Isaak Mendelevich
Isaak Mendelevich | |
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| Исаак Абрамович Менделевич | |
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| Born | 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1887 |
| Died | 9 September 1952 Moscow, USSR |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | sculptor |
| Awards | Stalin Prize |
Isaak Abramovich Mendelevich (Russian: Исаак Абрамович Менделевич; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1887 – 9 September 1952) was a Soviet realist sculptor who made many statues of famous Soviet politicians, artists, and military figures.
Biography
[edit]Mendelevich was born on 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1887 to a Jewish family in Moscow.[1] In Russia, he studied under the famous sculptors Konstantin Krakht and Anna Golubkina.[2] He then went to Paris to study sculpting from 1909 to 1911.[3] He returned to Moscow in 1911.[4]
He was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.[5] After the October Revolution he participated in the project for development of Soviet sculpture art and worked on a sculpture of Victor Hugo.[4]
He made sculptures depicting many famous people of the Soviet Union, including Vladimir Lenin, Mikhail Frunze, Yakov Sverdlov, Alexander Pushkin, Maxim Gorky, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Mikhail Lermontov, Sergey Chaplygin, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Akaki Khorava, Ivan Moskvin, Prov Sadovsky, Valery Chkalov, Mikhail Gromov, and Vladimir Lavrinenkov.[6][7][8][9]
He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1942 for his statue of Hero of the Soviet Union pilot Valery Chkalov.[10]
He died in Moscow on 9 September 1952.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Государственная Третьяковская галерея. Скульптура первой половины XX века [State Tretyakov Gallery. Sculpture of the first half of the 20th century] (in Russian). Moscow: Krasnaya ploshchad. 2002. p. 318.
- ^ 15 лет РККА: живопись графика, скульптура текстиль, декоративное искусство, искусство палеха и мстеры [15 years of the Red Army: painting, graphics, sculpture, textiles, decorative arts, art of Palekh and Mstera] (in Russian). Vsekokhudozhnik. 1933. p. 145.
- ^ Peker, Yakov (2010). Евреи на марках и открытках. Иллюстрированные биографические очерки. Книга 2. Архитекторы, скульпторы, художники, фотографы [Jews on stamps and postcards. Illustrated biographical sketches. Book 2. Architects, sculptors, artists, photographers] (in Russian). Mosty kultry. p. 69.
- ^ a b Paramonov, A. (1955). И. А. Менделевич [I. A. Mendelevich] (in Russian). Sovetsky khudozhnik. pp. 5–7.
- ^ "Памяти И.А. Меделевича" [Memory of I.A. Mendelevich] (PDF). Sovetskoe iskusstvo (in Russian). 10 September 1952. p. 4.
- ^ Kudrevatykh, Leonid (1945). "Четвертая встреча" [Fourth meeting]. Ogonyok (in Russian) (50): 7–8.
- ^ Bobrov, N.; Ignatyev, V. (6 July 1946). "Ваятель" [Sculptor]. Stalinsky sokol (in Russian). p. 4.
- ^ "Актер Пров Михайлович Садовский" [Actor Provided Mikhailovich Sadovsky]. Vechernyaya Moskva (in Russian). 27 December 1946. p. 3.
- ^ "Памятники для Москвы" [Monuments for Moscow]. Vechernyaya Moskva (in Russian). 11 December 1947. p. 3.
- ^ "в) Скульптуры" [v) Sculptors]. Izvestiya (in Russian). 12 April 1942. p. 1.