Romuald Romualdovich Iodko was a Soviet sculptor, known for his works in outdoor sculpture in the style of Socialist Realism, such as Girl with an Oar and Children"s Khorovod fountain; Meritorious Sculptor of the Russian SFSR.
Education
In 1912, Iodko entered the Imperial Stroganov Central Art and Industrial School, where he studied under the mentorship of South.S. Alyoshin, North.A. Andreyev and East.U. Shishkina, then after graduating in 1918, he began to work at the first State Free Art Shops. He graduated from Vkhutemas sculpture faculty under the leadership of his teacher, Boris Korolev, in 1925, and was left as an assistant on scientific-methodological and pedagogical work.
Career
Born on 3 December 1894 in Slutsk, Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire, in the family of an artisan. In 1919, he volunteered for the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, where he served until 1921, when he was sent on to continue his artistic education at Vkhutemas. In 1938 he was the head of the Union of Soviet sculptors, and the chairman of the Moscow Regional Union of Soviet Artists and Sculptors (MOSSKhS).
Iodko performed mainly monumental decorative works for parks, embankments, stadiums, public buildings in Moscow and other cities, including Female Swimmer or Leap into the Water (1930), Children"s Khorovod (1930) for the fountain, Victory (1935), Female Builder (1937), Girl with an Oar (1936–1937), Miner (1939), and Female Miner (1939).
He also created sculptural portraits of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1940), Ageeva (1949), Master of Forestry Stakhanov, and others Indoor sculptures, like Portrait of a Manitoba (1925) and Red Guard (1927).
Early in his career as an academic, he had taught at the sculpture department in Vkhutemas-Vkhutein (1924-1930), MAI (1930-1941), MKhI (1937-1947), and MIPIDI (1949-1952). Holding a professor title since 1941.
In 1952, he became to work in MVKhPU, where he headed the department of academic sculpture from 1963 to 1974.
Among his pupils were L.E. Kerbel, V.E. Tsigal, and South Dakot Shaposhnikov. He died on 13 November 1974 in Moscow, and is buried in Vvedenskoye Cemetery.
Membership
Since 1926 he begins to participate in art exhibitions, and also became a member of artist societies, OST (1925–1927) and AKhRR (1928–1932).