DERYUZHINSKY Gleb

(1.VIII.1888, Smolensk - 1975, USA)
Father D., Vladimir Fedorovich, - a prominent lawyer, senator, professor at St. Petersburg University, editor of the Journal of the Ministry of Justice. In 1906-11 he. D. studied law at university and at the Drawing School in OPKh I.I. Andreoletti. In 1911 and 1912. in Paris he studied with P. Werle at the Academy P. Julien and in the studio of Jean-A. Enzhalbera. In 1913-18 he. studied at the sculpture department at the Academy of Arts G.R. Zaleman and VA. Beklemisheva. In the early period played little impressionistic sculptures of plaster, marble, bronze and terracotta: Ivan the Terrible and Malyuta Skuratov, the ball, Kiss, Countess From. de Roben with a greyhound, portraits of Prince B.B. Golitsyn, artists VV. Belyashina and BC. Radlov the composer SS. In April, 1917. Arts pupils have been authorized to delegate to a committee LRIT. In 1918, Mr.. graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with the title of the artist and went to the south. In 1919, Mr.. achieved post a sailor on a ship sailing from the Crimea in the United States, and settled in New York. In 1922, Mr.. D. Icarus sculpture shown at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of drawing, in 1923. - A few wooden sculptures in the exhibition of Russian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, in 1926. received a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Philadelphia for sculpture Eve. Held independent exhibitions in New York galleries Macbeth (1928) and Grand Central (1929). In 1930-50 he. performed which multiple sculptural portraits, including AI. Siloti, SV. Rachmaninoff, Lillian Gish, Henry Hamonda etc.. Bust English portraitist J. Lauer (1928) was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum, the bust of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial installed in his home in New York. Created a series of symbolic and religious tracks: Petta (bas, 1927), Annunciation (1930), Europe (1939), Modern Crusader (1942), SW. John the Baptist (1947), dig Angel (1970), etc.. Spent more solo exhibitions in galleries Vildenshteyn (1933), Guild (1942), Grand Central (1969) in New York and participated in group exhibitions in the U.S., as well as in London and Brussels. Are affiliated with the National Academy of drawing and the National Bureau of sculptors. He received awards of the World Exhibition in Paris (1937), the National Academy of drawing (1938), American professional art league (1957, 1958), the National Arts Club in New York (1961. and 1964) and others. Photos of sculptures D. often published in American magazines.

Lit.: Capital and the estate, 1917. -? 81-82; Among collectors, 1922. -? 7 / 8. - P. 61; 1923. -? 5. - P. 40, 1924. -? 3 / 4. - P. 44, Krasnaya Gazeta, 1924, October 10. -? 231; Memories of Rachmaninoff. - M., 1962. - T. 2. - P. 242.