MENDELEVICH Isaac Abramovich

16 (28) November 1887 (Moscow) — 9 сентября 1952 (Moscow)

Sculptor, graphic

In 1900-х he began learning sculpture, using the advice А. С. Голубкиной and К. Ф. Крахта. In 1909-1911 учился in Paris in the Studio Ф. Коларосси and workshop А. Майоля. Studied classical sculpture in Rome.

he Lived in Moscow. Worked in the field of easel and monumental sculpture. In his early works show the influence of the symbolists and creativity А. С. Голубкиной (the song "Laugh", "Dream", both — 1911). The portrait busts: artists В. Д. Поленова (1916), И. И. Бродского; artists П. М. Садовского (1918), Е. Б. Вахтангова (1924), В. И. Немировича-Данченко (1942), М. М. Тарханова; figures of the revolution and party leaders К. Либкнехта, Р. Люксембург, М. В. Фрунзе (1922), А. Д. Цюрупы (1926-1927), С. М. Буденного (1927), Ф. Э. Дзержинского (1936).

have Executed projects for monuments В. И. Ленину (1924, for the locomotive depot of the October railway; 1927), Н. Э. Бауману, Г. К. Орджоникидзе, С. А. Чаплыгину. For the monument В. П. Чкалову in Gorky (1939) awarded the State (Stalin) prize 1942 года.

he Participated in exhibitions of Association "Free creativity", "Moscow salon" (1917, 1918, 1920/1921), AHRR — akhr (1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929), "Heat-цвет" (1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929); 1-й, 2-й, 4-й the exhibitions of Moscow repository of modern art in the gallery "Lemercier" (all — 1919), exhibitions: "The Red Army. 1918-1923" (1923), works of art by 10-летнему the anniversary of the October revolution (1928), "Socialist construction in Soviet art" (1930), "Artists of the RSFSR for XV years" (1933), "XX years of the red army and the Military-Морского Navy" (1938), all-Union art exhibitions "the industry of socialism" (1939), "the Great Patriotic war" (1942), "Heroic front and rear" (1943) in Moscow, Art-кустарной the exhibition of the USSR in new-Йорке, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit (1929) and others.

he was Buried at Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

Work is represented in several Museum collections, including the State Tretyakov gallery.