Michail Adolfowitsch Minkus

Michail Adolfowitsch Minkus

Mikhail Adolfowitsch Minkus , also Moisei Adolfowitsch Minkus , ( Russian Михаил (Моисей) Адольфович Минкус ; born December 12 ^{. Jul} / 25. December  1905 ^greg. In Odessa , † 31 August 1963 in Turku ) was a Russian architect .

Life

Michail Minkus was the son of the architect Adolf Minkus (1870–1947) and his wife Klara Isaakowna nee. Stiefelmann, lecturer at the Odessa Jewish University. His uncle was the architect FA Troupjanski (1874–1949). The architect JO Rubantschik was his cousin.

Minkus first studied architecture at the Odessa Art School and then from 1925–1930 at Vchutein in Leningrad (successor to the Imperial Art Academy ), where AJ Belogrud , LN Benois , IA Fomin , WG Hel Reich , LW Rudnew , WA Shchuko and SS Serafimov taught. Even before and during his studies, he took part in architecture competitions. After graduating, Minkus went to Moscow . He first worked at WA Shchuko and IA Fomin and then at PA Golosow .

Great stone bridge in Moscow

Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow

Outstanding examples of Minkus' building activity include the State Theater of the Turkmen SSR in Ashkhabad (1934 together with IA Fomin) and the Great Stone Bridge in Moscow (1936–1938 together with WG Hel Reich and WA Shtschuko). During the German-Soviet war , Minkus built defensive structures near Moscow.

In 1947–1953, Minkus and WG Helreich realized the project for an administration high-rise on Smolensker Platz, one of the first high-rise buildings in Moscow, which the USSR's Foreign Ministry moved into and which - as one of the Seven Sisters - a typical representative of Socialist Classicism (also Stalin- Called Empire ). In 1952 Minkus built the Moscow Botanical Garden subway station (since 1966, Prospekt Mira ) together with WG Hel Reich and the sculptor G. I. Motowilow .

Minkus designed numerous memorial stones and monuments, and he drew the architecture of old Moscow (1934–1941).

Minkus was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery after his death in Turku .

Honors

• Stalin Prize (1949) for the construction of the Foreign Ministry in Moscow together with WG Hel Reich

literature

• RJ Chiger: Four architects . Architektura SSSR 1936, No. 1 (Russian).
• JA Kornfeld: Architectural Stalin Prize Winner 1941–1950 . Gos. Isd-wo Lit-ry po stroitelstwu i achitekture, Moscow 1953 (Russian).
• LW Warsar, JS Jaralow: MA Minkus . Stroiisdat, Moscow 1982 (Russian).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Минкус Михаил Адольфович. Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1969.
2. ↑ Alexander Weinstein: History of the prominent Odessa family Minkus ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian, accessed March 20, 2016). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Minkus Michail Adolfowitsch (Russian, accessed on March 20, 2016).