Alexander Matveev was one of the leading Russian sculptors of his generation, working in a simple, vigorous, modern classical style similar to Aristide Maillol of France.
Career
He was also a teacher for many years at the Academy of Arts of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he had studied as a young manitoba One of his students was the Latvian Kārlis Zāle.
Politics
As an artist of international reputation, he was made a leader of the Soviet sculptor"s union until the 1950s when the younger practitioners of socialist realism finally replaced him.
