Born on January 4, 1934 in Tbilisi in the family of a Georgian intellectual who preserved ancient traditions. His father Konstantin Georgievich (1903-2002) is known in Georgia as a civil engineer. An uncle, the brother of his mother, the famous painter Georgy Nizheradze, had a noticeable influence on the inquisitive and sensitive child. His house, where the boy spent a significant part of his time, was constantly visited by the largest cultural figures, prominent artists - David Kakabadze, Sergo Kobuladze, Ucha Japaridze and many others. They became the first teachers of a young man who was fond of the visual arts. Mother - Nizharadze Tamara Semyonovna (1910 - 1991), a representative of a noble princely family, as is customary in the Caucasus, devoted her whole life to raising children. Wife - Inessa Alexandrovna. The daughter is Elena. Grandchildren: Vasily, Zurab, Victoria.
Zurab Tsereteli graduated from the painting faculty of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, worked at the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
In 1964 he studied in France, where he communicated with the outstanding artists P. Picasso and M. Chagal.
Since the late 1960s, he began to actively work in the field of monumental art. In addition to Russia, his sculptural works are in Brazil, Great Britain, Spain, USA, France, Japan and Lithuania.
In 2003, for the special services of Zurab Tsereteli to the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin was granted Russian citizenship.
By the decree of the President of the USSR from November 11, 1990
Prizes
Honorary titles
Public awards
Creativity of Zurab Tsereteli
Muralist painter
Park "Riviera" in Sochi (1970)
Sculptor
natural Museum, Novosibirsk
January 2013 - Tver City Museum and Exhibition Center, Tver
February 2013 - Museum of Local Lore, Yekaterinburg
April 2013 - Omsk Museum fine arts them. Vrubel, Omsk
February 2014 - Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
September 2014 - National Art Gallery, Yoshkar-Ola
September 2014 - Nadia Brykina Gallery, Zurich
September 2014 - Astrakhan Art Gallery. P.M.Dogadina, Astrakhan
October 2014 - MBUK "Exhibition Center", Vladimir
December 2014 - Tver City Museum and Exhibition Center, Tver
May 2015 - North Caucasian branch of the State Museum of the East, Maykop
June 2015 - Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul
October 2015 - State Museum of Art of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after A. Kasteeva, Almaty
October 2015 - Days of Moscow in Riga, Riga
February 2016 - Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I. N. Kramskoy, Voronezh
June 2016 - Cherkessk Art Gallery, Cherkessk
July 2016 - Pskov State United Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, Pskov
August 2016 - Museum and Exhibition Complex "New Jerusalem", Istra
September 2016 - Museum of Contemporary Art "House of Muses", Yaroslavl
December 2016 - Gran Guardia Palace, Verona
April 2017 - Lipetsk Regional Art Museum, Lipetsk
June 2017 - State Museum-Reserve Tauric Chersonesos, Sevastopol
September 2017 - Novy Urengoy City Museum of Fine Arts, Novy Urengoy
November 2017 - Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris, Paris
March 2018 - Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Center (BIECC), Bahrain
March 2018 - "Klyuev House", Moscow Zoo, Moscow
July 2018 - Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow
July 2018 - Museum of Landscape, Ples
August 2018 - Museum-Estate of A.M. Gerasimov, A.M. Gerasimov and Z.K. Tsereteli. Exhibition of works by two presidents of the Academy of Arts, Michurinsk
November 2018 - Park "Patriot", Kubinka
January 2019 - ESTE ARTE, Punta del Este
January 2019 - Saatchi Gallery, London
February 2019 - Gallery "Academy", Krasnoyarsk
March 2019 - Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Center (BIECC), Bahrain
April 2019 - International Exhibition of Contemporary Art "Art Paris", Paris
April 2019 - Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Tomsk
April 2019 - Municipal Cultural Institution "Podolsk Exhibition Hall", Podolsk
May 2019 - Tbilisi Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi
May 2019 - Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku
June 2019 - Liechtenstein State Museum, Liechtenstein
June 2019 - Art Gallery "Diaz", Irkutsk
July 2019 - Primorsky Branch of the Union of Artists of Russia, Vladivostok
July 2019 - Vyatka Art Museum named after V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsovs, Kirov
September 2019 - International Contemporary Art Exposition, Istanbul
September 2019 - Museum and Creative Center "House of Korbakov", Vologda
October 2019 - D10 Art Space, Geneva
November 2019 - Museum of Contemporary Art "House of Muses"
Zurab Tsereteli's family
Wife - Inessa Alexandrovna Andronikashvili (born 1937), princess.
