Semen
Grigorievich Mukhin

Moscow artist Simon G. Mukhin (1891-1972) was born Rogozhskaya gate in the old believer family of six children. Early lost his father, Simon at age 14 began working life working first as a setter in the farm, then in the icon shop, a typesetter in a printing house. In 1904 he began to study painting, but at that time his dream about entering the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture not destined to be. During the first world war it soldiers of the 228th infantry regiment of Zadonsk; after the revolution of 1917 he graduated from the Higher school of military camouflage and sent to the disposal of the Petrograd military district.

Only in the autumn of 1921, S. G. Mukhin sent to study in VHUTEMAS, organized on the basis of the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture. The basics of the skill he attains from G. V. Fedorov, workshop of L. S. Popova, and in 1925 he graduated from VKhUTEMAS in the Studio of I. I. Mashkov. Since 1926, the artist presents his paintings at exhibitions of society "Genesis", which in those years was attended by p. P. Konchalovsky, A. V. Kuprin, Alexander Osmerkin, sculptor G. I. Motovilov. Art critics distinguish Mukhina among gifted youth "Being".

Leaf S. G. Mukhin imbued with poetic perception of the world. He is a great master of landscape, especially architectural. A large cycle of paintings dedicated to Kolomna and Kirillo-Belozersk, Rostov the Great and Uglich, the Iosifo-Volokolamsk monastery and architectural monuments of Moscow, the Moscow and the Pushkin reserve. The painting is in the collection of the State Tretyakov gallery and Penza art gallery named after K. A. Savitsky.

"Autobiographical notes" was compiled by S. G. Mukhin in the last years of his life at the request of the son of Vsevolod S. Mukhina. Professional visual memory of the artist has preserved many picturesque details and will.