Alexander Bourganov
Alexander Nikolayevich Bourganov is a Russian sculptor, a National Artist of Russia, and a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts.
Life and career
His recent works include a monument to Alexander Pushkin located at George Washington University in Washington DC ; a statue of John Quincy Adams, the first U.S. Ambassador to Russia and later President of the United States, located in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow ; and a statue of poet Walt Whitman located on the campus of Moscow State University. In 2001 his studio in Moscow was given the status of a State Museum, known as Bourganov's House. His other works around Moscow include a series of fountains and statues on Ukrainsky Boulvar, near the Hotel Ukraine.Bourganov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and graduated from Moscow State Artistic and Industrial College. He received a PhD. in art history.
In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
Chronology of the principal sculptural works of Alexander Bourganov
- Monument commemorating the 400th birthday of the city of Oryol
- "Memories of an old worker"
- Decorative relief-emblem on the Central House of Filmmakers in Moscow
- Monument "Friendship of Peoples: in honor of the 400th anniversary of the union of Udmurtia and Russia
- "Victory" statue at the Central House of Artists, Moscow
- "War and Peace", Germany
- "Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space", Expo 86, Canada
- Portraits in bas-relief of Russian artists Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov, Karl Bryullov, Sergey Konenkov, Ivanov and Shishkin at the Tretyakovskaya Station of the Moscow Metro
- Composition with nine figures, "War and Peace"
- Monument to Sophia Perovskaya, Kaluga
- Portrait of Ivan Tsvetaev for the Pushkin Museum, Moscow
- Monument to Soviet Soldiers killed in Belgium during the Second World War
- Monument to the poet Mikhail Lermontov, Moscow
- Monument to the writer Ivan Bunin, Voronezh
- Fountain "Princess Turandot" on Old Arbat Street
- Monument to Alexander Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova on Old Arbat Street
- Monument to Alexander Pushkin at George Washington University in Washington D.C.
- Gallery "Legendary People"; bust of great figure in world culture: Andrei Tarkovsky, Joseph Brodsky; Rudolf Nureyev, Ivan Bunin, G. Fogeler..
- "The Golden Lion."
- Sculptural ensemble on Ukrainsky Boulvar in Moscow: "Allegory of Air"; "Allegory of Water"; "Forests of Ukraine"; "Fountain "Youth"; *Decorative sculpture "Friendship"; monument to E.F. Gnesina.
- Memorial plaque to S. Richter, Moscow.
- Decorative bas-reliefs on the building of the Bogoliubov Library, Moscow.
- Sculptural ensemble "Ecology" in the Square on Sivtsev Vrazhye.
- Sculptural park 'Understanding knowledge" on the square in front of the film theater Brest in Moscow..
- Statue of John Quincy Adams in front of the U.S. Embassy, Moscow.
- Statue of Walt Whitman in front of the Humanities Faculty Building at Moscow State University.
- Sculpture of Alexander Pushkin at the Sheremetyevo International Airport.