Kotyagin, Alexander Fedorovich

Alexander Fedorovich Kotyagin was born on December 30, 1882 in the village of Mstera, Vladimir Region. From 1893 to 1897 he studied at the Mster Icon Painting School. He worked in icon-painting workshops of the village of Mstera (1897-1903) and Moscow (1903-1915), painted temples, was engaged in writing and restoration of icons.

During the years of Soviet power, he took up the miniature. This direction in painting further determined the direction of work of modern Mstera. He took part in the creation of the "Artel of Old Russian Painting" (1923) and the "Proletarian Art" artel (1931). In 1940 he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR ^[2] .

Since 1932, he worked as a teacher of miniature painting at the Mster art vocational school, he studied with many modern artists of the studio. Died July 17, 1943.

The works of Kotyagin and other craftsmen were exhibited at several international exhibitions.

In 1937, at the World Exhibition in Paris, Kotyagin was awarded the Grand Prix diploma and a gold medal.

Alexander Fedorovich Kotyagin, one of the first masters of miniature painting, began to depict reality to a contemporary artist. His miniatures are known: “Bread procurements” (1933), “Peasants on the river” (1934), “Road improvement” (1934), “Heroics of the Soviet Union” (1935), “Prosperous life of collective farmers” (1936) and others. In his miniatures The Troika, 1932; "Chase", 1932 and others. The artist solved the problems of the image of movement.

Part of the artist’s works was performed on plots of folk tales, historical events, works of poets and writers: “The Parable of Two Friends”, 1933; "The Parable of the Two Men", 1933; "At the Seashore", 1936; “Igor’s appearance on a campaign against the Polovtsy”, 1940; The Capture of Ishmael, 1942, etc.

A.F. Kotyagin also performed compositions on caskets and other forms of papier-mâché. During the years of Soviet power, he performed works devoted to contemporary Soviet reality: “Heroics of the Soviet Union”; 1935, "The prosperous life of collective farmers", 1936; “Igor’s appearance on a campaign against the Polovtsy”, 1940; "Palace of the Soviets", 1938 and others.

• Kotyagin, Alexander Fedorovich // Basket - Kukunor. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1953. - S. 162. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 51 vols.] / Ch. Ed. B. A. Vvedensky ; 1949-1958, vol. 23).

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