin | |
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| Платон Тюрин | |
 Self Portrait (1857) | |
| Born | November 7, 1816 |
| Died | August 6, 1882 (aged 65) |
| Education | Member Academy of Arts (1857) |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts (1850) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Style | Classicism |
Platon Semyonovich Tyurin (Russian: Платон Семёнович Тюрин; 19 November [O.S. 7 November] 1816 — 18 August [O.S. 6 August] 1882) was a Russian portrait painter and muralist. He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Biography[edit]
He was born to a family of serfs and was given his freedom in 1843. Two years later, he went to Saint Petersburg, where he audited classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts and studied with Alexey Markov. In 1850, he was awarded the title of "Artist" for historical and portrait painting. From 1850 to 1860, he was a regular exhibitor at the Academy. In 1857, he was named an "Academician" for portraiture and received the title of "Titular Councilor" (a civil service position).[1]
After 1860, his work was intimately connected with Vologda and the surrounding region. he received orders for portraits from all the local landowning families, including the Zubovs, as well as the clergy and other notable citizens. Throughout the 1860s, he received commissions to paint icons at local churches and, in 1862, his former manorial lords invited him to paint a church on their estate in the Gryazovetsky District.[1]
He also worked at the church of Quriaqos and Julietta in nearby Tolstikovo, where Sergei Yesenin would later marry his first wife, Zinaida Reich.[citation needed] The building was demolished during the Soviet period.
In 1865, Tyurin married a local peasant woman. From 1876 to 1877, he was one of the artists who participated in decorating the new Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, creating 34 icons. Overtaxed physically by his work there, he was ill for several years and died of tuberculosis in 1882.[1]
Works[edit]
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The Zaytsev Sisters -
Portrait of S. A. Zubov -
Male portrait (1849) -
Portrait of a girl in a blue dress (1844)
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References[edit]
- ^ a b c Brief biography Archived 2022-01-29 at the Wayback Machine @ the Vologda Oblast website.
Literary sources[edit]
- С. Н. Кондаков (1915). Юбилейный справочник Императорской Академии художеств. 1764-1914 (in Russian). Vol. 2. p. 202.
External links[edit]
Media related to Platon Tyurin at Wikimedia Commons
- "Platon Tyurin: Church painting in Arkhangelsk" @ CultInfo.ru
- Brief biography and a few more paintings @ LDK-Sokol
- Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
- Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
- 1816 births
- 1882 deaths
- 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire
- Russian male painters
- Russian portrait painters
- Russian icon painters
- People from Sokolsky District, Vologda Oblast
- 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis deaths in Russia
- 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire