Valeria Ivanovna Morozova ( October 5, 1926 , Lebedyan , Tambov province - April 2015 , Moscow ) - Soviet sculptor, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1960).
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Biography
She was born in the city of Lebedyan, Tambov Province (now Lipetsk Region) in the family of a serviceman Ivan Andrianovich Morozov and elementary school teacher Varvara Mikhailovna Morozova (ur. Konstantinova). Childhood and youth of Valeria Morozova passed in his hometown. In 1941, the family of party worker Morozov was evacuated to Uzbekistan, where the Morozovs lived until 1942 and returned to Lebedyan. After graduating from high school No. 1 V.I. Morozova moved to Moscow, where by that time her parents and older sister were living (her father was sent to the post of director of the educational institution at the First Print Factory in Moscow). In Moscow, Valeria Morozova entered the Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, where she studied with the People's Artist of the USSR, Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Arts and the winner of three Stalin Prizes MG Manizer . In 1952, Morozova graduated from the institute [1].
Under the direction of the architect A.N. Dushkina V.I. Morozova made decorative inserts on the facade of a residential building on Prospekt Mira, designed a tombstone on the pedestal of the Academy of Metallurgy A. Baykova . In the early 1950s, Morozova performed many reliefs and was the author of the figure of a schoolgirl in the sculpture group "Stalin's Constitution" in the central pavilion of VDNH. In 1960, for the sculpture of V.I. Morozova's “Bread”, exhibited at the exhibition “Soviet Russia” in the Manege, Morozova was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1970-1980 Morozova created decorative sculptures for playgrounds in Moscow, in the cities of the Urals and Kuban, was fond of ceramics.
Most of the small-format works from his workshop, V.I. Morozova presented to her hometown in 2000, and they are carefully stored in the Lebedyansky Museum of Local Lore [1] . In 2015, the museum’s collection was replenished with another 14 sculptural small-format works transferred by the daughter of V.I. Morozovoj I.V. Korostyleva [2] .
His favorite themes are labor, motherhood, childhood, and fairy tales.
Works are in collections
Museum of Local Lore P.N. Chermensky (Lebedyan, Lipetsk region) [2]
Family
Bochkov Vasily Ivanovich (1924-2003) - husband, fashion designer, sculptor.
Korostyleva Irina Vasilievna - daughter, architect, employee of the Mosproject-2 Institute, died on October 1, 2016.
Korostylev Mikhail Dmitrievich - son-in-law, children's doctor.