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MANIZER, Matvey was born on March 17, 1891 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of an artist.
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Matvey Genrikhovich Manizer
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Matvey MANIZER, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Sculptor. People's Artist of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics from 1958; People's Artist of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; Honorary Art Worker of Ukraine and Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. three Stalin Prize (1941, 1943 and 1950); Order of the Red Star; medals. member, and from 1947 vice-president, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Arts; Communist Party member from 1941.
Education
As a student Manizer attended the State Artistic and Industrial Academy there, and the art school of the Peredvizhniki from 1911 through 1916.
Career
In 1941 he moved to Moscow. ing 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"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.
Achievements
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Manizer was awarded the People"s Artist of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (1958), Member of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Arts (1947), vice president of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Arts (1947-1966), chairman of the Saint St. Petersburg Union of Artists from 1937 to 1941, and winner of the Stalin Prize three times.
Politics
Manizer created a number of works that became classics of socialist realism.
Membership
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Artists]
From 1926 he was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics -
Political Party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union