Levon Konstantinowitsch Lazarew

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Levon Konstantinowitsch Lasarew ( Russian Левон Константинович Лазарев ; also Lasarev ; born January 21, 1928 in Tbilisi , † February 25, 2004 in Saint Petersburg ) was a sculptor and painter from Georgia .

Life

Lazarev is sometimes referred to as a Russian artist because he lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He studied at the Academy of Arts and Crafts named after the sculptor Vera Muchina and has been a member of the Russian Artists' Association since 1957. He sends exhibitions in St. Petersburg, but also in Austria and the USA. Works by him are u. a. can be seen in the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg) and the Armenian State Picture Gallery ( Yerevan ).

Work (selection)

Lewon Konstantinowitsch Lasarew: Beethoven

Lazarev created several monuments in Saint Petersburg, including a. for the architect Giacomo Quarenghi (Russian: Dschakomo Kwarengi; it stands in front of the main building of the University of Economics and Finance, the former central bank, the construction of which Quarenghi had started in 1783), for the firefighters in Leningrad, besieged in 1941–1944, and a 3 m high Bronze statue for the physicist and civil rights activist AD Sakharov (on Sakharov Square in front of the main building of the Academy of Sciences), as well as bronzes for the microbiologist Louis Pasteur (Russian: Lui Paster), the singer FI Chalyapin , the conductor EA Mrawinsky and the ballet Impresario SP Djagilew (in Paris since 2003). Lazarew is also the creator of a Goethe bust (Russian: Gete). It has stood on Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg since 1999 . A Bach bust is to be set up in front of the Lutheran Petri Church on Nevsky Prospect . Lazarev made a model for this in 2003. A bronze bust of Beethoven created by Lasarew in 1981 has been in the garden of the Beethoven House in Bonn since 2000 .

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bibliography

  • P. Yefimov: "Young Sculptors of Leningrad" (Sovetsky Khudozhnik Publishers, Moscow, 1980)
  • "Levon Lazarev" from the Artists of Leningrad series (Yerevan, 1982)
  • Article in the magazine Sovetskoye Iskusstvo (1986, No. 2, pp 61-63)
  • M. Dzhigarkhanian: "Master and Time" in the magazine Tvorchestvo (1988, No. 9, pp 11-14)
  • V. Perfilyev: "Easel Sculpture of Leningrad" in the magazine Sovetskoye Iskusstvo (1989, No. 8, pp 16, 17)
  • Catalog “Levon Konstantinovich Lazarev; Sculpture, Graphic Art "(Sovetsky Khudozhnik Publishers, Moscow, 1990)
  • I. Verbova: "Predestination" in the newspaper Vecherniaya Moskva (October 5, 1990)
  • Y. Ter-Gabrielian: "To Live in Art" in Veruyem, newspaper of the Armenian parish in St. Petersburg (1993)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://international.finec.ru/
  2. ↑ Johnson's Russia List (May 5, 2003)
  3. ↑ Pravda (English version of January 13, 2003)
  4. ↑ http://www.saint-petersburg.com/monuments/Goethe.asp
  5. ^ A Bach memorial for the Newski Prospect, Hamburger Abendblatt , June 18, 2003, accessed November 10, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Lazarew, Levon Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lasarev, Levon K .; Лазарев, Левон Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2004
Place of death St. Petersburg