Vera Mukhina1889–1953Гелиос
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Гелиос” now? Collection: State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. Unknown.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- Рб-22938
In the catalog
Sources
- State Russian Museum
- Image: State Russian Museum — © State Russian Museum
In the life of Vera Mukhina
The whole life1912–1914
Life and study in Paris
Mukhina lives in Paris, attending the private Colarossi studio and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where she studies with the sculptor Émile Antoine Bourdelle.
1914
The hospital and the meeting with Aleksey Zamkov
After completing nursing courses, Mukhina began working in a military hospital, where she met a young military doctor, Aleksey Zamkov.
until summer 1914
Italy and the return to Moscow on the eve of the war
After Paris, Mukhina travels through Italy, studying the sculpture and painting of the Renaissance; she returned to Moscow in the summer of 1914, only weeks before the outbreak of the First World War.
1915–1916
Assistant to Aleksandra Ekster at the Chamber Theatre
In 1915 and 1916 Mukhina worked as assistant to Aleksandra Ekster at Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theatre in Moscow.
