Artists / Rukavishnikov Iulian

(1922-2000)
Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
People’s Artist of Russia.
Iulian Rukavishnikov - one of the most distinguished sculptors of the second half of the 20th century.
Iulian Rukavishnikov has created many monuments in Russia and other countries, works of monumental and decorative sculpture, a vast gallery of portraits. The sculptor worked in diverse techniques and materials, including bronze, marble, optic glass. In the 1980s, he took an interest in an absolutely new for him theme connected with the microcosm and called it “Evolution in Animate Nature”. He turned his studies of nature into intricate polychromic compositions comprising diverse materials.