Vladimir Tsigal

Vladimir Tsigal (born 1917), Russian sculptor, graphic artist, writer, teacher. Younger brother of artist Victor Tsigal. Studied under Ivan Shadr, Vladimir Domogatsky, Leonid Sherwood, Alexander Matveyev and Romuald Jodko at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts. Fought in the Second World War. Member of the Union of Artists. Sculpted portraits and monuments. People's Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the USSR. Lives and works in Moscow.
Born: 1917, Odessa
Movements:
Socialist Realism

Sculptor, graphic artist, writer, teacher. Younger brother of Victor Tsigal, brother-in-law of artist Mirelle Shaginian (1918–2012), father of sculptor Alexander Tsigal (born 1948) and painter Tatyana Tsigal (born 1951), uncle of artist Sergei Tsigal (born 1949), grandfather of fashion designer Masha Tsigal (born 1980), great-uncle of actress Marietta Tsigal-Polischuk (born 1984). Born in Odessa (1917) in the family of Jewish engineer Yefim Tsigal (1883–1948) and his wife Adela (1890–1936). Attended Vissarion Belinsky School No. 1 at 20 Peshaya (now Bogdanov) Street in Penza (1927–30) and moved with his family to Moscow (1930), where he studied under Ivan Shadr, Vladimir Domogatsky, Leonid Sherwood and Alexander Matveyev at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts (1937–42). Served as a war artist in the Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War (1942–44). Collaborated with Lev Kerbel on the Soviet war memorials at the Tiergarten in Berlin, Seelow Heights in East Germany and Kostrzyn nad Odr? in Poland (1945). Returned to Moscow and studied under Romuald Jodko at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts (1946–48). Member of the Union of Artists (from 1943, secretary for sculpture 1966–72), Art Council of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR (from 1950) and the Communist Party (from 1952). Married Elizaveta Ignatskaya (born 1924) and had children Alexander (1948) and Tatyana (1951). Sculpted portraits of Nikolai Ostrovsky (1948), Sergei Chaplygin (1952), Count Alexander Suvorov (1959), Iri and Toshiko Maruki (1960), Gherman Titov (1962), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1964), Josif Chaikov (1965), Vasily Botylyov (1965), Mikhail Svetlov (1965), Rockwell Kent (1967), Corneliu Baba (1967), Richard Sorge (1968), Anne Frank (1969), Vladimir Mayakovsky in America (1972), Yakov Belopolsky (1983), Saul Rabinovich (1983) and Marietta Shaginian (1985) and reliefs of Anne Frank (1997) and Sergei Yesenin (1998). Designed monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ulyanovsk (1949), Anton Makarenko in Moscow (1952), Nil Filatov in Moscow (1960), Lieutenant General Dmitry Karbyshev at Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria (1962) and in Moscow (1980), Musa Cälil in Kazan (1967), Fyodor Poletayev in Ryazan (1971), Sergei Yesenin in Moscow (1972), Richard Sorge in Baku (1981) and Moscow (1985), Ho Chi Minh in Moscow (1990) and Fridtjof Nansen in Moscow (2002). Designed the Soviet-Polish Brotherhood Memorial in Lenino in Belarus (1967) and the monument to the heroes of the Civil War and Second World War in Novorossiisk (1977–82). Wrote a series of books entitled Never Ceasing To Be Amazed (1986, 1994, 1997). Recreated reliefs of angels for the Church of Christ the Saviour (1995–99) and collaborated with his son Alexander on the figures of St George on the cupola of the Senate Palace in the Kremlin (1998) and Justice on the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in Moscow (2005). Won the Stalin Prize (1950), Ilya Repin Prize (1966), Victor Popkov Prize (1996), Lenin Prize (1984) and Moscow Prize (1997). Awarded a gold medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1963), Mitrofan Grekov Silver Medal (1969) and the Friendship Order of Vietnam (1998). Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1964) and full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1978), Russian Academy of Arts (1992) and the National Academy of Arts of the Kyrgyz Republic (1998). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1968), Honoured Artist of the People’s Republic of Poland (1974), People’s Artist of the USSR (1985). Headed the creative studio of sculpture at the Russian Academy of Arts (from 1991). Lives and works in Moscow. Contributed to exhibitions (from 1942). Contributed to the Exhibition of Diploma Works by Graduates of the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art of the Academy of Arts of the USSR in the Moscow Fellowship of Artists at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1948), Thirty Years of the Soviet Armed Forces (1918–48) at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Moscow Fellowship of Artists in Moscow (1948), All-Union Exhibition of Works by Young Artists Dedicated to the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Komsomol at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (1948), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1949 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1949), Thematic Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1949), Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, Political Satire and Graphic Art in the House of the Artist at 48 Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1949–50), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Palace of Culture of Colliers in Karaganda, Akmolinsk, Museum of Fine Arts in Nizhny Tagil, New Path Collective Farm Club in Nizhny Tagil, Vladimir Lenin Club in Molotov (now Perm) and Sverdlovsk Picture Gallery in Sverdlovsk (1952), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1952 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1952–53), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists in Kalinin (now Tver), Yaroslavl, Scherbakov (now Rybinsk), Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), Saratov and Astrakhan (1953), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Theatre of Musical Comedy in Omsk (1954), District House of Officers in Novosibirsk (1954), District House of Officers in Chita (1954), House of Officers in Voroshilov (1954–55), House of Officers in Vladivostok (1955), District House of Officers in Khabarovsk (1955), House of Officers in Blagoveschensk (1955) and District House of Officers in Sverdlovsk (1955), Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists from the Collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery Dedicated to the Tercentenary of the Reunification of the Ukraine to Russia in Kiev (1954) and Kharkiv (1955), All-Union Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, House of the Artist and Union of Artists at 25/9 Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1955), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Kaluga Regional Museum of Art in Kaluga (1955–56), Museum of Local Studies in Zlatoust (1956), Museum of Local Studies in Magnitogorsk (1956), Regional Museum of Local Studies in Chkalov (1956) and Simferopole Museum of Art in Simferopole (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the House of Officers in Blagoveschensk, Museum of Local Studies in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Sovetskaya Gavan, House of Officers in Vladivostok, House of Officers in Voroshilov and the Museum of Local Studies in Stalinsk (1957), II Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1965), Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006), The Art of Sculpture: Mastery and Inspiration at the Russian Academy of Arts (2011–12), Sculpture – Mastery and Inspiration at the Gallery XXI Century in Moscow (2013), Exhibition of Soviet Fine Art at the III World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin (1951), Soviet Fine Art in the People’s Republic of China in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hankou (1954–56), Exhibition of Soviet Fine Art at the V World Festival of Youth and Students in the People’s Republic of Poland in Warsaw (1955), Exhibition of Soviet Graphic Art and Sculpture in the Mongolian People’s Republic and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in Ulan Bator and Pyongyang (1956), Exhibition of Works of Fine Art of Socialist Countries at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1958) and one-man shows at the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow (2007) and Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (2012–13).

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