Assembly of Characters of Leonid Baranov: Solo Exhibition of the Celebrated Sculptor in Veliky Novgorod (Novgorod the Great)

The solo show of the renowned sculptor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Leonid Baranov in Veliky Novgorod presents more than 80 sculptural works, including portraits of eminent figures of Russian history, sculptural theme compositions and his favorite characters such as Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Belonging to the generation of the 1970s, Leonid Baranov combines classical traditions of easel and monumental sculpture and innovations in the construction of form and artistic image. He works in various genres and materials – bronze, copper, aluminum, plaster, wood and has developed his own independent plastic language.

Leonid Baranov, born in 1942, is one of the leading masters of sculpture in today’s Russia. His works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, A. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and other major museums of Russia and CIS countries. They are in private collections in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vienna, London, New-York, Rome. Among his well-known works are his public monuments to A. Suvorov in Moscow, to the architects V. Bazhenov and M. Kazakov in the Tsaritsyno complex (Moscow), to Peter I and Doctor Bidloo on the territory of N. Burdenko Military Hospital in Lefortovo (Moscow), as well as to Peter I in Rotterdam, Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Baden-Baden and many other monumental sculptures.




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