The
creative oeuvre of the eminent Russian sculptor animalist Nicolai
Lieberich (1828-1883) presents itself the significant epoch in the
history of Russian bronze plastic arts. The exhibition presents about
80 works. The greatest part of them belongs to the Moscow collector
Alexei Egorov. He had gathered the largest collection of sculptures
by N.Liberih who was the academic of the Emperor's Academy of Arts.
Among these works are Standard-Bearer
of Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment (Military
Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal, St.Petersburg),
sculptural composition for a gold medal awarded to Emperor Alexander
II at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1867
(St Petersburg State Agrarian University),
and Sculptural
composition presented to Alexander II on the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of his enlistment in the Horse Guards (Russian
Museum).
Several
works that had not been presented earlier were not presented to the
viewers, are given by St. Petersburg museums. There are also
presented the drawings by Nicolai Lieberich (mostly the sketches for
so-called army gifts) from the collection of collector Konstantin
Zhuromsky (Moscow).
The
exhibition is organized with the financial support of OJSC Severstal
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