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Leonid Posen

Leonid Posen (1849 - 1921) was active/lived in Russian Federation.  Leonid Posen is known for Sculpture.

The sculptor Leonid Vladimirovich Posen is remembered predominantly for his monuments to literary figures Gogol and Ivan Kotliarevsky in Poltava, Ukraine.  As a child, he modeled his first sculptures from mouldy bread; as an adult, Posen worked mostly in wax. 

He began his artistic self-education by copying the works of Lieberich and Lanceray before moving onto sculpting portraits from life.  Compared to his artistic predecessors, Posen’s sculptures are less dramatic.  Unlike Lieberich, whose focus was hunting, or Lanceray, whose obsession was horses, Posen made the peasant the center of his art.  Posen’s sculptures reject heroic iconography in favor of representing the humble and humane. 

Posen studied Law, never abandoned the profession and worked in the Russian judicial system for more than forty years.  He pursued the arts independently and was self-taught in drawing and sculpture, but once the Peredvizhniki movement accepted him a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1438 characters.]  Artist bio

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