Gavriil Alexandrowitsch Schulz
Gavriil Alexandrovich Schulz ( Russian Гавриил Александрович Шульц * February 26 . Jul / 11. March 1903 greg. In Krasnoye on the Volga ; † 2. January 1984 in Moscow ) was a Russian sculptor and university lecturer .
Life
Schulz was the son of the governorate - taster , pantheist and faunist Alexander Iwanowitsch Schulz (1870-1935) and his Swedish second wife Jadwiga Friedrichowna nee Grünberg. Lev Alexandrovich Schulz was a stepbrother. The grandfather IA Schulz was a member of the St. Petersburg city duma . The German ancestor Anton Schulz was a sculptor and medalist in Copenhagen and came to St. Petersburg at the invitation of Peter I.
Schulz was already involved in animal painting as a teenager . His brother Oleg became an ichthyologist . Schulz grew up in Belarus and Ukraine . He graduated from high school in 1917. After the October Revolution he was a district cultural organizer and sugar factory worker in Berdychiv . After the Russian Civil War , he studied at the Distance Learning Institute in Odessa in 1923 . In 1924 Schulz went to Leningrad to study at the higher artistic-technical workshops with the sculptors Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood , Vsevolod Vsevolodowitsch Lischew and Alexander Terentjewitsch Matvejew (until 1927). In 1928 Schulz served in the Red Army . In 1929 he became a teacher at the Vitebsk Art Technical College . In 1931 he returned to Leningrad and taught at the sculpture - Faculty of the Institute of proletarian performing arts. In 1932 he switched to the architecture faculty. In the same year he began his apprenticeship at the Institute for Painting , Sculpture and Architecture with Alexander Terentjewitsch Matvejew. From 1934 he also held preparatory courses there. In 1936 he graduated and became a lecturer . In 1939 he became a candidate for art history .
After the start of the German-Soviet War , Schulz joined the Leningrad Opoltschenije on July 6, 1941 . After a bruise in 1942, he and children were evacuated by artists to Siberia in the Tyumen Oblast in 1943 . He then taught at the Moscow State Institute of Art History . In 1950 he moved to the sculpture faculty of the Moscow Arts and Crafts University (now Moscow Stroganov Academy of Arts and Industry), where he remained until his death. In 1958 he became professor and head of the chair for decorative architectural plastic .
Honors
- Medal "Victory over Germany"
- Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Bronze Medal of Expo 58 for the sculpture of the lion tamer Irina Bugrimowa
- Silver Medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1979)
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Works
Pushkin Memorial (1959 with MA Minkus ), Rostov-on-Don
Pushkin Monument (1966), Petrozavodsk
Academician Michail Michailowitsch Schulz (1969)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Государственный Русский музей представляет: Александр Матвеев и его школа. Альманах. Вып. 84 . Palace Editions, St. Petersburg 2005, ISBN 5-93332-167-2 .
- ↑ a b c d e RUSARTNET: Gavriil Schultz (accessed on March 19, 2018).
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SURNAME | Schulz, Gawriil Alexandrovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шульц, Гавриил Александрович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian sculptor and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1903 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnoye on the Volga |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1984 |
Place of death | Moscow |