Yury Panov

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Jurij Panow ( Ukrainian Юрій Панов / Russian Юрий Панов ; * 1922 in Charkow , Ukraine ) is a painter and sculptor who, as a so-called "son of an enemy of the people" - his father, a Ukrainian writer, was shot by the NKVD in 1937 - initially as a youngster Man came to the Soviet Army in Siberia . There he was imprisoned for ten years because of caricatures, and then for another five years in a labor camp on the Baikal for objections to his release , until he was released under Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 and the rest of his life stayed on Lake Baikal in the village of Bolshaya Retschka (in German: Large river).

Life

Jurij Panow was born in 1922 in Kharkov, Ukraine . His father, a respected Ukrainian writer, brought him into contact with the works of many other nations in addition to domestic and Russian literature. When his father was arrested in 1934 on charges of being a “Ukrainian nationalist ” and “enemy of the Soviet power ”, Yuri was stigmatized as “the son of an enemy of the people”. After ten years of school he joined the Soviet army in a special unit for such "sons of enemies of the people", a garrison deep in Siberia under special observation by the NKVD . Harmless sketches that showed details of life in the barracks and that he sent to friends were viewed as caricatures - the mail was checked. He was tried for “anti-Soviet agitation ” and “ defamation of the Soviet Army”, where he was sentenced to ten years of forced labor and camp in Siberia at the age of 19 . (The "evidence", letters and drawings, were found by journalists from Irkutsk in the archives of the KGB (successor organization to the NKVD) in the trial files.)

After rehabilitation in 1956 under Nikita Khrushchev, who denounced Stalin's crimes and released all political prisoners , Panov tried to find work in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan . Since he was always confronted with the stigma of a former convict there, however , he was drawn back to Siberia, where his fate is nothing unusual. A first working as a forestry assistant followed evening classes, and after the pilot the studies as agricultural engineer specializing in timber industry .

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It is said of Jurij Panow that as a child he liked to draw, both with a pen and with a pencil. During the wedding of the USSR he painted posters and slogans for state propaganda for sale to the authorities. He painted oil paintings and watercolors with landscape motifs as well as still lifes and portraits “for pleasure” before he began to carve and restored old wooden houses. He still earns his living with advertising signs , but also by selling his pictures and sculptures to tourists.

A group of sculptures called “The Victims of Terror ”, the three-meter-high stelae with skulls, crosses, pistols, Ku Klux Klan masks, instruments of torture; Lenin - and Stalin portraits united front of his house, his most important work, begun in 1986 at the start of him Gorbachev - era . Each stele is made from a single tree trunk. With them he shows symbols of terror, perpetrators and victims from two millennia. Klaus Bednarz , who visited him on Lake Baikal in the 1990s, quotes him as saying: “Terror began two thousand years ago with the emergence of world religions . Since then, people have been killing themselves in the name of religion or for reasons of ideology . As Christianity spread across the earth, it promised all salvation, redemption, brotherhood, charity and the abolition of slavery . Later communism promised the same. People were killed in the name of Christianity and in the name of communism. I wanted to show that. "

literature

  • Klaus Bednarz: Ballad from Lake Baikal: Encounters with people and landscapes. Experience report, Europa-Verlag Berlin / Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-203-75504-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Bednarz: Ballad from Lake Baikal: Encounters with people and landscapes. Experience report, in: In the mirror of time. Reader's Digest, 2001, p. 334.

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personal data
SURNAME Panov, Yuri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Panov, Yuri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov , Ukraine