Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin ( September 19 ( October 2 ) 1917 , Moscow , RSFSR - May 18, 1997 , St. Petersburg , Russia ) - Soviet and Russian sculptor .
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| Birth name | Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin | |||||||||
| Date of Birth | October 2, 1917 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | Moscow , RSFSR | |||||||||
| Date of death | May 18, 1997 (aged 79) | |||||||||
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| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia | |||||||||
| Genre | sculptor | |||||||||
| Study | LIZSA named after I.E. Repin | |||||||||
| Style | socialist realism | |||||||||
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Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR ( 1962 ; corresponding member 1958 ). People's Artist of the USSR ( 1963 ). Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1977 ). Laureate of the Lenin Prize ( 1958 ) and the State Prize of the RSFSR named after I. E. Repin ( 1986 ). Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg ( 1997 ). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1944 .
Biography
Mikhail Anikushin was born on September 19 ( October 2 ), 1917 in Moscow, in a working class family.
He studied at the I.E. Repin LINAS from 1937 to 1947 with a break for the war years ( 1941 - 1945 ):
- 1935 - 1936 - with V. S. Bogatyrev in preparatory classes at the All-Russian Academy of Arts.
- 1936 - 1937 - studied at the Secondary School under V.A. Kh. , With G.A. Schulz .
- 1937 - 1941 and 1945 - 1947 - with V. A. Sinaisky and A. T. Matveev at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
From the very beginning of World War II, he joined the militia; since November 1941, he fought in the ranks of the Red Army .
One of the sculptor's most famous works is a monument to A.S. Pushkin , erected in Leningrad in 1957 .
Anikushin is a representative of a classical, traditionalist school, the author of a number of famous images of A. S. Pushkin .
Full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR ( 1962 ). Member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU (1966-1976).
M.K. Anikushin died on May 18, 1997 in St. Petersburg. He was buried in the literary bridges necropolis of the Volkovsky cemetery .
Awards and titles
- Hero of Socialist Labor ( September 30, 1977 ).
- two orders of Lenin ( 1967 , September 30, 1977 ).
- Order of the October Revolution .
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree ( 1985 ).
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor ( October 1, 1987 ).
- Order of Friendship of Peoples ( September 28, 1992 ) - for outstanding services in the field of fine art [1] .
- medals.
- Lenin Prize (1958) - for the monument to A. S. Pushkin in Leningrad on the square of Arts.
- The RSFSR State Prize named after I. E. Repin (1986) - for the series of sculptural portraits “Our Contemporary”: “Weaver V. N. Golubev ”, “Worker V. S. Chicherov ”, “Ballerina G. S. Ulanova ”, “ Composer G.V. Sviridov . "
- People's Artist of the USSR ( 1963 ).
- Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg ( 1997 ).
- Honorary Doctor of St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise since 1994.
Family
- Wife - Maria Timofeevna Litovchenko (1917-2003) - sculptor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts , people's artist of the Russian Federation .
Memory
- On October 2, 2007 , a memorial plaque was installed on the house where Anikushin lived ( Pesochnaya embankment , building 16).
- The name of the sculptor is Anikushinsky Square on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt - in this square his sculptural composition "Friendship" ("Dancing Girls") is installed - and Anikushinsky Alley , running from this square to Vyazemsky Lane , where he worked [3] [4] [5] .
- The name of the sculptor also bears the art school of the city of Kronstadt .
- The name of the sculptor is the small planet No. 3358 [6] .
- In Vyazemsky Lane in front of the workshop building on September 12, 2013 a monument was erected by Nikolai Kraukhin.
Major works
- “The Victorious Warrior” (thesis, 1947)
- Monument to A. S. Pushkin (a seated figure at the Pushkinskaya metro station in Leningrad , 1954)
- Monument to A. S. Pushkin on the Arts Square in Leningrad (bronze, granite, 1949-1957; architect Petrov V. A .; opened in 1957)
- Monument to A. S. Pushkin in Tashkent (1974)
- Portrait of V. M. Bekhterev (1960)
- Portrait of the artist Yu. M. Yuriev , bronze, granite, 1961; necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
- Portrait of the astronaut G. S. Titov (1961)
- Monument to V.I. Lenin on Moscow Square in Leningrad (1970, architect V.A. Kamensky )
- Monument to V. I. Lenin in Turku , Finland (1977) [1]
- Portrait of the General Aircraft Designer A. S. Yakovlev (1975)
- The memorial “To the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad” (opened in 1975, architects V. A. Kamensky and S. B. Speransky )
- Portrait of the composer G.V. Sviridov (1980)
- Portrait of artist N.K. Cherkasov (1975) necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
- Monument at the grave of R. M. Glier at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
- The bust of designer N. D. Kuznetsov was installed on August 19, 1986 in the Kuznetsov Square in Samara .
- Monument to A. S. Pushkin ( Chernaya Rechka metro station (St. Petersburg) 1982)
- The composition "World" in the Nagasaki Peace Park .
- Monument to G. S. Ulanova in the Moscow Victory Park (opened May 30, 1984).
- Monument to V.I. Lenin in the central square of Nakhodka (July 12, 1984).
- Monument to Vera Mukhina in Prechistensky Lane in Moscow (1989).
- Monuments to A.S. Pushkin (1993) and M.I. Kutuzov (1995) in Kaliningrad .
- Monument to A.P. Chekhov in Kamergersky Lane in Moscow (1997).
- Monument to A.P. Chekhov in the city of Chekhov . The three-meter bronze figure of the writer is the first work of the sculptor dedicated to Chekhov.
- Monument to the Sailors and the creators of the Russian fleet in St. Petersburg (opened November 2, 1996)
Monument to A. S. Pushkin in the Arts Square
Statue of A. S. Pushkin in the lobby of the Pushkinskaya metro station
Monument to Lenin on Moscow Square
See also
- Anikushinskaya Alley
Notes
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 28, 1992 No. 1140 “On awarding Anikushin M.K. with the Order of Friendship of Peoples”
- ↑ On the 90th anniversary of Mikhail Anikushin (inaccessible link)
- ↑ In St. Petersburg, the grand opening of Anikushinsky Square on Aptekarsky Island was held // Fontanka.ru, 17/11/2000
- ↑ Leonova N.G. House in Vyazemsky Lane: Workshop of the sculptor M.K. Anikushin - St. Petersburg, 1999.
- ↑ Erofeev A., who gave us Pushkin // Parliamentary Newspaper, # 127 (2195), 03.10.2007. Archived on October 6, 2008.
- ↑ Dictionary of minor planet names - Lutz D. Schmadel, International Astronomical Union - Google Books
Literature
- Pribulskaya G.I. Anikushin / Photos by V.V. Strekalov. - L .; M .: Art , 1961. - 48, [24] p. - 20,000 copies.
- Zamoshkin A.I. M.K. Anikushin. L., 1979.
- Alyansky Yu. L. In a workshop on the Petrograd side (M.K. Anikushin). - M .: Soviet artist , 1985. - 144 p. - ( Stories about artists ). - 35,000 copies.
- "Soviet sculpture." Exhibition of new arrivals. State Russian Museum. - L. 1989. - S. 18.
- Krivdina, O. A. Anikushin, Mikhail Konstantinovich // Pages of memory. Reference and biographical collection. 1941-1945. Artists of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Union of Artists are veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Book 1. St. Petersburg: Petropolis, 2014.S. 40-44.