Demut Malinovo biography

Vasily Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malnovsky was born in the year in the family of “carved affairs of the master” and already from childhood showed a lively interest in creativity. Therefore, after the death of his father, the young man was sent to comprehend the basics of art at the educational school at the Imperial Academy. Vasily was lucky to become a student, and in the future and the main ward of Mikhail Kozlovsky himself.

Under the leadership of the famous sculptor, the first successful work of Vasily was completed, and for one of them he was even awarded the title of “Classic Artist”. That is why when Mikhail Kozlovsky died, Vasily Demut-Malinovsky took a lively participation in the competition for the implementation of the tombstone for the teacher, and won. Being a young and inexperienced, but very talented person, Vasily managed to create a unique statue in which even then one could see the special style of the future master and teacher Vasil Ivanovich.

The tombstone consisted of a pedestal with a burial urn, covered with drapery. But the central figure of the statue was the figure of a genius of death, which extinguishes the fire of life. As was supposed to be the best graduate in his class, Demut-Malinovsky went abroad to improve his qualifications. Returning from Italy, Vasily was taking a lot of successfully completed work with him, but due to hostilities in Europe, almost all of them were forever lost.

Immediately upon arrival, it is included in the work on the decoration of the Kazan Cathedral, for which he performs the statue of Andrei the First -Called. For this work of his work, the Academy Council assigns him the title of ADIDUNT professional, and invites to occupy a teaching post. After that, Vasily Ivanovich is mistaken for the statue of the “Russian stages”, which portrayed the heroic and selfless struggle of the simple Russian people against the army of Napoleon.

For this work, the master is awarded the title of professor at the Imperial Academy. And in the year, fruitful perennial cooperation begins with an equally famous and successful sculptor S. Together, they were engaged in the decoration of the Mining Institute, the building of the Admiralty, created the interiors of the Elagin of the Palace, the Mikhailovsky Palace here Demut-Malinovsky, the Mikhailovsky Garden, the Public Library and the Alexander Theater, as well as the Arks of the Main Staff.

As a rule, they ordered large, monumental sculptures, work on which was carried out in a single creative impulse. Close friendship and the unity of perception of the world led to the fact that friends of sculptors even began to sculpt almost the same. To this day, art historians argue about what details of joint compositions belong to Demut-Malinovsky and which Pimenov.