Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (Russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич; 28 December [O.S. 15 December] 1908–12 April 1974) was a 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.
He was a prominent representative of the Socialist Realism style and was awarded with the Lenin Prize in 1970, the Stalin Prize (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), Order of Lenin (twice), Order of the Patriotic War (2nd degree), 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
- Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin (1946–1949), overseen by a 13m tall monument of a Soviet soldier holding a German child, with a sword, over a broken swastika. This war memorial design was later used on coins and medals commemorating the end of fascist rule in 1945.
- Nikolai Vatutin monument in Kyiv, Ukraine (1948). This monument was dismantled on 9 February 2023.
- Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations garden (1957)
- 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
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Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares
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Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park
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Vatutin monument in Kyiv as photographed in 2015
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Awards
- Hero of Socialist Labour (10 October 1967)
- Peoples Artist of the RSFSR (1951)
- Honored worker of art of the Kazakh SSR (1957)
- Peoples Artist of the USSR
- Stalin prize 2nd class (1946)
- Stalin prize 1st class (1947)
- Stalin prize 2nd class (1948)
- Stalin prize 2nd class (1949)
- Stalin prize 1st class (1950)
- Two Order of Lenin (19 September 1952 and 15 October 1967)
See also
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)
- Swords Into Plowshares, United Nations Cyber School Bus, United Nations, UN.org, 2001, retrieved on: August 4, 2007
- "О присуждении Сталинских премий за выдающиеся работы в области искусства и литературы за 1945 год". Pravda (in Russian). No. 151. 17 June 1946. p. 3.
- "О присуждении Сталинских премий за выдающиеся работы в области искусства и литературы за 1946 год". Pravda (in Russian). No. 143. 7 June 1947. p. 3.
- "В Совете Министров Союза ССР О присуждении Сталинских премий за выдающиеся работы в области литературы и искусства за 1948 год". Pravda (in Russian). No. 100. 10 April 1949. p. 3.
- "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О присвоении звания Героя Социалистического Труда народному художнику СССР скульптору Вучетичу Е.В." (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR (in Russian). No. 42. 18 October 1967.
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