Maria Lvovna Dillon (1858–1932) was a Russian sculptor. She is known for her allegorical, genre, memorial, and portrait sculpture. Dillon is acknowledged as the first Russian female professional sculptor.

Biography

Dillon was born in Ponevezh,

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on October 27, 1858. She studied at the

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in St. Petersburg where she was taught by Alexander von Bock, Nikolay Laveretsky, and Ivan Podozerov. She won multiple awards while at the Academy. She traveled to Paris, and then to Italy, after she completed her studies at the Academy. Dillon exhibited her work in the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois. Her works are included in the collections of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of Urban Sculpture in St. Petersburg, the State

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in Moscow,

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in St. Petersburg, and the State Gornyi Institute in Kamchatka. In the 1890s to the 1910s, Dillon created a number of memorial tombs, including those for the actress

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, the composer

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, and the painter

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. She also sculpted a monument to the mathematician

Nikolai Lobachevsky Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (; , ; – ) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, kno ...

in Kazan. Her husband was the Russian painter

Fyodor Buchholz Fyodor Fyodorovich Buchholz (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Бухгольц), born Teodor Buchholz (9 June 1857, Włocławek - 7 May 1942, Saint Petersburg) was a painter, graphic artist and art teacher from the Russian Empire. He speci ...

. She died in Leningrad on June 14, 1932.

Legacy

An exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Dillon's birth was held at St Michael's Castle, part of the State Russian Museum, in 2010.

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