Stanislav Netšvolodov

Stanislav Netšvolodov (also Netchvolodov, born August 2, 1935, in Kyiv)^[1] is an Estonian sculptor and medal artist.^[2] He is a professor at Jagiellonian University.^[3]

Stanislav Nešvolodov
Born	(1935-08-02) August 2, 1935 (age 90) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Nationality	Estonian
Occupation	Sculptor

Stanislav Netšvolodov has created bronze, wood, and stone sculptures and monuments.^[2] He is also involved with painting and graphics. Netšvolodov's hobby is medal art,^[4] and he has created several medals for the University of Tartu (including the university's honorary doctorate medal and the Johan Skytte medal [et]).^[5]

Education

Netšvolodov graduated from the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute in 1959 with a degree in architecture.^[2][6]

Career

Netšvolodov started creating sculptures in 1962,^[2] and he worked at a private sculpture studio in Irkutsk. From 1966 to 1970, he was the chairman of the Irkutsk branch of the Russian Union of Architects.^[1] He then worked as an artist at the Ars foundation in Tartu and as a restorer of church interiors in Poland.^[6] He has also worked as a sculpture lecturer at several art schools.^[6]

Netšvolodov is a member of the Tartu Artists Union [et] and the Metal Artists Union (Estonian: Eesti Metallikunstnike Liit).^[7]

Works

• Plaster bas-relief of Friedrich Puksoo [et] (1990), located on the 3rd floor of the University of Tartu library building in the Puksoo Gallery
• Bronze figure of a boy with a dog on the grave of Peeter Ott^[8]
• Bronze cross on the grave of Juri Lotman and Zara Mints^[9]
• Juri Lotman's bas-relief on the wall of the university building on Lossi tänav [et] (Castle Street) in Tartu^[9]
• Bronze bust of Juri Lotman in the study building of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tartu, Jakobi tänav [et] (James Street)
• Memorial column on the grave of the Auli family in Raadi cemetery in Tartu (1994); bronze and granite

Awards

• 2002: Anton Starkopf Fellowship^[10]