Azgur biography

Born on January 2 15 years in the village of Molchana of the Moshkanskaya volost of the Sennensky district of the Mogilev province, now the Sennes district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus. In the years he studied at the private studio of Yu. Pan, then up to a year - at the Vitebsk Art and Practical Institute at S. in the years - at the Vitebsk art technical school at M. in the years - at the Higher Art and Technical Institute in Leningrad now - St.

Petersburg at R. Bach, V. Zheeva, M. Manizer, V. In the Kiev State Art Institute and in the Tbilisi in the Tbilisi, and at the Tbilisi Kiev. The Academy of Arts at Y. Nikoladze and E. In the years, Zair Azgur created sculptural portraits of the Belarusian Enlighteners of F. Skorina, years, V. Tapinsky year, the Belarusian writer Zmitroka Biaduli and others. Since the year, the summer sculptor participated in art exhibitions.

Since the year, the creative activity of Azgur continued in the Belarusian capital of the city of Minsk. In years, he worked on the sculptural portraits of F. Dzerzhinsky, A. In the same years, he created a series of sculptural portraits of state, party leaders Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov, Iosif Visserionovich Stalin years, Elena Dmitrievna Stasova, as well as cultural culture leaders L.

Aleksandrovskaya, years, Yakub Kolas year, Yanka Kupala year and others. In the years, Z. Azgur is a participant in exhibitions of Belarusian art in Moscow. In the year, he was awarded the honorary title “Honored Artist of the Belarusian SSR”, and next year he is awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for participation in the exhibition of the works of Belarusian artists in the days of the decade of Belarusian art in Moscow, and besides this, he is accepted as members of the Union of Artists of the USSR.

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the honored sculptor and patriot of his homeland worked in the city of Gomel by the illustrator of the Poster Gazeta “Drive the fascist reptile”, and also collaborated in the front-line press. In years he worked at the Central Headquarters of the Partisan movement in Moscow, creating a gallery of sculptural portraits of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War L.

Dovator year, A. Eremenko, G. Zhukov year, K. Rokossovsky year and others. After the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders, Z. Azgur returns to Minsk, where he works as the chief artist of the Government House. In the post-war years, Azgur continued to work on the sculptures of the military cycle: a portrait of Colonel General P. Zaslonov year, Russian commanders P.

Bagration year, Barclay de Tolly for the year and others. At the end of the x, he creates a new series of portraits of heroes of socialist labor E. Kukhareva, T. Shkurko a year, E. Lesnichs year; The cycle of portraits of the figures of the Belarusian culture of F. Skorina year, aunt A. Pashkevich year, V. Dedyushki year, K. nettle year, S. Selikhanov year and others. In the X, Z.

Azgur creates a series of sculptural portraits of the heads of government and the leaders of the communist parties in the world: Mao Ze-Dun year, Palmiro Togliatti year, Maurice Torez for the year, Ho Shi Mina and others; Culture figures: the Belarusian composer N. Oladov year, the Chinese writer Lu Sin, the year, the Soviet sculptor E. Vuchetich year, the Belarusian poet M.

Luzhanin year and others. In the year for participating in the exhibition of the works of Belarusian artists in the days of the decade of Belarusian literature and art in Moscow, Z. Azgur was awarded the Order of Lenin. In the year he was elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts; He was awarded the gold medal of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and a silver medal at the World Exhibition in Brussels for a portrait of an Indian writer and public figure Rabindranate Tagore for the year.

In years, he created portraits of cultural figures: the singer I. Bagrim the year, the film operator V. in the year of Z. Azgur was elected deputy chairman of the Belarusian Republican Committee for the Protection of the World, and in the year he was awarded the medal of the Soviet Foundation of the World and the gold medal “War Forestry”. In the year, sculptural portraits have been created by the Azgur: the violinist A.

Amiton the year, writers of E. Dolmatovsky, B. Polevoy and other cultural figures. He was elected chairman of the Belarusian Republican Committee for Assistance to the Soviet Fund of the World. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 2, for an outstanding contribution to the development of Soviet monumental art and, in connection with the seventy anniversary of the birth of the Azgur Zair Isaakovich, was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Medal "Sickle and the Hammer".

In that year, he was awarded the gold medal of the Italian Academy of Fine Arts, and made a trip to France to a meeting of the commission of government experts to prepare recommendations on the social status of creative workers. In the years, the sculptural portraits of the film operator I. Weinerovich, the Belarusian poet-humanist of the Renaissance of N.

Gusovsky, the playwright A. Movzon and others, were already far from young Z. Azgur. Zair Isaakovich Azgur was a multifaceted person. He is also known as a writer, from which two publications “unforgettable” first edition came out - a year and five parts of the book “What I Remember”,,,, years.

More articles and notes of z.Azgura was published in newspapers and magazines: “The Belarusian land calls for revenge! In the funds of the National Library of the Republic of Belarus, a book of the year of publication was preserved, in which the future eminent sculptor acted as an illustrator. He lived in the city of Minsk. He died on February 18. The laureate of two Stalinist prizes was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin, in Minsk at the house in which he lived, and in Vitebsk on the building in which he studied, memorial boards were installed.