Yevgeny Vuchetich
Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (
Soviet sculptor and artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style, including The Motherland Calls
, the largest sculpture in the world at the time.
Biography
Vuchetich was born in
Yekaterinoslav, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), the son of Viktor Vuchetich (Vučetić), a Montenegrin immigrant from the clan of Grbalj, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of Russian and of French descent.[1]
He was a prominent representative of the
Hero of Socialist Labor (1967) and People's Artist of the USSR
(1959).
Family
One of his step-granddaughters is Israeli politician Ksenia Svetlova.
Works
- medalscommemorating the end of fascist rule in 1945.
- Nikolai Vatutin monument in Kyiv, Ukraine (1948).[3] This monument was dismantled on 9 February 2023.[4]
- Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations garden (1957)[5]
- Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in front of the plant "Gazoapparat" in Volgograd.
- A sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958), colloquially known as "Iron Felix", used to be in Moscow at the Lubyanka Square.
- The Motherland Calls! at Mamayev Kurgan (1963–1967)
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The Motherland Calls -
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares -
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park -
Vatutin monument in Kyiv as photographed in 2015
.JPG)
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yevgeny Vuchetich.
References
- ^ Иван Шевцов. Соколы. Русское Воскресение.
- ^ Sowjetische Ehrenmal
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Minkultura recommends that Kyiv dismantle the Vatutin monument near the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainska Pravda (27 January 2023)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Mariinsky Park without Vatutin. The monument to the Soviet general was finally demolished, Ukrainska Pravda – Zhyttia (9 February 2023)
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