Sergei Volnukhin

Monument to Ivan Fyodorov, 1909

Sergei Mikhailovich Volnukhin (1859–1921) was a Russian sculptor, best known for his instruction to a generation of Russian artists at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, teaching alongside Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy.

Biography

Volnukhin was born at 1859 in Moscow, in the family of a merchant. Studied at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture (MUZHVZ, 1873-1881 and 1883-1886), and also at the St. Petersburg Academy of arts (1882). He lived in Moscow. [1]

Among Volnukhin's students:[2]

Notable among his own work is the 1909 monument to Ivan Fyodorov in Moscow (with architect Ivan Mashkov.) Volnukhin's papers are held at the Tretyakov Gallery.

References

  1. ^ "Brief biography". Arthive website.
  2. ^ "Biography in russian". Tram of Arts website (in Russian).

Further reading

  • Doronina, Lyudmila N. (2008). Мастера русской скульптуры XVIII–XX веков. Скульптура XVIII–XIX веков (in Russian). Moscow: Belyi Gorod. pp. 387–391. ISBN 978-5-7793-1404-6. OCLC 259743748.
  • Konenkova, Alla K. (2021). "Скульптор Сергей Михайлович Волнухин. Страницы биографии". In Konenkova, Alla K.; Mikhaylova, Svetlana I. (eds.). Христианская культура и славянский мир. Сборник трудов конференции (collected papers) (in Russian). Moscow: Kosygin University. pp. 62–79. ISBN 978-5-00181-211-1.