Manizer Matvey Genrihovich

Sculptor, People's Artist of the USSR (1958), Vice-President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (since 1947); Doctor of Arts (1939). The son of the painter G.M. Manizer. From 1899 he attended elementary school at the Central School of Technical Drawing of Baron Stieglitz in St. Petersburg, studied in the workshop of V.E. Savinsky (1908-1909). He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University (1909-1913), at the same time he was engaged in modeling with the sculptor I.I. Andreoletti; graduated from the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts (1911-1916), where he first studied with G.R. Zaleman, from 1913 - with V.A. Beklemishev, organically learning the traditions of the Russian academic school. He lived permanently in Moscow since 1941. The first Moscow work is the relief "Worker" (cement, 1920-1921, now on the facade of the Petrovsky Passage). Participated in the sculptural decoration of the Moscow metro stations "Revolution Square" (1937-1939; 20 paired compositions in small corner niches) and "Izmailovsky Park" (1944; sculptures of partisans), created monuments that are distinguished by a clear completeness of contours and volume: I.E. Repin on Bolotnaya Square (1958), bust of I.P. Pavlov in front of the building of Moscow State University on Sparrow Hills (1954), the tombstone of the artist G.G. Ryazhsky at the Vvedensky cemetery (1954). USSR State Prize (1941, 1943, 1950). He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.