Elena Munts

Sculptress, architect. Great-granddaughter of Rudolf Muntz (Dutch consul to Odessa), granddaughter of architect Oscar Munts (1871–1942), daughter of architect Vladimir Munts (1903–1974). Born in Moscow (1940). Studied at the Higher School of Art and Industry in Moscow (1959–65). Member of the Union of Artists (1969). Married writer Vladimir Kormer (1939–1986) and gave birth to a daughter called Tatyana (1970). Sculpted monuments to Osip Mandelstam at the corner of Old Garden Lane and Zabelin Street in Moscow (2008) and Boris Pasternak on Theatre Square in Perm (2009). Designed the tombstone of surgeon and transplantologist Valery Shumakov (1931–2008) at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow (2009). Lives and works in Moscow. Contributed to exhibitions (from 1967), including group exhibitions of Moscow artists in the Moscow House of the Artist at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1979) and the Art Moderne Gallery in Building 8 at 39/22 Bolshaya Ordynka Street in Moscow (1993).