Issaak Abramowitsch Mendelewitsch

Issaak Abramovich Mendelevich ( Russian Исаак Абрамович Менделевич ; born November 16 ^{. Jul} / 28. November  1887 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 9. September 1952 ) was a Russian sculptor .

Life

Mendelevich came from a Jewish family. He studied 1909-1911 in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and then studied classical sculpture in Rome . He was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AChRR). He took advice from Anna Semyonovna Golubkina .

Mendelevich began with free compositions. This is how Das Lachen (1911), Der Traum (1914) and Der Frühling (1916) came about . The October Revolution was followed by The Smiling Red Army Soldier , The Pilots and The Three Generations . He also created statues of famous people: Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1914), Isaak Brodsky (1914), Alexei Ivanovich Swirski (1916), Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1916) and after the October Revolution , Victor Hugo , Prow Mikhailovich Sadowski (1918), Karl Liebknecht , Rosa Luxemburg , Michail Wassiljewitsch Frunze (1922), Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Zjurupa (1926–1927), Semjon Michailowitsch Budjonny (1927), Felix Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky (1936), Michail Michailowitsch Gromow (1938), Wladimir Iwanowitsch Nemantschenko (1942) Michail Michailowitsch Tarchanow and Akaki Alexejewitsch Chorava . He also worked for the theater , created masks , allegorical sculptures and actor portraits .

Chkalov Monument, Nizhny Novgorod

At Lenin's program of monumental propaganda Mendelevich involved with a number of monumental statues for monuments in Russian cities. This is how a statue of Lenin was created for one of the first monuments to be erected in Ufa in 1924. In 1939 the chairman of the commission for the Lenin monuments Sergei Merkurov came to Ufa to check the status of the monument. He decided that Mendelevich's Lenin was no longer enough, so that he was moved to the site of the later Hydraulika plant and Merkurov's Lenin made of concrete was placed on the monument. When this fell into disrepair, a granite replacement was decided in 1987 , but not implemented due to lack of financial means. In 2011 an exact copy of the Merkurov Lenin statue by the Ufa sculptor Chalit Galimullin was erected with funding from private sponsors in the presence of the chairman of the KPRF Gennady Andreyevich Syuganov . Mendelevich made another statue of Lenin in 1927. Monumental statues by Nikolai Ernestowitsch Bauman , Grigori Konstantinowitsch Ordzhonikidze and Sergei Alexejewitsch Tschaplygin followed . For the statue of the aviator Valery Pavlovich Tschkalow for the monument in what is now Nizhny Novgorod by the architects Ivan Georgievich Taranov and Viktor Semjonowitsch Andreev (1942), Mendelevich received the Stalin Prize, 2nd class, in 1939 .

Mendelevich was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery. The well-known sculptor Vladimir Efimovich Zigal admired Mendelevich.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Еврейский мемориал: Менделевич Исаак (accessed March 6, 2018).
2. ↑ Artinvestment.ru: Mendelevich Isaak Abramovich (accessed March 6, 2018).
3. ↑ Сквер Ленина (accessed March 6, 2018).
4. ↑ Памятник Ленину открыл Зюганов (accessed March 6, 2018).
5. ↑ Цигаль В .: Не переставая удивляться . Moscow 1986, p. 38-43 .