Daughter - Elena (Lika) (born 1959), art critic.
Grandchildren: Vasily (born 1978), Zurab (born 1987), Victoria (born 2000).
Great-grandchildren: Alexander (born 2003), Nikolai (born 2005), Philip (born 2008), Maria Isabella (born 2009).
03.01.2020
Zurab Tsereteli
Tsereteli Zurab Konstantinovich
Russian Artist
Sculptor
Hero of Socialist Labor
Russian monumental artist. Sculptor. Painter. Educator. Professor. Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO. President of the Russian Academy of Arts. Hero of Socialist Labor. People's Artist Russian Federation... State Prize Laureate.
Zurab Tsereteli was born on January 4, 1934 in the city of Tbilisi, Georgia. The boy grew up in the family of a civil engineer. The child was influenced by his uncle, artist Georgy Nizharadze, in whose house he spent a lot of time. Also, many famous Georgian artists were often there, who became his first teachers in painting.
After graduating from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1958, Tsereteli began his creative career. At first he worked as an artist at the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, which played a significant role in his development as an artist and monumentalist. Even then, Zurab began to participate in various exhibitions, and in 1964 he took a course in France, where he had the opportunity to communicate with Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.
Since the late 1960s, Tsereteli paid great attention to work in the field of monumental and mosaic art, which for many years became the master's favorite techniques and brought him fame, both in Russia and abroad. Among the first works that brought the master fame: the design of the resort complex in Pitsunda in 1967, mosaic and stained glass compositions in Tbilisi in 1972, the ensemble of the children's resort town in Adler in 1973. Also in 1970-1980 he worked as the chief artist of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, performed chief artist of the 1980 Olympics and participated in the creation of the Izmailovo hotel complex.
In subsequent years, Zurab Konstantinovich worked more in metal and sculpture, actively using large metal high-reliefs. The geography of his monumental works in this technique covers the territory of several countries of the world. In addition to Russia, his sculptural works are in the UK, Spain, USA, France, Japan, Brazil, Georgia and Lithuania. Among them are the most significant monuments: "Happiness to the Children of the World", "Science, Education - to the World" and "Tear of Sorrow" in the USA, "Breaking Down the Wall of Mistrust" in London, "Man and the Sun" and "History of Georgia" in Tbilisi, "Birth New Man "in Seville," Friendship Forever "in Moscow, a monument to the victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan. At the same time, he continued to create stained glass windows.
By the decree of the President of the USSR from November 11, 1990 For his great personal contribution to the development of Soviet fine art and fruitful social activities, the chairman of the Georgian Designers' Union Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.
Back in the early 1990s, Tsereteli moved to Moscow, where, having received the support of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, he actually became the main monumentalist of the capital. Zurab Konstantinovich participated in the construction of a memorial complex on Poklonnaya Hill and in a number of other projects: the Okhotny Ryad shopping and recreational complex, the sculptural decoration of Manezhnaya Square, the monument "In commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet", decoration of several new metro stations. In addition, Tsereteli created a number of monuments to figures of the past and lifetime sculptural portraits of his contemporaries, which are installed in cities of Russia and the world.
His pictorial and graphic arts are worth noting. In total, more than 5000 canvases are known, which are on display in many museums, galleries and private collections and overwhelm the artist's workshops.
In addition to creativity, Tsereteli is actively involved in social activities... Since 1997 he has been the President of the Russian Academy of Arts, where, first of all, he is working on the development of academic art education. The largest deed of the president and the entire Russian Academy of Arts was participation in the restoration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
Since 1999, Tsereteli has also been the director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art created by him, and in 2001 the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery was opened. Also, he was President of the Moscow International Fund for Assistance and Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO, Academician of the International Academy of Creativity, the Russian Academy of Arts, the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the Academy of Fine Arts of France, Honorary Professor of many academies and universities, member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
The life of Zurab Tsereteli is closely connected with charity. Some of the works were created by the master free of charge, as a gift to this or that city, institution, fund. The artist participates in charity exhibitions and auctions, channeling funds from the sold works to fight childhood diseases.
The house-museum of Zurab Tsereteli in Peredelkino was opened in 2016. The museum is an open-air sculpture garden and the author's creative workshop.
