Yevgeny Vuchetich

Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (28 December [O.S. 15 December] 1908–12 April 1974) (Russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич; Ukrainian: Євген Вікторович Вучетич, Evhen Viktorovich Vuchetich) was a prominent 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, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine), the son of Viktor Vuchetich (Vučetić), of Serbian ethnicity, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of Russian and of French descent.^[1]

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^[2] 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.
• Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations garden (1957)^[3]
• 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

See also

• List of Russian artists

References