Golovin А.Y. (1863-1930), artist

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GOLOVIN Alexander Yakovlevich (1863-1930, Detskoe Selo), stage designer and painter, full member of the Academy of Arts (1912), people's artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1928). He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1881-89, and in private schools in Paris. A member of the World of Art Association from 1902 and the Union of Russian Artists in 1903-16. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1902; he was the chief designer for Imperial Theatres. He mainly designed scenery for the Mariinsky and Alexandrinsky theatres, including G. Bizet's Carmen in 1908, K. W. Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydices in 1911, and A. S. Dargomyzhsky's Stone Guest in 1917 for the former and J. B. Moliere 's Don Juan in 1910, Mikhail Lermontov's Masquerade in 1917, etc. for the latter. He achieved the best results as a stage designer when he collaborated with V. E. Meyerhold striving for the complete interlacing of the stage scenery with the designs of the director for the overall performance. He designed the scenery for M. P. Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and I. F. Stravinsky's Fire Bird for the Russian Seasons in Paris in 1908 and 1910. He painted expressive theatrical portraits of artists, such as M. A. Kuzmin in 1910 exhibited in the State Tretyakov Gallery, F. I. Chaliapin Playing Boris Godunov of 1912 and V. E. Meyerhold of 1917, both portraits exhibited in the State Russian Museum, as well as women's portraits. He was buried at Novodevichoe Cemetery.

Reference: А. Я. Головин: Встречи и впечатления. Письма. Воспоминания о Головине. Л.; М., 1960; Бассехес А. И. Театр и живопись Головина. М., 1970; Гофман И. М. Головин-портретист. Л., 1981; Пожарская М. Н. Александр Головин: Путь художника. Художник и время. М., 1990.

O. L. Leikind, D. Y. Severyukhin. Bizet Georges
Chaliapin Fedor Ivanovich
Dargomyzhsky Alexander Sergeevich
Gluck Christoph Willibald
Golovin Alexander Yakovlevich
Kuzmin Mikhail Alexeevich
Lermontov Mikhail Yurievich
Meyerhold Vsevolod Emilievich
Moliere Jean-Baptiste
Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich
Stravinsky Igor Fedorovich
Головин А.Я. Встречи и впечатления. Письма. Воспоминания о Головине. Л.; М., 1960
Пожарская М. Н. Александр Головин: Путь художника. Художник и время. М., 1990
Гофман И. М. Головин-портретист. Л., 1981
Бассехес А. И. Театр и живопись Головина. М., 1970 World of Art, Association
Mariinsky Theatre
Alexandrinsky Theatre
Novodevichye Cemetery
Novodevichye Cemetery