Aleksandr Rukavishnikov
{{Short description|Russian sculptor}}
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Aleksandr Yulianovich Rukavishnikov ({{langx|ru|Александр Иулианович Рукавишников}}; born 2 October 1950) is a Russian sculptor.
Biography
Alexander Yulianovich Rukavishnikov was born to a family of sculptors Yulian Rukavishnikov and A. N. Filippova. Alexander Iulianovich is the third in a dynasty of hereditary sculptors. In 1974 he graduated with honors from the Surikov Moscow Art Institute (workshop of Lev Kerbel). For his thesis “Northern Fisherman” he receives a diploma with honors.{{Cite web|url=https://www.art-katalog.com/ru/biography/725|title=Рукавишников Александр биография|website=www.art-katalog.com|access-date=2023-04-30|archive-date=2023-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430221943/https://www.art-katalog.com/ru/biography/725}}{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/rukavishnikov-aleksandr-iulianovich|title=Рукавишников, Александр Иулианович|website=ТАСС|access-date=2023-04-30|archive-date=2023-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430221942/https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/rukavishnikov-aleksandr-iulianovich}}{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://news.rambler.ru/other/43728507-skulptor-aleksandr-rukavishnikov/|title=СКУЛЬПТОР АЛЕКСАНДР РУКАВИШНИКОВ|website=Рамблер/новости|date=22 February 2020 |access-date=2023-04-30|archive-date=2023-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430221944/https://news.rambler.ru/other/43728507-skulptor-aleksandr-rukavishnikov/}}
In 1984 he was awarded the honorary title “Honored Artist of the RSFSR”.
From 1986 to 1991 he was Secretary of the Board of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Since 1993, he has been the head of the Department of Sculpture at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. In 1997 he was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Rukavishnikov is a regular participant in all-Russian and international art exhibitions. Rukavishnikov's personal exhibitions were held at the Central House of Artists and in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow, at the Nassau Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), at the Dielemann Gallery (Belgium) and in other museums and exhibition halls around the world.{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://www.nn.ru/text/gorod/2017/07/28/50695881/|title=Потомок Рукавишниковых удивлен: почему родовое имение в Подвязье передали РПЦ (фото, видео)|website=Новости NN.RU|date=2017-07-28|access-date=2023-04-30|archive-date=2023-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430221942/https://www.nn.ru/text/gorod/2017/07/28/50695881/}}
The works of Rukavishnikov are kept in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Ludwig Museum, Siemens, Hermes, John Wilson, and numerous private and corporate collections.
In 2012, the Workshop of Alexander Rukavishnikov opened on Zemlyanoy Val.
References
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External links
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- [https://www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/articles/1-2018-58/inheritor-alexander-rukavishnikov-and-his-forebears Inheritor: Alexander Rukavishnikov and His Forebears] - Tretyakov Gallery Magazine, 2018.
Category:20th-century Russian sculptors
Category:21st-century Russian sculptors
Category:20th-century Russian male artists
Category:Russian male sculptors
Category:Russian modern sculptors
Category:State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates