Vera Ignatievna Mukhina

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Wera Ignatjewna Muchina ( Russian Вера Игнатьевна Мухина , scientific transliteration Vera Ignat'evna Muchina , Latvian Vera Muhina ; * June 19 jul. / July 1,  1889 greg. In Riga , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † October 6, 1953 in Moscow ) was a Soviet sculptor.

Life

Muchina on a Soviet postage stamp

Muchina came from an upper-class family. She studied in Moscow, went to Paris in 1912 to the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and became a student of Antoine Bourdelle , one of Rodin's assistant . Then she went to Italy and studied the art of the Renaissance there , with a special focus on sculpture. Shortly before the outbreak of World War I, she returned to Russia , where she became enthusiastic about Lenin's ideas .

One of Muchina's first works is entitled “The Flame of the Revolution” (1919). The artist, highly esteemed by Lunacharsky , People's Commissar for Education , received many public commissions in the 1930s and 1940s.

Her best-known work is the monumental sculpture “ Worker and Collective Farm Wife ” made of stainless steel, which crowned the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris . The heroic couple storming into the sky with hammer and sickle was exhibited close to the ground in Moscow ( All-Russian Exhibition Center ) until 2003 and, after extensive restoration, was erected there again at the end of 2009, now on a higher pedestal. The monumental couple has served as the symbol of the Russian film company Mosfilm since 1947 .

Muchina's husband Alexei Samkow discovered the preparation Grawidan , which supposedly caused feelings of happiness and which she is said to have used very often.

Prizes and awards

literature

Sculpture “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” at the north entrance of the All-Russian Exhibition Center
  • Mjuda N. Jablonskaja: Russian artists ("Women artists of Russia's new age"). Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1990, ISBN 3-7857-0575-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ, Moscow Monitor, December 15, 2009
  2. ↑ The Happiness of Communism by Injection . Website of the ZDF magazine Aspects.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Vera Muchina in the Great Russian Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 31, 2018 (Russian).

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personal data
SURNAME Muchina, Vera Ignatievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мухина, Вера Игнатьевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet sculptress
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1953
Place of death Moscow