Leonid Lwowitsch Berlin

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Leonid Lwowitsch Berlin ( Russian Леонид Львович Берлин ; born November 13, 1925 in Moscow ; † January 2, 2001 there ) was a Soviet sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

Berlin's stepfather was the electrical engineer Lew Borissowitsch Berlin. Berlin only learned at the age of 16 that his father was the activist of the Iranian communist movement Awetis Sultan-Sade , who was shot during the Great Terror in 1938 . The neighbor of the Berlin family in the shared apartment Michail Naumowitsch Raichinstein (1879–1947) was the curator of the sculptures in the Tretyakov gallery . He recognized the artistic talent of Berlin and registered him with a drawing group in the Pionierhaus . After the start of the German-Soviet War , Berlin and the family were evacuated to Chelyabinsk . In the Maly Theater evacuated there , Berlin worked as a pupil in the dummy workshop .

Berlin studied 1943-1949 at the Sculpture Faculty of the Moscow Surikov - Art Institute in Pawel Jakowlewitsch Pawlinow and Alexander Matveyev Terentievich . After Matveev's dismissal, Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Tomski supervised Berlin's diploma thesis. On the recommendation of Tomsky and Gawriil Alexandrowitsch Schulz , Berlin was accepted as a member of the USSR Artists' Union in 1950.

In 1954 Berlin met the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet , whose collection of poems he has now illustrated . He received the silver medal for it at the International Book Art Exhibition in Leipzig in 1959 . He participated in the production of the films Optimistitscheskaja Tragedija (1963), Andrej Rublev (1966) and Skasanije o Rustame after Firdausi's Shāhnāme (1971) with.

Berlin created the tombstone for the poet Ilja Lwowitsch Selwinski, who died in 1968 .

On February 28, 1974, Berlin wanted to organize a working evening together with B. Nemetschik and K. Stepanow in exhibition hall 3 of the Artists' Union at Moscow's Kuznetsky Most 11 to show and discuss his welding work for the first time. However, the evening was banned. The planned one-day exhibition was sealed, and Berlin's welding work was removed and thrown over the fence of its dacha as an optimistic tragedia in the snow. Berlin went to court and was right. The original judge BI Schalagin was soon released, and the director of the exhibition halls MS Denisov was also dismissed. The Moscow Artists Union newspaper was supposed to publish an apology, which never happened, and Berlin received 1,800 rubles for restoring its work.

Berlin designed the Orechowo , Rimskaja , Bitzewski Park and Krasnogwardeiskaja stations of the Moscow Metro .

Berlin took part in more than 50 collective exhibitions. including the retrospective 1957–1987 in Moscow 1987, the transformation in London 1989 with new art from the USSR and The Other Art 1956–1976 in the Tretyakov Gallery 1990 on the history of Soviet nonconformism . He carried out six personal exhibitions, most recently in 1999 with his own works from the Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum.

Berlin was buried in the Trojekurowo cemetery in Moscow with his father Avetis Sultan-Sade.

Berlin's works can be found in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum , the Pushkin Museum , the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Park of the Art Museum of the City of Seoul and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick (New Jersey) .

Works

  • IL Selvinski's tombstone, Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow

  • Krasnogwardeiskaya Station, Moscow Metro (1985)

  • Rimskaya Station, Moscow Metro

  • Rimskaya Station, Moscow Metro

  • Rimskaya Station, Moscow Metro

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Г. Сидур, М. Сидур, Московский государственный музей Вадима Сидура: Леонид Берлин (accessed October 29, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c На 76-м году жизни скончался известный скульптор Леонид Берлин (accessed October 29, 2019).
  3. ↑ Марина Чегодаева: Трещины по живым телам . In: Nezavisimaya Gazeta . February 16, 2001 ( [1] [accessed October 29, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c Объединение московских скульпторов: БЕРЛИН ЛЕОНИД ЛЬВОВИЧ (accessed October 29, 2019).
  5. ↑ Могила И. Л. Сельвинского на Новодевичьем кладбище (accessed October 28, 2019).
  6. ↑ Сергей Хачатуров: В МОСКОВСКОМ МУЗЕЕ ВАДИМА СИДУРА ОТКРЫТА ВЫСТАВКА КРУПНЕЙШЕГО РОССИЙСКОГО СКУЛЬПТОРА ЛЕОНИДА БЕРЛИНА (accessed on 29 October 2019).
  7. ^ Berlins grave (accessed October 29, 2019).
  8. ↑ Григорий Анисимов: ГАРМОНИЯ И КОНТРАСТ ЛЕОНИДА БЕРЛИНА (accessed October 29, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Berlin, Leonid Lwowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Берлин, Леонид Львович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet or Russian sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2001
Place of death Moscow