MERKUROV S. D. Vladimir Lenin

MERKUROV S. D.

1881, Aleksandropol, Erevan Province —1952, Moscow

Vladimir Lenin

1948

on гранит. 109 x 45 x 45
СО-263
Received in 1954 from the Ministry of Culture of the USSR

Location in museum The St Michael’s Castle Open the panorama of the hall in the virtual tour
Open Fund of Sculpture of the 20th – 21th centuries
Period Early 20th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords 1945-1991 | socialist realism | Soviet Art | male portrait | Soviet Leaders
Virtual exhibitions and 3d-tours
- The 100th Anniversary of the USSR
- Radiant Future. Art of Socialist Realism
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Sergei Merkurov is known in the history of Soviet sculpture as the unrivaled master of Lenin’s image. He was one of the first monument sculptors to regularly receive state commissions for statues of Lenin and Stalin, many of which have not survived. He was responsible for a huge number of these monuments. Art experts of the time noted with veneration the “Assyro-Babylonian” power of his monuments.

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