KOLUPAYEV
Dmitry Antonovich
(1883—1954)

Theatre and film artist, painter. Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1905—16), K.A. Korovin and S.V. Malyutin’s apprentice. In 1906—13 was an executive painter at the Moscow Art Theatre, in 1913 worked for the Moscow Independent Theatre headed by V.A. Simov. Designed the sets for the opera “Sorochinskaya yarmarka” (“Sorochintsy Fair”) by M.P. Mussorgsky (1913) and for the following plays: “The Importance of Being Earnest” by O. Wilde (1914), “He who gets slapped” by L.N. Andreyev (1915) – at the Moscow Drama Theatre of the Sukhodolskies, etc. By the mid. 1920s worked as a film painter mostly (till the mid. 1930s): for the 1st and 3rd factories of “Goskino”; for the Moscow united factory of “Soyuzkino”; for the Moscow factory of “Rosfilm”; for the film factory of “Mosfilm”. Author of the following paintings: “The Winter Sketch” (1908), “Shaft of Light” (appr. 1911), “By the Window” (appr. 1912), “Moscow yard” (appr. 1913), “Ballerina” (sketch, 1915), “At the Bazar” (1923), etc. Kolupayev’s exhibition took place in Moscow in 1955.