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Vera Mukhina
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Soviet sculptor (1889-1953)
Vera Mukhina was a prominent Soviet sculptor who created some of the most iconic public monuments of the 20th century, most famously "Worker and Kolkhoznik," a towering stainless steel sculpture that became a symbol of Soviet industrial power. Her work matters because it exemplifies how art was used to promote communist ideology and remains an important part of both art history and the cultural legacy of the Soviet Union.
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It sits within the topics 1889 births, 1953 deaths and 20th-century Russian painters.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- Place of birth
- Riga
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- lecturer
- Educated at
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière
- Employer
- Imperial Porcelain Factory
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Notable work
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
- Student of
- Antoine Bourdelle
- Field of work
- fashion
- Image
- Mikhail Nesterov, Vera Mukhina, 1940, Tretyakov Gallery 26668; from goskatalog.ru.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1889-06-19
- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Commons category
- Vera Mukhina
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- name in native language
- Мухина Вера Игнатьевна
- date of death
- 1953-10-06
- has works in the collection
- Tretyakov Gallery
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Encyclopedic overview
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (Russian: Ве́ра Игна́тьевна Му́хина; French: Vera Moukhina; 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1889 – 6 October 1953) was a Soviet sculptor and painter. She was nicknamed "the queen of Soviet sculpture". She was one of the members of the art association ‘The Four Arts’, which existed in Moscow and Leningrad from 1924 to 1931.
Biography
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