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1849 - 1921. Known for: Sculpture.
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The sculptor Leonid Vladimirovich Posen is remembered predominantly for his monuments to literary figures Gogol and Ivan Kotliarevsky in Poltava, Ukraine. As a child, he modeled his first sculptures... Read full biography
The sculptor Leonid Vladimirovich Posen is remembered predominantly for his monuments to literary figures Gogol and Ivan Kotliarevsky in Poltava, Ukraine. As a child, he modeled his first sculptures from mouldy bread; as an adult, Posen worked mostly in wax. He began his artistic self-education by... Read full biography
The sculptor Leonid Vladimirovich Posen is remembered predominantly for his monuments to literary figures Gogol and Ivan Kotliarevsky in Poltava, Ukraine. As a child, he modeled his first sculptures from mouldy bread; as an adult, Posen worked mostly in wax. He began his artistic self-education by copying the works of Lieberich and Lanceray before moving onto sculpting portraits from life. Compared to his artistic predecessors, Posen’s sculptures are less dramatic. Unlike Lieberich, whose focus... Read full biography
The sculptor Leonid Vladimirovich Posen is remembered predominantly for his monuments to literary figures Gogol and Ivan Kotliarevsky in Poltava, Ukraine. As a child, he modeled his first sculptures from mouldy bread; as an adult, Posen worked mostly in wax. He began his artistic self-education by copying the works of Lieberich and Lanceray before moving onto sculpting portraits from life. Compared to his artistic predecessors, Posen’s sculptures are less dramatic. Unlike Lieberich, whose focus was hunting, or Lanceray, whose obsession was horses, Posen made the peasant the center of his art. Posen’s sculptures reject heroic iconography in favor of representing the humble and humane. Posen studied Law, never abandoned the profession and... Read full biography
The sculptor Leonid Vladimirovich Posen is remembered predominantly for his monuments to literary figures Gogol and Ivan Kotliarevsky in Poltava, Ukraine. As a child, he modeled his first sculptures from mouldy bread; as an adult, Posen worked mostly in wax. He began his artistic self-education by copying the works of Lieberich and Lanceray before moving onto sculpting portraits from life. Compared to his artistic predecessors, Posen’s sculptures are less dramatic. Unlike Lieberich, whose focus was hunting, or Lanceray, whose obsession was horses, Posen made the peasant the center of his art. Posen’s sculptures reject heroic iconography in favor of representing the humble and humane. Posen studied Law, never abandoned the profession and worked in the Russian judicial system for more than forty years. He pursued the arts independen... Read full biography
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The sculptor Leonid Vladimirovich Posen is remembered predominantly for his monuments to literary figures Gogol and Ivan Kotliarevsky in Poltava, Ukraine. As a child, he modeled his first sculptures from mouldy bread; as an adult, Posen worked mostly in wax.
He began his artistic self-education by copying the works of Lieberich and Lanceray before moving onto sculpting portraits from life. Compared to his artistic predecessors, Posen’s sculptures are less dramatic. Unlike Lieberich, whose focus was hunting, or Lanceray, whose obsession was horses, Posen made the peasant the center of his art. Posen’s sculptures reject heroic iconography in favor of representing the humble and humane.
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