Aleksandr Yulianovich Rukavishnikov (; born 2 October 1950) is a Russian sculptor.
Biography
Alexander Yulianovich Rukavishnikov was born to a family of sculptors
Yulian Rukavishnikov and A. N. Filippova. Alexander Iulianovich is the third in a dynasty of hereditary sculptors. In 1974 he graduated with honors from the
Surikov Moscow Art Institute (workshop of
Lev Kerbel
Lev Yefimovich Kerbel (; – 14 August 2003) was a Soviet and Russian sculptor of socialist realist works. Kerbel's creations included statues of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Yuri Gagarin, which were sent by Soviet Government as gifts to soci ...
). For his thesis “Northern Fisherman” he receives a diploma with honors.
In 1984 he was awarded the honorary title “Honored Artist of the RSFSR”.
From 1986 to 1991 he was Secretary of the Board of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Since 1993, he has been the head of the Department of Sculpture at the
Surikov Moscow Art Institute.
In 1997 he was elected a full member of the
Russian Academy of Arts
Russian Academy of Arts (RAA / rus. РАХ, Росси́йская акаде́мия худо́жеств) is the State scientific Institution of Russian Federation, eligible heir to the USSR Academy of Arts. A founder of RAA is the Governmen ...
.
Rukavishnikov is a regular participant in all-Russian and international art exhibitions. Rukavishnikov's personal exhibitions were held at the
Central House of Artists and in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow, at the Nassau Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), at the Dielemann Gallery (Belgium) and in other museums and exhibition halls around the world.
The works of Rukavishnikov are kept in the collections of the
Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery (; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.
The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Muscovite merchant Pavel ...
, the
Russian Museum
The State Russian Museum (), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in ...
, the Ludwig Museum, Siemens, Hermes, John Wilson, and numerous private and corporate collections.
In 2012, the Workshop of Alexander Rukavishnikov opened on Zemlyanoy Val.
References
External links
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Inheritor: Alexander Rukavishnikov and His Forebears- Tretyakov Gallery Magazine, 2018.
20th-century Russian sculptors
21st-century Russian sculptors
20th-century Russian male artists
Russian male sculptors
Soviet sculptors
Russian modern sculptors
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
Artists from Moscow
1953 births
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
Living people