Russian Institute theatrical art On July 17, 2019, he received a sculptural composition "Monument to Future Stars" from the monumental artist, President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli. The monument was erected near the historic mansion of GITIS in the courtyard of the Institute in Maly Kislovsky Lane.
Awards and Recognition of Zurab Tsereteli
State awards Russian Federation and USSR
Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal (November 11, 1990) - for his great personal contribution to the development of Soviet art and fruitful social activities
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree (July 26, 2010) - for an outstanding contribution to the development of the fine arts and many years of creative activity
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (January 4, 2006) - for outstanding contribution to the development of the fine arts
Order of Merit to the Fatherland, III degree (April 29, 1996) - for a great personal contribution to the creation and successful completion of the complex of works of the Victory Monument on Poklonnaya Gora
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (February 20, 2014) - for a great contribution to the development of the fine arts, many years of creative and social activities
Order of Friendship of Peoples (November 14, 1980) - for the great work in the preparation and holding of the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Badge of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation "For Contribution to Russian Culture" (2018)
Encouragements of the President of the Russian Federation
Certificate of honor of the President of the Russian Federation (December 1, 2008) - for great services in the development of the fine arts, long-term creative and social activities
Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (November 18, 1997) - for active participation in the preparation and holding of the celebration of the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow
Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (August 14, 1995) - for active participation in the preparation and holding of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 years
Awards of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation
The badge of distinction "For Services to Moscow" (Moscow, December 30, 2003) - for a great personal contribution to the development of the fine arts, many years of fruitful work in the interests of the city and Muscovites
Order named after Akhmat Kadyrov (Chechnya, 2005) - for personal contribution to perpetuating the memory of the first President of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov, activities contributing to the strengthening of peace, friendship and cooperation between peoples
Medal For the Glory of Ossetia (North Ossetia, 2010) - for the monument to the victims of the 2004 terrorist attack in Beslan
Order of the Key of Friendship (Kemerovo Region, 2012)
Medal of the Tula City Duma "For services in the field of culture and art" (2019)
Orders and medals of foreign states
Knight Commander of the Legion of Honor (France, 2010)
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France, 2005)
Order of Friendship (Azerbaijan, May 20, 2019) - for fruitful work in strengthening cultural ties between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Azerbaijan
Medal "Astana" (Kazakhstan, December 11, 1998) - for a great contribution to the strengthening of friendship and cooperation between peoples
Order of Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 2002) - for special services in the field of education and culture
Bernardo O'Higgins Order (Chile, 2007)
Vermeil Medal - the highest award of the city of Paris (1998)
Big Bronze Medal of the City of Paris - for an outstanding contribution to culture, art and the rapprochement of the peoples of Russia and Georgia with France (1998)
Cross of Honor of the Charitable Interregional Association of Veterans of the French Resistance "Combatan Volunteer" (2000)
UNESCO Picasso Gold Medal (2007)
Gold Medal of Honor (US National Society of the Arts) - Outstanding Contribution to the Arts (2010)
Badge of honor "Golden Age" - for an exceptional contribution to the Bulgarian culture and the development of cultural cooperation, (Bulgaria, November 18, 2012)
Prizes
USSR State Prize (1970) - for mosaic compositions of the Lenin memorial in Ulyanovsk (1969) and at the Tbilisi Trade Union Palace (1969-1970)
1976 Lenin Prize in the field of literature, art and architecture (April 20, 1976) - for the spatial and decorative solution of the children's zone of the resort town in Adler (prize for works of literature and art for children)
USSR State Prize (1982) - for participation in the creation of the Izmailovo hotel complex in Moscow (1980)
State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art (June 21, 1996) - for the memorial complex "Monument to Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow
Contemporary Art Prize 2000 "International Recognition" - "Golden Hand" (France) (2000)
State Prize of Georgia (2004)
National Prize "Russian of the Year" - for the formation and establishment in the world of the image of a single Russian nation with common historical and cultural roots and rich spiritual traditions (2005)
Public award of the newspaper "Izvestia" - "Izvestiya" (2009)
