About Isaak Mendelevitch
Lived 1887 – 1952 (aged 64). Isaak Mendelevitch was a Russian sculptor.
Isaak Abramovich Mendelevich (; – 9 September 1952) was a Soviet realist sculptor who made many statues of famous Soviet politicians, artists, and military figures.
Biography Mendelevich was born on to a Jewish family in Moscow. In Russia, he studied under the famous sculptors Konstantin Krakht and Anna Golubkina. He then went to Paris to study sculpting from 1909 to 1911. He returned to Moscow in 1911.
He was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. After the October Revolution he participated in the project for development of Soviet sculpture art and worked on a sculpture of Victor Hugo.
He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1942 for his statue of Hero of the Soviet Union pilot Valery Chkalov.
He died in Moscow on 9 September 1952.
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Who was Isaak Mendelevitch?
Russian sculptor (1887-1952)
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Isaak Mendelevitch was born on 16 November 1887 in Moscow.
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Isaak Mendelevitch died on 9 September 1952 in Moscow.
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Isaak Mendelevitch was a sculptor.
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Isaak Mendelevitch was Russian.
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