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Isaak Mendelevich
Исаак Абрамович Менделевич
Born28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1887
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died9 September 1952
Moscow, USSR
CitizenshipRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Occupationsculptor
AwardsStalin 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

Mendelevich was born on 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1887 to a Jewish family in Moscow. In Russia, he studied under the famous sculptors Konstantin Krakht and Anna Golubkina. He then went to Paris to study sculpting from 1909 to 1911. He returned to Moscow in 1911.

He was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. After the October Revolution he participated in the project for development of Soviet sculpture art and worked on a sculpture of Victor Hugo.

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.

He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1942 for his statue of Hero of the Soviet Union pilot Valery Chkalov.

He died in Moscow on 9 September 1952.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. ^ Paramonov, A. (1955). И. А. Менделевич [I. A. Mendelevich] (in Russian). Sovetsky khudozhnik. pp. 5–7.
  5. "Памяти И.А. Меделевича" [Memory of I.A. Mendelevich] (PDF). Sovetskoe iskusstvo (in Russian). 10 September 1952. p. 4.
  6. Kudrevatykh, Leonid (1945). "Четвертая встреча" [Fourth meeting]. Ogonyok (in Russian) (50): 7–8.
  7. Bobrov, N.; Ignatyev, V. (6 July 1946). "Ваятель" [Sculptor]. Stalinsky sokol (in Russian). p. 4.
  8. "Актер Пров Михайлович Садовский" [Actor Provided Mikhailovich Sadovsky]. Vechernyaya Moskva (in Russian). 27 December 1946. p. 3.
  9. "Памятники для Москвы" [Monuments for Moscow]. Vechernyaya Moskva (in Russian). 11 December 1947. p. 3.
  10. "в) Скульптуры" [v) Sculptors]. Izvestiya (in Russian). 12 April 1942. p. 1.
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