Public Award "Golden Bridge" - for making the most significant contribution to the strengthening and development of relations between the Italian Republic and the Russian Federation (2009)
Nominated for the 2012 Life in Art Prize of the Roman Academy of Fine Arts
Peoples' Friendship Award "White Cranes of Russia", 2015
Honorary titles
Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1967)
People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1978)
People's Artist of the USSR (March 28, 1980) - for great services in the development of Soviet fine arts
Professor of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts (1982)
Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1988)
People's Artist of the Russian Federation (January 4, 1994) - for great services in the field of fine arts
Goodwill Ambassador for UNESCO (1996)
Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1996)
Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid) (1998)
Full member of the Academy of Arts of the Kyrgyz Republic (1998)
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Fine Arts (Academy of the Immortals) of France (Paris) (2002)
Honorary Professor of Moscow state university (2004)
Member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Austria) (2009)
People's Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania (2019)
Awards from international organizations
Jubilee medal “IPA CIS. 25 years "(CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, November 29, 2018) - for merits in the development and strengthening of parliamentarism, for the contribution to the development and improvement of the legal framework for the functioning of the Commonwealth of Independent States, strengthening of international relations and inter-parliamentary cooperation
Badge of honor "For services in the development of culture and art" (Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS, May 19, 2016) - for significant contribution in the formation and development of a common cultural space of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, in the implementation of ideas of cooperation in the field of culture and art
Public awards
Order "Glory to Russia" (2003)
Medal "For Labor and Fatherland" (2003)
"Russian National Olympus" - the title "Super-Star" - with the presentation of the Order "For Honor and Valor", the "Radiant Star" award and a diploma (2003)
Order "Patron of the Arts" of the Charity Fund "Patrons of the Century" (2003)
Order of St. Anna, 1st degree - for fruitful professional and charitable activities both in Russia and abroad (Russian Imperial House, March 4, 2013)
Samara Cross (Public Council of Bulgaria, 2013)
Honorary Cross of Culture and Arts (Austrian Society of Albert Schweitzer, 2014)
Order of Friendship of Peoples "White Cranes of Russia", 2015
Honorary Civil Order - Silver Star "70 years Great Victory"(2015)
Badge of the National Association of Surveyors and Designers, 2016 "For an outstanding contribution to national and world culture"
Order of Honor and Glory Great Russia"(Fund" Power of the Fatherland ", 2016)
Creativity of Zurab Tsereteli
Muralist painter
Sculptural compositions "Legends of Crimea" over the entrance to the hotel "Yalta-Intourist" (1977)
Resort complex in Pitsunda (1967)
Park "Riviera" in Sochi (1970)
Palace of Trade Unions in Tbilisi (1970)
Hotel "Venets" (pool-mosaic "Sea bottom") (1970, Ulyanovsk)
Lenin Memorial in Ulyanovsk (1970; USSR State Prize 1970)
The resort town of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in Adler (Sochi) (1973; Lenin Prize 1976)
Hotel complex "Yalta-Intourist" in Yalta (1978)
Permanent Mission of the USSR to the UN (1980, New York)
Hotel "Sport" (1980, Moscow)
Trade Representation of Hungary in the USSR (1982, Moscow)
Hotel complex "Izmailovo" in Moscow (1980; USSR State Prize 1982)
Building of IRTC "Eye Microsurgery" (1983, Moscow)
New stage of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow (2002)
Moscow metro stations Trubnaya and Victory Park
Sculptor
The monument "Friendship Forever" in honor of the bicentennial (1783-1983) of Georgia's accession to Russia, immediately after installation received an ironic nickname among Muscovites - "Shashlyk" (Tishinskaya Square in Moscow, the author of the architectural part is the famous poet Andrei Voznesensky)
Monument "Good conquers Evil" in front of the UN building in New York;
Monument "To destroy the wall of mistrust" (London, UK);
Six-meter Monument to Peter the Great in St. Petersburg
Bronze sculpture "The Birth of a New Man" (Paris, France);
Sculptural composition "The Birth of a New Man" (Seville, Spain)
"Birth of a New World", Columbus monument in Puerto Rico, 2016
Monument to John Paul II. France.
Sculptural decoration of the memorial complex on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow (1995; RF State Prize 1996)
The Tear of Sorrow Monument (2006, New York) is a gift to the American people in memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
Monument to Marina Tsvetaeva (2012, Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, France)
Monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (2013, Ruza)
Monument to Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, based on the Yalta Conference (2015, Yalta)
Sculptural composition "Warrior-skier" in the park "Patriot" (2017)
Alley of the rulers of Russia (2017, Moscow)
Monument to Pushkin (2017, Apatity)
Sculpture of AS Griboyedov in the cultural and historical complex "Yard of the Cyrillic alphabet" (Pliska).
