Shadr (Ivanov) Ivan Dmitrievich

Sculptor, artist. He studied at the art and industrial school in Yekaterinburg with T. Zalkaln (1903-07), at the drawing school of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts in St. Petersburg (1907-08), in Paris (1910-11), where he took advice from E. A. Bourdelle and O. Rodin, and in Rome (1911-12). In 1923, Shadr took part in the design of the All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft Exhibition in Moscow. A member of the Society of Russian Sculptors since 1926, I. D. Shadr is the author of sculptures of the so-called “money men”: figures of a worker, a peasant, a Red Army soldier and a sower (plaster, 1922, Russian Museum; bronze castings - in the Tretyakov Gallery), created by order of Goznak for reproduction on banknotes. The first three sculptures became the basis for the release of the fourth standard issue of postage stamps of the RSFSR, the first standard issue of the USSR, and partially for two. The first artistic stamped postcard and stamped envelope in the USSR came out with Shadrovsky stamps. Sculptures of Ivan Dmitrievich were also reproduced on loan bonds and government securities of the USSR. Ivan Shadr created the high relief “Fight with the Earth” and the sculpture “Cobblestone - a weapon of the proletariat”. The latter, in addition to Moscow, was installed in Chelyabinsk, Lvov, Shadrinsk, Mongolia and Romania. Ivan Shadr and sculptor P.I. Tayozhny were the authors of the model of the Order of Lenin. In 1934, Ivan Shadr began work on the sculpture “Girl with an Oar” for the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Culture in Moscow. Its reduced copy is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery. Most of the works of I. D. Shadr (in particular, “Storm of the Earth”, “Cobblestone - a weapon of the proletariat” and others) are in the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia in Moscow. In 952 he posthumously received the Stalin Prize.