Nationality Russian Awards Lenin Peace Prize 1962 | Name Konstantin Simun | |
Full Name Konstantin Michailovich Simun Born 6 April 1934 (age 89) ( 1934-04-06 ) Leningrad, USSR Known for Sculpture, Drawing, Painting | ||
Education Imperial Academy of Arts | ||
Konstantin Simun: The Sacred in the Profane, an exhibition at the Museum of Russian Icons
Konstantin Simun (born 1934) is a Russian sculptor living and working in Boston, United States. He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1934. He is most well known for his large-scale monuments, including "Broken Ring", a monument to the "Road of Life" on Lake Ladoga, near Saint Petersburg, and "Totem America," exhibited for a decade at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. He is a recipient of awards from the International Dyagilev Prize "For Devotion to Art", the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation.
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- Konstantin Simun The Sacred in the Profane an exhibition at the Museum of Russian Icons
- Biography
- References
Biography
Konstantin Simun was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1934. He studied sculpture at the secondary school of arts at the I.Repin Art Institute (Leningrad), then at the Tallinn Art Institute (Estonia), and from 1953 to 1957 at the I. Repin institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
In 1958 he became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR.
Since 1988 he has been living in the US.
Simun has created numerous works which have been widely exhibited throughout Russia and the United States. He is the creator of the 1966 monument "Broken Ring" on Lake Ladoga (near St. Petersburg, Russia), which brought him international recognition, and is acknowledged as one of the most significant memorials of World War II.
Simun's works are in the permanent collections of Russia's largest museums, such as the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moskow, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Perm Gallery in Perm, as well as in private collections.
His work "Totem: America" was exhibited at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1993 to 2002, and brought him great popularity in the US.
He is the creator of the memorial to puppeteer I. Fokin installed in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2001.