The monument to Peter I (the official name is the Monument "In commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet") was erected in 1997 by order of the Moscow Government on an artificial island piled up at the fork of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal. It marked the 300th anniversary Of the Russian fleet... The total height of the monument is 98 meters, which makes it one of the tallest monuments in Russia and in the world
2009 - One Hundred Works from Paris. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
September 2010 - Art Gallery, Tarusa, Kaluga region
July 2010 - Chuvash State Art Museum, Cheboksary
January 2011 - the exhibition "This wonderful world"Within the framework of the Year of the Russian Language and Russian Culture in Italy, the Central Exhibition Hall,
March 2011 - Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum, Zvenigorod
March 2011 - Personal exposition within the framework of the exhibition “Russian Academy of Arts. People, events, facts of history ", San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome, Italy
April 2011 - personal exhibition of Tsereteli within the framework of the Year Russia-Italy 2011, Ancona, Italy
May 2011 - Konstantinovsky Palace, Strelna, St. Petersburg
May 2011 - personal exhibition Chelyabinsk City Museum of Art, Chelyabinsk
September 2011 - Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, Yekaterinburg
December 2011 - Tula Museum of Fine Arts, Tula
March 2012 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
March 2012 - Novosibirsk State Artist
natural Museum, Novosibirsk
September 2012 - Kemerovo Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Kemerovo
September 2012 - Ulyanovsk Museum-Memorial of V.I.Lenin, Ulyanovsk
July 2012 - Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Tomsk
December 2012 - State Museum Association "Artistic Culture of the Russian North", Arkhangelsk
Travels in Georgia, Tbilisi Academy of Arts, years of work at the Georgian Academy of Sciences. From Zurab Tsulukidze from Tbilisi to Muscovite Zurab Tsereteli - a long way... With a unique experience: for example, in Paris, where, on a course on the development of artistic fantasy, the young master had a chance to communicate with Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall. Chief artist of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Moscow Olympics. Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO and President of the Russian Academy of Arts. The main artist of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, who, at the head of the artel, painted the dome of the cathedral ... Zurab Tsereteli created more than five thousand paintings and monumental works that were sold all over the world. Natalia Letnikova - about five monuments of the sculptor, about which there was no heated debate.
Zurab Tsereteli. Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS
“Here's my opinion! Who was in Italy, say "forgive" other lands "- Gogol's words about the sunny country. Signor Nicolo wrote Dead Souls in the eternal city. And for ten years now in the Roman park of Villa Borghese there is a three-meter monument to the writer by Zurab Tsereteli.
This is a gift from the sculptor to the Italian capital for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Russian writer. Gogol in bronze sits thoughtfully on a bench with a cheerful mask in his hands and looks sadly at those around him. “I can write about Russia only in Rome, only in this way it is in front of me all, in all its bulk” - is carved on the pedestal.
Monument from the gallery of sculptures of outstanding women. The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya in Ruza near Moscow was handed over to the city by the Russian military-historical society and the author. All works: sketches, models and bronze casting were made by Zurab Tsereteli himself. Bronze image of the first woman - Hero Soviet Union came out simple and strict.
Under the spruce trees, near the House of Culture, stands a four-meter-tall figure of a girl with her hands tied behind her back. According to the sculptor, it was a work for the soul and "went out to the people" only at the request of the Minister of Culture of Russia. In the year of Zoya's 90th birthday.
"Good triumphs over evil." The triumph of justice clad in bronze is one of the most famous works of Zurab Tsereteli. The monument was opened in front of the UN building in New York on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the international organization.
George the Victorious tramples a dragon with a spear. The plot is classic, but the dragon is made of fragments of dismantled American and Soviet missiles "Pershing-2" and SS-20. The figure of St. George was cast in Moscow, but the missiles were assembled in the USA: the details were provided on behalf of the USSR Ministry of Defense and the American side. This is how the ending symbol appeared cold war.
The world's first monument to d'Artagnan and the three Musketeers - a gift from Zurab Tsereteli Gascony. The literary quartet appeared at the request of a descendant of the famous Gascon, Senator Count Emery de Montesquieu. The prototypes of the bronze heroes were the characters of the film by Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich.
