Vladimir Efimovich Zigal

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Vladimir Yefimovich Zigal ( Russian Владимир Ефимович Цигаль ; born September 4 . Jul / 17th September  1917 greg. In Odessa , † 4. July 2013 in Moscow ) was a Russian sculptor .

Life

Zigal, son of the Jewish engineer Jefim Dawidowitsch Zigal (1883–1948) and his wife Adel Iossifowna (1890–1936), grew up in Penza and attended the Belinsky grammar school there. Then he began studying in Moscow at the Surikow Art Institute, which emerged from the WChUTEIN , under Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood , Alexander Terentjewitsch Matwejew and Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Domogazki .

After the start of the German-Soviet War , Zigal volunteered for service in the Red Army in 1942 . Until 1944 he was a military artist in the Soviet Navy . He took part in the landings in Novorossiysk and Kerch . In 1945 he was sent to Berlin by the Art Affairs Committee to work with Lew Jefimowitsch Kerbel in Berlin-Tiergarten , Seelow and Küstrin to erect monuments for the fallen of the Red Army. The Soviet memorial with the obelisk on the King's Bastion of the Küstrin Fortress was removed in 2008. Zigal then continued his studies and graduated as a sculptor in 1948. Since 1947 he was represented at all Russian and many foreign exhibitions.

Zigal's first major works were monuments to Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko (1952, Moscow) and Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowski (1952). Zigal became a member of the CPSU in 1952 . He made the Lenin memorials in Kazan and Ulyanovsk (1953–1954). He created portraits of Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow (1959), Iossif Moissejewitsch Tschaikow (1965), Mikhail Arkadjewitsch Svetlow (1965), Rockwell Kent (1967), Dmitri Borissowitsch Kabalewski and also of his children Tatjana and Alexander (1960).

In the spring of 1963, Zigal's memorial stone for Dmitri Mikhailovich Karbyshev was erected in the Mauthausen memorial . A second Karbyshev monument was erected in Moscow (1980). In 1968, together with the architects Jakow Borissowitsch Belopolski and Wladimir Iossifowitsch Chawin , Zigal built the Museum of the Polish- Soviet in the village of Lenino ( Horki district ), where the Jews of the local ghetto were shot by the local police and the German occupation in June 1942 Combat group in memory of the Battle of Lenino of the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union together with Soviet forces in October 1943 during the Smolensk Operation . In 1969 Zigal created a memorial for Anne Frank . In 1971, a memorial to the Russian partisan of the Resistance Fyodor Andrianowitsch Poletajew, who was killed on February 2, 1945 in the Battle of Cantalupo Ligure , was erected in Ryazan Zigal, and in 1972 the monument to Sergei Alexandrovich Yessenin in Moscow . 1972–1982 Zigal created the memorial in Novorossiysk for the heroes of the Russian Civil War and the German-Soviet War at the site of the landing of the Soviet forces in 1943 during the North Caucasian Operation . 1981–1982 Zigal created a monument for Richard Sorge (with the architect RG Aliyev and the engineer Yuri Dmitrijewitsch Dubow) in Baku and in 1985 another in Moscow. In 1990 Zigal created the monument to Hồ Chí Minh (with the architect RR Kananin) in Moscow and in 2000 the monument to Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Tomski in Moscow. He also created the sculpture of St. George on the dome of the Senate Palace of the Moscow Kremlin . In 2002, Zigal's memorial for Fridtjof Nansen was created .

Zigal's works can be found in many domestic and foreign museums, especially the Tretyakov Gallery and the Central Museum of the Russian Armed Forces . Exhibitions of Zigal's works took place in Poland , Czechoslovakia , Bulgaria , Hungary , Austria and Morocco . Since 1956, Zigal has traveled to more than 50 countries including Italy , France , USA , United Kingdom , Netherlands , Portugal , Japan , India , Nepal and Vietnam .

Zigal was married and had two children. His son Alexander also became a sculptor. Zigal's brother Viktor Jefimowitsch Zigal was a painter and also Zigal's nephew Sergei Viktorovich Zigal . Zigal was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery near the grave of Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich .

Honors, prizes, memberships

Works

  • Soviet memorial, Berlin-Tiergarten

  • Monument to the fallen, Seelower Heights memorial

  • Soviet cenotaph on the bastion King of Fortress Küstrin (removed in 2008)

  • Karbyshev memorial stone, Mauthausen

  • Malaya Zemlya Memorial , Novorossiysk

Web links

Commons : Wladimir Eefimowitsch Zigal  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Tsigal ', Vladimir Efimovich (accessed March 7, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c d e RusArtNet: Vladimir Tsigal (accessed March 7, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b c d Энциклопедический словарь: Цигаль Владимир Ефимович (accessed March 7, 2018).
  4. ↑ Execution of Jews in Lenino (accessed March 8, 2018).
  5. ↑ Ленино: Музей советско-польского боевого содружества (accessed March 8, 2018).
  6. ↑ Памятник Федору Полетаеву (accessed March 8, 2018).
  7. ^ Memorial "Malaya Zemlya" (accessed March 8, 2018).
  8. ↑ Памятник разведчику Рихарду Зорге (Баку) (accessed March 8, 2018).
  9. ↑ Памятник скульптору Томскому в Москве на Крымском Валу (accessed March 8, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Zigal, Vladimir Efimovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Цигаль, Владимир Ефимович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet or Russian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2013
Place of death Moscow