Alexey Evgenievich Eletsky ( 1917 - 1997 ) - Soviet and Russian sculptor [1] , member of the Union of Artists of the USSR; one of the best domestic portrait painters.
| Eletsky Alexey Evgenievich | |
|---|---|
 Yeletsky at work in his workshop | |
| Date of Birth | May 18, 1917 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow Russian empire |
| Date of death | 1997 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia |
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Biography
Born May 18, 1917 in Moscow.
He began his career in the Moscow workshops of sculptors A. M. Lavinsky and V. A. Andreev . In the 1930s, during the construction of the Moscow Canal, Eletsky, together with Lavinsky, created bas-reliefs for the building of gateway No. 8, which is located near the Volokolamsk highway and the hospital of the Ministry of Railways in Moscow. In 1939, he took part in the work to increase the sculpture of the “Worker” (up to 17 meters) by V. A. Andreev, which was later installed on the building of the USSR pavilion, created by architects B. M. Iofan and K. S. Alabyan for the World exhibitions in New York in 1939.
Also in 1930, Yeletsky was engaged in academic drawing. He attended lectures on anatomy and independently dissected at Moscow University on Mokhovaya. After World War II, Alexei Evgenievich worked as a painter at the Moscow Association of Artists , he painted in oil. But later, from the beginning of the 1950s, he devoted his life only to sculpture.
He died in 1997 in Moscow.
Proceedings
A.E. Yeletsky created a large number of busts and plaques to prominent people of the USSR and Russia.
Among his works: [2]
- monument-bust to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (marble, 1954, Istra);
- monument-bust to the revolutionary Viktor Pavlovich Nogin (bronze, 1961, Noginsk);
- monument-bust to Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev (alabaster, 1967, Vladimir);
- monument-bust of Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (marble, 1968, Chisinau);
- monument-bust to Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev (marble, 1969, Vladimir ;,
- portrait of Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy (bronze, 1959, Literary Museum);
- portrait of Kliment Voroshilov (marble, 1960);
- Portrait of Major General Vladimir Vasilievich Golubev (marble, 1955, Zhukovsky Scientific and Memorial Museum, Moscow);
- Portrait of Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin (marble, 1957);
- Portrait of Valentina Tereshkova (gypsum, 1963);
- portrait of Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev (marble, 1975-8, Muranovo Museum-Estate, Moscow Region);
- the memorial "Sorrow" (marble, 1964, in memory of the Soviet delegation, who died in a plane crash in Yugoslavia);
- a memorial plaque in honor of Fyodor Chaliapin (marble, 1957, Moscow);
- memorial plaque to the writer Boris Gorbatov (13 Begovaya Street, Moscow);
- tombstone of the composer Vladimir G. Zakharov (marble, 1958);
- tombstone of Army General Sergey Stepanovich Maryakhin (Novodevichy Cemetery);
- tombstone of Marshal of the Soviet Union Pavel Fedorovich Batitsky (Novodevichy cemetery);
- tombstone of Air Marshal Fyodor Yakovlevich Falaleyev (Novodevichy Cemetery);
- tombstone of the writer Nikolai Dmitrievich Teleshov (Novodevichy cemetery);
- tombstone of the writer Fedor Ivanovich Panferov (Novodevichy cemetery);
- gravestone of literary critic Rozanov Ivan Nikanorovich (Novodevichy cemetery);
- tombstone of Fyodor Chaliapin (Novodevichy cemetery) [3] .
Photo Gallery
- Novodevichy cemetery
Zakharov V.G.
Falaleev F. Ya.
Maryakhin S. S.
Teleshov N. D.
Panferov F.I.