The monument was opened with a solemn parade of the current musketeers in the presence of actors Veniamin Smekhov and Valentin Smirnitsky. Together with Zurab Tsereteli, the film-musketeers became members of the Musketeers Society. They were greeted by 650 "fellow soldiers" who came to Gascony from different countries.
"It's not easy to argue with a guard of such height." The six-meter uncle Styopa appeared in 2015 in the center of Samara. The money for the monument to the literary colleague was collected by employees and veterans of the internal affairs bodies. The author of the sculpture - Zurab Tsereteli - refused the fee. The bronze composition seems to have left the pages of Sergei Mikhalkov's book: a high-rise guard at a traffic light surrounded by children.
Everyone loved Uncle Styopa,
Respected Uncle Styopa:
He was the best friend
All the guys from all the yards ...
The opening of the monument was timed to the 80th anniversary of the beloved policeman by all children.
The sculptor, President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli was born on January 4, 1934 in Tbilisi (Georgia).
In 1958 he graduated from the Faculty of Painting of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts.
After graduating from the Academy of Arts, he was employed by the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Georgian Academy of Sciences as an artist-architect.
In 1963-1964 he worked as a senior foreman of the design department of the Tbilisi Art and Production Combine of the Art Fund of Georgia. During this period, he became the artistic director and chairman of the monumental section of the Union of Artists of Georgia.
Since the late 1960s, Tsereteli began to actively work in the field of monumental art.
In 1967 he became the main artist of the resorts in Georgia. He designed resort complexes in Pitsunda, Gagra, Sukhumi, Borjomi. In the same year, the first personal exhibition of Zurab Tsereteli was held in Tbilisi.
In 1967-1968 he worked on the design of the House of Cinema in Moscow, in 1969 he created mosaic compositions in the Palace of Trade Unions in Tbilisi, the mosaic pool "Sea Bottom" in the memorial complex in Ulyanovsk.
In 1970-1980 he was the chief artist of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1979 he was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts, in 1980 he was appointed chief artist of the XXII Olympic Games in Moscow.
In 1981-1982 he was the artistic director for monumental and decorative art of the Art Fund of Georgia, headed the creative workshop of monumental art of the USSR Academy of Arts in Tbilisi.
In 1983-1985 he was in charge of the department of monumental and decorative art of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts.
In 1987 he was elected chairman of the Union of Designers of Georgia, in 1990-1992 he served as academician-secretary of the design department of the USSR Academy of Arts.
In 1992 he became the President of the Moscow International Foundation for UNESCO.
In 1994 he was appointed vice president of the Russian Academy of Arts (RAA), in 1996 - acting. about. President of the Russian Academy of Arts, since 1997 headed the Academy.
Zurab Tsereteli took part in a number of architectural and monumental projects: in 1993-1995 he headed the project to create a memorial complex on Poklonnaya Gora; in 1994-1999, he was responsible for the artistic direction and coordination of the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior; in 1996 he worked on the creation of an artistic concept for the design of the Moscow Zoo; in 1997 he developed a general artistic and design solution for Manezhnaya Square.
In 1998, the first personal exhibition of Zurab Tsereteli in Moscow - "Dedicated to Inessa" was held in the Maly Manezh. In 2007, a personal exhibition of the artist took place in the exhibition halls of the UNESCO headquarters (Paris). Personal exhibitions of Tsereteli were also held in Brisbane (Australia, 2007), Harbin (China, 2008), Plovdiv (Bulgaria, 2009), New York (2010), Paris (2010), Palermo and Rome (2011).
In 1999, Tsereteli initiated the creation of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, took over as its director and donated his personal collection of 20th century art to the museum. In 2001 he opened the museum and exhibition complex "Art Gallery of Zurab Tsereteli".
The artist's monumental works are located in Russia, Georgia, USA, Spain, France, Italy and many other countries of the world. Among the most famous works of the master: compositions "Happiness to children of the whole world" (Brockport, USA, 1979), "Good triumphs over evil" (New York, 1990), "The birth of a new man" (Seville, Spain, 1995), monuments "300 years of the Russian fleet. Peter I "(Moscow, 1997), Nikolai Gogol (Rome, 2002), Nikolai the Wonderworker (Bari, Italy, 2003), Princess Olga (Pskov, 2003), General De Gaulle (Moscow, 2005), Akhmad Kadyrov (Grozny, 2005), George the Victorious (Tbilisi, 2006), Pope John Paul II (Ploermel, France, 2006), Oleg Ryazansky (Ryazan, 2007).
