Work Vera Mukhina

theatrical costume design (1916)

mukhina s celebrated work far giant monument worker , kolkhoz woman centerpiece of soviet pavilion @ 1937 international exhibition in paris. world s first welded sculpture. 24-meter-tall, 75-ton monument made of plate of stainless steel on wooden frame, plates connected innovative method of spot welding. 1 hand of each figure holds respectively hammer , sickle, 2 implements joining form hammer , sickle symbol of soviet union. in 1947 sculpture, on permanent display @ all-russia exhibition centre, became logo of russian mosfilm studio. renovated , re-installed on higher pedestal in 2009.

muhkina s other work includes:

peasant woman (1927), freestanding bronze, in tretyakov gallery in moscow
fertility (1934), , bread (1939), both in friendship park, moscow
three cornice figures on pediment of winter theater in sochi, 1937
the mourning mother figure in monumental group demand peace (1950–1951). mukhina served coordinator of other sculptors project.
maxim gorky monument (1952) in nizhny novgorod
the statue of tchaikovsky in front of moscow conservatory
the finial figure of mir ( peace ), armillary sphere , dove (1954), volgograd planetarium




^ richard overy, dictators: hitler s germany, stalin s russia, p. 260 isbn 0-393-02030-4
^ history of welding (in russian)
^ elizabeth waters, female form in soviet political iconography, 1917–32 in ed. barbara evans clements et al., russia s women: accommodation, resistance, transformation, university of california press, berkeley , los angeles, 1991, p. 240 isbn 978-052-00702-40