Matvey Manizer

Matvey Manizer
Matvey Manizer
	Матвей Генрихович Манизер
Born	1891; St. Petersburg
Died	1966 (aged 74–75)
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Nationality	Russian
Education	State Artistic and Industrial Academy
Known for	Sculptor
Style	Socialist realism
Movement	Academic and realistic
Spouse(s)	Elena Alexandrovna Yanson-Manizer
Awards	People's Artist of the USSR

Matvey Genrikhovich Manizer (Russian: Матвей Генрихович Манизер, 1891 – 1966) was a prominent Russian sculptor. Manizer created a number of works that became classics of socialist realism.

Life

Manizer was born in St. Petersburg into the family of Genrikh Manizer (Russian: Генрих Манизер, German: Heinrich Maniser), a well-known Memel-born artist of Baltic German descent.

As a student Manizer attended the State Artistic and Industrial Academy there, and the art school of the Peredvizhniki from 1911 through 1916. From 1926 he was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. In 1941 he moved to Moscow.

Working in an academic and realistic style, Manizer produced a great number of monuments situated throughout the Soviet Union, including some twelve portrayals of Lenin. Manizer was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR (1958), Member of USSR Academy of Arts (1947), vice president of USSR Academy of Arts (1947-1966), chairman of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists from 1937 to 1941, and winner of the Stalin Prize three times.

Manizer's wife Elena Alexandrovna Yanson-Manizer (1890-1971) was a sculptor in her own right, with work at the Dynamo station of the Moscow Metro. Their son Hugh Matveyevich Manizer (born 1927) is a noted painter. Among Manizer's students was the Stalin Prize-winning Fuad Abdurakhmanov.

Manizer is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow.

Work

an elaborate multi-figure monument to Ukrainian poet and humanist Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv, Ukraine
monument to the victims of the 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre in St. Petersburg, Frunze District, St. Petersburg, 1932
multifigure equestrian monument to Red Army commander Vasily Chapayev, Samara. 1932
80 bronzes of Soviet citizens for the Revolution Square station of the Moscow Metro, 1938
monument to Soviet figure Valerian Kuybyshev, Samara, 1938
monument to Lenin in Ulyanovsk, 1941, awarded Stalin Prize second class
bronze sculptures of the Hero of the Soviet Union Matvey Kuzmin and the Soviet military martyr Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, in the Partisanskaya station of the Moscow Metro, 1943, awarded Stalin Prize first class
monument to the Metro builders, Electricity Factory station of the Moscow Metro, 1944
monument to Ivan Pavlov in Ryazan, 1950, awarded Stalin Prize second class
monument to farmer heroes, Tugu Tani, Heroes Monument, Jakarta, 1963

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