Zurab Tsereteli is the author of the Monument dedicated to the fight against international terrorism (Bayonne, USA, 2006), compositions - "Ipatiev Night" (Moscow, 2007), "Wives of the Decembrists. Gate of Fate" (Moscow, 2008), "Musketeers" (Kondom, France, 2010), "Mimino" (Tbilisi, 2011), monuments to Marina Tsvetaeva (Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie, France, 2012), Peter Stolypin (October, Ulyanovsk region, 2012), Founders of the European Union (Metz, France, 2012), Apostle Paul (Veria, Greece, 2013).
Tsereteli is a professor at leading domestic and foreign universities - the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Brockport University of Fine Arts (USA, 1979), Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (2004).
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid, 1998). Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Fine Arts (2002). Member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009).
Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2011). Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
Since 2006 Zurab Tsereteli is a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the commission for the development of charity and volunteering, as well as for culture and the preservation of historical and cultural heritage.
Zurab Tsereteli - People's Artist of the USSR and the Russian Federation (1979, 1993), UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (1996), Hero of Socialist Labor (1991). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1976), State Prizes of the USSR (1978, 1983) and RF (1996), Picasso Prize (1994), State Prize of Georgia (2004).
Chevalier of the Orders of Friendship of Peoples (1994) and Orders for Services to the Fatherland, III, II and I degrees (1996, 2006, 2010).
For his contribution to culture and art he was awarded the Vermeil Medal (France, 1998), the Order of Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 2002), the Order of Arts and Letters (France, 2005), the Gold Medal of Honor of the US National Society of Arts (2010).
Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor of France (2010), Order of Civil Merit (Spain, 2012), Imperial Order of Saint Anne (Russia, 2013).
Zurab Tsereteli was married to Inessa Andronikashvili (she died in 1998).
The sculptor has a daughter Elena (born 1959), three grandchildren - Vasily (1978), Zurab (1987) and Victoria (2000), great-grandchildren: Alexander (2003), Nikolay (2005), Philip (2008) and Maria Isabella (2009) ).
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Name: Zurab Tsereteli
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Age: 85 years old
Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgia
Activities: artist, sculptor, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR
Tags: artist, sculptor
Family status: widower
The biography of Zurab Tsereteli is as monumental as his work. The list of works of this outstanding artist includes hundreds of sculptures, monuments, panels, mosaics, paintings around the world, more than forty personal exhibitions of the monumentalist. The list of honorary titles, awards, prizes and other merits of the master is long. Today Zurab Tsereteli lives in Moscow, heads Russian Academy Arts and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, continues to work fruitfully.
The most popular monumental painter of our time was born on January 4, 1934 in Tbilisi. The formation of young Zurab on the path of creativity was determined by the atmosphere in which the boy grew up. Parents did not belong to the art world: mother Tamara Nizharadze devoted her life to home and children, father Konstantin Tsereteli was a mining engineer, worked as a teacher at a technical university.
But his mother's brother Georgy Nizharadze was a painter. While in his house, little Zurab not only learned to draw, but also imbued with the aura of conversations about art, since the progressive people of that time came to visit his uncle. At the age of eight, Zurab entered the Tbilisi state academy Arts, which he graduated "excellent" in 1958.
The impression was that the time itself dictated the artist's development in the style of the monumental genre. The epoch of the sixties, industrialization, the development of virgin lands, the solution of global problems, massive construction and resettlement - all this was reflected in Tsereteli's desire to bring novelty to what he was doing. And the first job - an artist-architect - presented such an opportunity.
Among the works carried out during this period are the decoration of the resort complexes of Georgia (Gagra, Sukhumi, Borjomi, Pitsunda). Mosaic painting becomes a feature of the master's work. A striking example of it were bus stops in Abkhazia, created at the stage of early creativity in the early sixties and representing amazing art objects in the form of fantastic marine life.
Along with the artistic and decorative work, Tsereteli takes part in exhibitions. The first success was brought by the painting "Guarding the World" at the exhibition of the same name in Moscow. In 1967, a personal exhibition of the master took place in Tbilisi. At the same time he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR.
