Moscow Sculpture Park
The Sculpture Park is a park of the Tretyakov Gallery in the Russian capital Moscow .
It is located next to the Central House of the Artist exhibition center (Zentralny dom chudoschnika, ZDCh) on Krymsky wal Street, opposite the main entrance to Gorky Park .
In the sculpture park, which was founded in 1992, numerous statues from the time of the Soviet Union , which were previously located in various places in Moscow, are displayed. These include monuments to Felix Dzerzhinsky (sculptor Yevgeny Wuchetich 1958, formerly on Lubyanka Square), Josef Stalin ( Sergei Merkurow 1938, first at the Soviet pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939 , then up to the de-Stalinization around 1960 in Izmailovo Park ). The monument to Maxim Gorky was also located here from 2005-2017 ( Ivan Shadr , completed by Vera Muchina in 1951, before 2005 and from 2017 on the square in front of the Belarusian train station ).
A Love Hate sculpture by the German artist Mia Florentine Weiss has been in the sculpture park since July 13, 2019 .
Coordinates: 55 ° 43 ′ 58 ″ N , 37 ° 36 ′ 19 ″ E
Web links
- The legacy of a city Süddeutsche Zeitung