Sandor Zicherman
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Sandor Zicherman (Russian: Шандор Зихерман) (born 1935, Ungvar, Czechoslovakia, (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine)) is a Soviet and Hungarian artist.
Zicherman has been a member of the Russian Union of Artists since 1965, and is a member of the MAOE (Association of Hungarian Creators), Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists , the Hungarian Sculptor's Society, the World Artists Association, the AIAP (Association International des Arts Plastiques) and FIDEM (International Art Medal Federation)
He is married to the actress Zinaida Zicherman, has two daughters and two sons.
Life
Sándor Robert Zicherman was born on the 6th of April 1935 in Uzhgorod. He spent his childhood in Beregszasz (Bereghovo), where he started his studies. In 1957, still as an autodidacta painter, he particitaped in his first exhibition in the Galery of Fine Arts in Uzhgorod. In 1958 he was accepted to the Collage of Arts and Crafts in Lwow and started his professional studies at the faculty of monumental painting. After the first year he moved to Leningrad where he continued his studies at the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design (now The Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy), also at the monumental painting faculty.
In 1964 after graduating [1] he moved to the Ural region, to the city of Perm, where he worked for the Fine Art Foundation on a number of comissions, as a specialist in monumental art. In the permian region he made a number of frescos, mosaics, sgrafittos and cereamic high reliefs and also three big gobelens. Apart from works linked to architecture, he also worked for the Permian Television, and the Permian Theatre. In 1966, after the Russian Republican Fine Art exhibition - „Socialist Ural” he was accepted to the Association of Soviet Creative Artists as a pledge member, later in 1975 as a full member. Between 1969 and 1972 he worked and lived in a number of different cities and regions, such as Lviv, Jurmala, Riga, Elista, Moscow.
In 1972 he moved to Tolyatti (Stavropol) at the invitation of the city administration for the organization of cultural and artistic life. He contributed to the founding of the Tolyatti Lyceum of Arts art gallery, and was instrumental in founding the Tolyatti branch of the Union of Artists. In 1987, Zicherman organized Russia's first Stone-carving Sculpture Symposium , in Tolyatti.
He later moved to Samara, where he married Zinaida Sokolova, and in 1989 to Budapest.[2] Of this move to Hungary, he said that "[A]ll of us are of mixed nationalities, I do not know a single person who is one hundred percent Russian or Mordovian". He describes himself as a Hungarian artist of Russian origin.[3] In Budapest, he and his wife opened a Russian theater and studio at the Russian embassy.[4]
By 1989 Sandor Zicherman participated with his works in great number All-Soviet and All-Russian exhibitions, including exhibitions representing Soviet art abroad (Hungary, Czechslovakia, NDK, Poland). His exhibits ranged from paintings to graphics, medals, ceremics, sculptures, gobelins. His mosaics, sgrafittos and memorials are still on show in many Russian cities. Appart from the group exhibitions, by 1989 he had more than 30 personal exhibitions in various cities of the Soviet Union and also participated in 13 different soviet or international two-month symposiums.
Works
By 1989 Sandor Zicherman participated with his works in great number All-Soviet and All-Russian exhibitions, including exhibitions representing Soviet art abroad (Hungary, Czechslovakia, NDK, Poland). His exhibits ranged from paintings to graphics, medals, ceremics, sculptures, gobelins. His mosaics, sgrafittos and memorials are still on show in many Russian cities. Apart from the group exhibitions, by 1989 he had more than 30 personal exhibitions in various cities of the Soviet Union and also participated in 13 different soviet or international two-month symposiums. Since his move to Budapest in 1990 he participated in more than 60 group and personal exhibitions in Budapest, in other Hungarian cities, as well as a great number of European countries
He does not adhere to a particular genre; among his works and graphics are portraits, avante-garde pieces, and classical landscapes, employing a variety of stylistic devices such as cubo-futurism, post-impressionism, and realism. In recent years, he has produced many works in the nu genre.
His work is represented in The Hermitage, the Samara State Fine Arts Museum, Togliatti Art Museum, The Museum of Regional Ethnography (Perm), the Museum of Fine Arts of Udmurt Republic, the Technical Museum of Autovaz (Togliatti), the Museum of Fine Arts of Mari El Republic (Joskar-Ola), The Joseph Boksay Fine Art Museum of Transcarpathia (Uzhgorod), Kalmyk Fine Art Museum (Elista), Museum of Medal Art (Wroclaw), War History Museum (Budapest) and many other museums in Europe.
Every year, Zicherman returns to Russia, where he holds a regular solo exhibition. In 2006, there was an exhibition of his works in Tolyatti, dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of AvtoVAZ. In 2007, the show was held in Samara.
Zicherman's work has sometimes been the target of thieves. In the early 1990s, he was one of the organizers of an exhibit from whence 171 pieces were stolen. In Samara, a plaque by Zicherman in honor of the 100th birthday of People's Artist George Shebuev was stolen, and in Tolyatti, a two-meter pink marble sculpture by Zicherman was stolen too.[5]
References
External links
- Review of Ziherman exhibition, Tolyatti City Gazette (Russian)
- Review of Ziherman exhibition in Samara (Russian)
- Review of Ziherman exhibition, Tolyatti newspaper Freedom Square (Russian)
- Review of Ziherman exhibition, CNA (Agency of Cultural Information) (Russian)
- Review of Ziherman exhibition, Tolyatti Chronograph (Russian)
- Review of Ziherman exhibition, Diana Stukanova, Volga Automobile Manufacturers' ladanews.ru (Russian)