Ivan Dmitrievich Shadr Biography

Ivan Dmitrievich Shadr, the real name Ivanov was born on January 30 of the year in the city of Shadrinsk now in the Kurgan region in a large family of Stolyar. In the year, Ivan was taken to Yekaterinburg to the factory of the merchants of Panfilov, where he was first a boy on the run, then a watchman and a loader. In the year, Ivan escaped from the factory. Without any preparation, he successfully passed the exam on drawing to the Yekaterinburg art and industrial school, where he studied up to a year.

From the year he studied at the highest dramatic courses of the St. Petersburg Theater School, in the drawing school of the Society for the Encouraging of the Arts of N. Roerich and the musical and dramatic school. Since the year, Ivan Dmitrievich began to use the pseudonym "Shadr". In the year, Ivan Dmitrievich went abroad. He studied in Paris by O. Rodin and E. Burdel, in Rome - at the Institute of Fine Arts.

In the year, Shadr returned to Russia, studied at the Moscow Archaeological Institute. In the year he went to Omsk to pick up his family, but remained in this city until the year.

There he made lectures on art. In the year, as soon as the railway message was restored, Ivan Dmitrievich returned to Moscow. Since the year, Shadr worked on the order of Goznak on the creation of the sculptures “Red Army”, “worker”, “peasant”, “sower”, the image of which was printed on banknotes, bonds of loans and government securities of the USSR. The first in the USSR art marked mail and marked envelope came out with the "Shadrovsky" stamps.

The sculptor found the prototypes of his heroes in the village of Jumpovoy Shadrinsky District. In the year, Shadr took part in the design of the All-Russian agricultural and artisanal and industrial exhibition in Moscow. His sculptures that were successful were demonstrated there. In the year, Ivan Shadr created the field sculpture “Lenin in the coffin”, which made it the chief master of the pre -war sculptural Leninian.

Ivan Shadr created a revolutionary-romantic, generalized symbolic images, for example, the high relief “Fighting the Earth”, the sculpture “Cobblestone-weapons of the proletariat”. Ivan Dmitrievich Shadr died on April 3 in Moscow. He was awarded posthumously by the Stalin Prize for the Gorky monument, built at the Belorussky Station in Moscow after the death of Ivan Dmitrievich by the sculptor V.

Mukhina, with the help of N. Zelenskaya and Z., is the name of Shadra by the Yekaterinburg Art College. Page 1 from