Boris Oskarovich Fredman-Clusel ( 1878 - 1959 ) - Russian sculptor.
| Fredman clusel Boris Oskarovich | |
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| Date of Birth | April 27, 1878 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg , Russian empire |
| Date of death | December 30, 1959 ( 81) |
| Place of death | Cairo , Egypt |
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 | The sculpture "Bride of the Nile" in the fountain of the Rosary of Nuzha Park in Alexandria |
Biography
Born April 27, 1878 in St. Petersburg in the family of a merchant of the 2nd guild - a Swedish citizen Oscar-Karl Fredman and Natalia Clusel (from a French noble family).
He graduated from the second real school in St. Petersburg. In 1894-1897 he studied at the Central School of Technical Drawing , then - at the Imperial Academy of Arts with M. A. Chistyakov and M. P. Popov . He continued his studies at the sculpture department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm (1898-1900), at the art school in Karlsruhe and later in Paris .
In 1907, on the instructions of the company Faberge [1], Fredman-Clusel worked in England at the royal court, where he performed minor works of wax. In May 1910, he held at the Paris Hébrard Gallery an exhibition (“Ballet in Sculpture”) of nearly sixty bronze statuettes dedicated to the opening of the Russian ballet season. [1] In the years 1910-1917 he worked in St. Petersburg and in Moscow. He worked mainly as a portrait sculptor, helped A. M. Opekushin in work on the monument to Alexander III in Moscow. Performed by order of the Imperial theaters bronze figures of artists. In 1916 he executed the sculptural decoration of the chapel on the grave of actor K. A. Varlamov at the cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent in St. Petersburg.
Fredman-Clusel was a member of the Partnership of Artists in St. Petersburg ; participated in the activities of the Mussar’s Mondays; held a solo exhibition in the Lemersie Gallery in Moscow . Participated in the 1st sculpture exhibition in Petrograd (1922), the exhibition "10 years of the Maly Theater" in Moscow (1927).
After the October Revolution , in 1918-1919 he worked in Stockholm , in 1919 he moved to Paris . He taught at the National School of Decorative Arts and exhibited in Paris salons, became a holder of the Legion of Honor (1924). In 1927 he was consecrated into Freemasonry in the Parisian Russian box " Astrea ".
In 1929 he settled in Cairo (district of Ezbekia). He was a professor and head of the department of sculpture at the faculty of fine arts of Cairo University named after King Fuad. He founded the Higher School of Sculpture in Cairo, where he taught for 12 years. He opened and headed the gallery of modern fine arts "Ehnator". He created many portraits in Egypt, as well as a number of park and monumental sculptures, including a monument to King Fuad I in Alexandria, a bas-relief of St. George on the top stairs of the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George in Cairo and the bust of the founder of the Coptic Museum Simayka Pasha.
He died on December 30, 1959 in Cairo. He was married to the Bolshoi Theater dancer Maria Gorshkova , a friend of Anna Pavlova .
Works
- The creations of Boris Oskarovich Fredman-Clusel are presented at the Museum of Theater and Music in St. Petersburg , the Luxembourg Museum in Paris and the British Museum in London .
- His collection of sculptures is kept in the vaults of the Museum of Fine Arts in Gezira ( Egypt ).
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Literature
- Serkov A.I. Russian Freemasonry. 1731-2000 Encyclopedic Dictionary. - M.: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2001.