Category Archive: Sculpture

Lupanova Elizaveta Nikolaevna artist.

Lupanova Elizaveta Nikolaevna (1910-1973) – artist of figurine painting. Leningrad Porcelain Factory.

She was born in the town of Detskoye Selo (now Pushkin, formerly Tsarskoye Selo). Having quite good drawing abilities, she already knew from her school years in which direction she would receive professional education. In the late 1920s, she entered the ceramics department of the Leningrad Art and Industrial College. After receiving her diploma in 1931, she began her creative path as an artist in the Izobretatel artel. In 1932, she changed her place of work and for two years improved her artistic skills in the Household Commune of the Theater of Working Youth (“TRAM”). In 1937, fate linked Lupanova with the legendary Leningrad Porcelain Factory (LPF), where she painted porcelain products before the Great Patriotic War.

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Sculptor Elena Aleksandrovna Yanson Manizer.

The cycle of works by the remarkable sculptor Elena Aleksandrovna Yanson-Manizer (1890-1971), dedicated to Soviet ballet, is evidence of the highest cultural level of both Soviet ballet and Soviet sculpture. Why did she become such a sculptor?

It’s very simple: she studied with the remarkable, highly professional sculptor M.G.Manizer, who, in turn, received a good academic education at the end of the existence of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

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Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich

Biography of Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich

Veniamin Borisovich Pinchuk (1908-1987) Soviet monumental sculptor, teacher.

Veniamin Pinchuk was born on November 17, 1908 in the village of Goroshki in the Russian Empire.

From 1928 to 1930 he studied at the Moscow VKhUTEIN with Mukhina Vera Ignatievna.

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Monument to Ara Sargsyan in Yerevan

The story of Ara Sargsyan – a sculptor, the first rector of the Academy of Arts and avenger

It is almost impossible to visit Yerevan and not see the work of the sculptor Ara Sargsyan. In front of one of the most popular places in the city – the building of the Opera and Ballet Theater, there are monuments to two great Armenians – Hovhannes Tumanyan and Alexander Spendiaryan. Both monuments belong to the hand of the famous sculptor, now inappropriately forgotten Ara Sargsyan. Ara Sargsyan embodied his monumental work in Gyumri, over which Mother Armenia proudly towers – a symbol of victory.

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Nikolai Tomsky Soviet sculptor

Biography of  Nikolai Tomsky

In 1912 he graduated from a four-year rural school. Since childhood, he was fond of drawing, but then he did not even have to dream of a special art education. Simultaneously with his studies, he helped his father in the field and worked with him in the smithy. When, during the First World War, his father was drafted into the army, Nikolai remained the only worker in the family. From the age of nineteen he took part in the civil war in the ranks of the Red Army. In battles with the White Poles, he was wounded.

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Vuchetich Evgeny Viktorovich

Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich devoted almost half a century to monumental art. People’s Artist of the USSR, laureate of five Stalin and Lenin Prizes created more than forty sculptural portraits from field marshals of the Russian Empire to the commanders of the Soviet army.

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Konenkov Sergey Timofeevich with his works

Sergey Timofeevich Konenkov is a famous Russian and Soviet sculptor, a master of Russian sculpture of Symbolism and Art Nouveau, who rightfully received the title of “Russian Rodin”.

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