Mellup, Germain Janovna

Father Jan Eduardovich Mellup (1888-1941, in blockade ). The surname is formed from the name of the village of Mellupi, Latvia, from which Jan Eduardovich came. Mother Madeleine Geraldovna Bluchtger, daughter of an artist, architect, teacher of French at the university. ^[one]

• 1937 - graduated from ten years
• 1938 - entered the Academy of Arts at the sculpture faculty (prepared for admission by G. A. Schulz ).
• 1940 - participant of the Porcelain Exhibition in the Russian Museum
• 1942 - did not evacuate with the academy to Samarkand , but remained with her family in Leningrad . She worked at the Soyuztranspribor factory in militarized security. Later, she was evacuated with her sister's children and daughter Vasilisa to Kyrgyzstan on Lake Issyk-Kul , where she worked as a laborer on the Voroshilov collective farm.
• 1943 - moved to Kazan to her older sister.
• 1944 - convicted on false charges and sentenced to 5 years in forced labor camps. She spent 11 months in a Kharkov prison, after which she was sent to build the Vorkuta railway, but after reviewing the case she was released at 24 hours and returned to Kazan.
• 1945 - The Academy of Arts called Mellup to continue his studies.
• 1948 - graduated from the Academy (diploma in the workshop of A.T. Matveev and joined the Union of Artists (probably a candidate, in the Union of Artists since 1952)
• 1952-1954 - taught at the Yakutsk School of Music.
• 1965 - was with relatives in France
• 1967 - nominated for the title of "Honored Artist of the RSFSR" ^[1]

For the most part, she worked in a bas-relief .

Portraits

• V.K. Kyukhelbeker , A.A. Delvig , P.Ya. Chaadayev , G.R. Derzhavin , N.M. Karamzin , V.A. Zhukovsky .
• Tombstone of Vitali Bianchi. Remarkable figure of a grieving girl with a chipmunk on his shoulder. J. Ya. Mellup was one of the first students of Bianchi in his school of naturalists ^{[2] [3]} .

Sculptural restoration work

• Bas-reliefs in the Shuvalovsky Palace ^[4] .
• Frieze P.K. Klodt in the Marble Palace .
• 6 tympans of the Stroganov Palace .
• 4 figures of I. I. Terebnev in the Admiralty ^[5] .
• Apostles Peter and Paul in the Transfiguration Cathedral . ^[one]

Architectural and decorative plastic.

• Station in Pushkin - with E. G. Chelpanova .
• Bas-relief “Banner of Peace”.
• Reliefs of the hall of the Moscow station - With Vera Isaeva (also in the team of sculptors who worked on the creation of the Piskaryov Memorial Cemetery )
• Sea horses and dolphins. Reinforced cement - Sculptors J. Ya. Mellup, N. S. Kochukov and I. A. Venkova (St. Petersburg, Vasilyevsky Island, Bolshoy Prospect, houses 87 and 89 - architect I. M. Tchaiko, early 1950s; before each facade has four stone pillars, completed with statues of sea horses supporting strongly extended balconies. Symmetrically located balconies-loggias and pilasters are crowned with sculptural images of dolphins).
• Bas-relief of the pavilion of the USSR at the World Exhibition in Brussels (1958) - Silver Medal ^{[1] [6]}

Ksenofont Nikolaevich Pshennikov (b. 1926) - graduated from the sculpture department of the Yakutsk Art College (1955; class of J. Ya. Mellup). People's Artist of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). ^[7] .

• Central State Archive of Literature and Art of St. Petersburg , f. 78, op.3, d.272
• Library of the Union of Artists of Russia
• Archive of Academician M. M. Schulz. Correspondence with different correspondents. (in the process of cataloging)

• Nesterov V.V. Lions guard the city / V.V. Nesterov; Photos by B. N. Stukalov ; After L. V. Uspensky . - L .: Artist of the RSFSR , 1972. - 480 p. - 50,000 copies. (in trans., superobl.)
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. Catalog. Compiled by V. M. Shvedov. L., 1952

• Dukhovschinsky Museum of History and Art
• Nesterov V.V. Lions guard the city / Khudozh. E. A. Polikashin . - 2nd ed., Rev. and add. - SPb. : Art-SPB, 2001. - S. 291 (Fairytale inhabitants of the water element). - 400 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-210-01560-2 .
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. Catalog. L. 1952
• Dyakonov I.M. Book of Memoirs. European Regional Development Fund European University of St. Petersburg. House in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg. 1995. Chapter 11. P.475, 476 - About Madeleine Heraldovna Mellup .
• Etkind Efim . Ebensee. (on page 21 - about mother - Madeleine Heraldovna Mellup) (unavailable link)
• Mellup Madl. Herald. Novod. student nab. Black river 56; J. anthem. Gedda; Konst. g. anthem. - “All of St. Petersburg. 1914 "