In parallel with this, Tsereteli is actively expanding the geography of its activities. One by one, orders come for the design of various buildings and structures: the House of Cinema in Moscow (1967-1968), the Palace of Trade Unions in Tbilisi, the Seabed Pool in Ulyanovsk (1969), the resort complex in Adler (1973), the hotel Yalta-Intourist "in the Crimea (1978) and much more.
In the period of the 70-80s, the master works a lot and fruitfully. Since the seventieth year, being the chief artist of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has been decorating the embassies of the Soviet Union abroad, travels a lot, gets acquainted with popular foreign artists. He also worked hard at home, especially after being appointed chief artist of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. All this brings to the master honorary title People's Artist of the Soviet Union in the eightieth year.
The artist began working on monumental sculptures back in the late seventies. The sculptural composition "Happiness to the Children of the World" turned out to be a bright completion of the work. In 1983, the Friendship Forever monument was unveiled in Moscow, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of St. George between Russia and Georgia.
In the same year, in honor of this date, the artist built and opened the Arch of Friendship in his native Georgia - a mosaic panel, which today gives joy to tourists at the Cross Pass near the Georgian Military Highway.
The master dedicated a number of sculptures to famous figures of history and modernity. Among the memorable creations of this direction: a monument to the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie (France) and Moscow, a monument to Pushkin in Apatity, a monument to John Paul II (France), George the Victorious in Moscow.
The year before last, the Alley of Rulers opened in Moscow - a gallery of bronze busts by Zurab Tsereteli, depicting the leaders of the Russian state from the era of Rurik to the 1917 revolution.
But the monument to Peter the Great involved the artist's name in a scandal. The public in the capital reacted very negatively to both the sculpture and the idea of \u200b\u200bits construction, calling the first one, as Izvestia reported, "disfiguring the city." The king is depicted at full height, standing on the deck of a very large sailing ship.
The question of demolishing the monument was even raised, but today the passions have calmed down, and the monument continues to stand on an artificial island on the Moskva River, remaining one of the largest in the capital (height - 98 m, weight - more than 2000 tons).
Tsereteli is no stranger to being criticized: the master's works are sometimes accused of gigantomania and tastelessness, as was the case, for example, with the "Adam's Apple" located in the Art Gallery he opened, or with the "Tree of Fairy Tales" at the Moscow Zoo. The author himself takes it calmly.
While still studying at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Zurab Tsereteli met his future wife Inessa Andronikashvili, who came from a princely family. The couple have been married for over forty-five years. In 1998, after the death of Inessa Alexandrovna, the artist held his first personal exhibition in Moscow, named after his wife.
The daughter of Zurab Konstantinovich and Inessa Alexandrovna, Elena, and her children Vasily, Victoria and Zurab live in Moscow. Today, the Tsereteli family already has 4 great-grandchildren: Alexander, Nikolai, Philip, Maria-Isabella.
The life of Zurab Tsereteli is closely intertwined with charity. Some works were created by the master free of charge, as a gift to this or that city, institution, fund.
The artist takes part in charity exhibitions and auctions, channeling money from the sold works to fight childhood diseases.
It is worth noting that in 2007 The Georgian Times included Zurab Tsereteli in the top 10 richest persons of Georgian nationality in the world, indicating the artist's fortune at $ 2 billion.
Last year, Zurab Konstantinovich turned 84 years old. However, the rhythm of creative life does not subside. The master creates, holds exhibitions, organizes master classes for children, gladly participates in interviews and poses for photos, but most importantly, he is full of new ideas and projects. In 2016, the Tsereteli house-museum in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow opened its doors.
In 2014, the monumental artist became full cavalier Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", having been awarded the IV degree. The main secret of health and longevity, the sculptor calls endless work "without any vacations and breaks for vacations."
Work
- 1997 - Monument to Peter the Great (Moscow, Russia)
- 1995 - Memorial "Tear of Sorrow" (New Jersey, USA)
- 1983 - Monument "Friendship forever" (Moscow, Russia)
- 1990 - Monument "Good conquers evil" (New York, USA)
- 2006 - Monument to Saint George the Victorious (Tbilisi, Georgia)
- 1995 - Victory Monument on Poklonnaya Hill (Moscow, Russia)
- 1995 - Monument "Birth of a New Man" (Seville, Spain)
- 1995 - The Tragedy of Nations Monument (Moscow, Russia)
- 2016 - Monument to Shota Rustaveli (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- 2013 - Sculptural composition dedicated to women (Moscow, Russia)