Lehto Friedrich (Friedrich Waldemar Ferdinand) Karlovich

April 6, 1887 (Dorpat) - 1961 (Tartu)

sculptor, painter, graphic artist

from family Porkhov tradesman Karl Lehto, Estonian nationality. General education in the 12-th St. Petersburg High School (1907). At the same time engaged in the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, graduated in 1906 with a silver medal. He studied at the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at IAH (1909-1914) at the sculpture department as an auditor, he graduated with the rank of the artist's sculpture "Abduction sabinyanki».

lived in St. Petersburg - Petrograd (until 1919), Moscow (1921), Tartu (1949). Member of the Civil War (1919-1921). From 1921 he held several executive positions in the Commissariat, a section chief of the Moscow Fine Arts Department of Education, head of the Commission to monitor the export abroad for art and antiquities, the main museum and theater expert. In 1927-1932 - Deputy Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery (1927-1932). Director of Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko (1920), one of the initiators of the Musical Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Since 1933 - Director of the exhibition management "Vsekohudozhnika. Member of the artistic jury for the construction of the Palace of Soviets (1933).

worked in the field of monumental sculpture. Participated in a festive design of the streets of Moscow to the revolutionary holidays. The statue was working, as set out in the Red Square (1922, dismantled in 1924), tombstone N. Bauman at Vagankovskoye Cemetery (1926), fountain sculpture at the Moscow Hippodrome (1932), the sculptural decoration of the portal above the stage of a concert hall them. Tchaikovsky (end 1930) in Moscow.

was also engaged in easel and monumental painting, graphics. Served paintings on the theme of industrial construction drawings of meaningful objects (bridges, new buildings), portraits of factory workers. In 1931 undertook a creative assignment for the construction of Bereznikovsky chemical plant, in early 1930 paid a visit to Ivanovo thermal power station, highway Moscow - Donbass. In collaboration with VF Bordichenko and BV Pokrovskii created a panel for the pavilion of the Moscow region VSHV (end 1930), North River Station (1937), sketches of mosaic panels for the station in Moscow Underground Plant them. Stalin "(1940; now - Avtozavodskaya »).

During the Great Patriotic War living in evacuation in Kyrgyzstan; Head of Arts Issyk-Kul region.

Since 1909 - participant of exhibitions. Has exhibited his works at art exhibitions Communities (1917), Spring exhibition in the halls of the Academy of Arts (1918), 1-st state of free art exhibitions (1919) in Petrograd, the first traveling exhibition of paintings and drawings (1929), exhibition of revolutionary and Soviet themes of "socialist construction in the visual arts" (both - 1930), reporting the work of artists, loaned to the areas of industrial and collective farms (1931), «XV years, the Red Army" (1933) in Moscow, the commemorative exhibition "Artists of the RSFSR XV years in Leningrad and Moscow (1932-1934). Member of artistic and handicraft exhibitions in the USSR in New York (1929), exhibition of Soviet art in Koenigsberg (1932). One of the founders (1922) and exponential AHRR (1924-1929, with interruptions), member of the presidium of the Association. Since 1932 - Member MOSSH. Held solo exhibitions in Moscow (1931, 1935 (with BF Rybchenkovym )).

taught art courses at the Central AHRR (1920), at the Moscow State Art Institute. VISurikova, Dean of the Faculty of Painting (second half of 1940). Director of the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (1949-1959), professor (from 1951). Honored Artist of the Estonian SSR.

Lehto works are in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery.