I haven't written anything about Uzhhorod sculptures for a long time, so it's time to go back to our traditional #uzhhorodsculptures column and talk about the 22nd sculpture on my list. And it is dedicated to the painter Gluck Gabriel.
Who is Gavrilo Gluck?
Gavrylo Martynovych Gluck is a Ukrainian painter. Honoured Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR since 1963. Gluck painted genre paintings, portraits and landscapes.
A painter born in mystical Transylvania. He had to live in Moldova, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and finally Ukraine. Somewhere the artist was considered "undesirable", somewhere the creative personality was suppressed by military duties. And this allowed the painter to open up better.
Art critic Olena Polyanska noted the artist's constant attraction to the image of workers: loggers, collective farmers, to their existence in the fields and mountains. This is a notable feature of the work of a realist artist.
The work that brought Gluck European fame was the painting "Lumberjacks", written in 1954. Step by step, the author approached the implementation of his plan, performed many sketches. In the centre of the composition "Lumberjacks" - the figures of two young loaders. One of them, in a white shirt, stepped over the deck, the other leaned over: the dynamics of life are multilingual and optimistic. In 1958, Gluck was awarded a large silver medal at the World's Fair in Brussels for his painting The Lumberjacks.
Why is the sculpture located in Uzhhorod?
From 1931 to 1933, Gluck studied at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Budapest. At that time, the artist's family moved to Uzhhorod, which was part of Czechoslovakia. However, after some time the situation in Hungary changed and he was advised to leave the country.
Then, Gavrilo moved to Romania in 1933, where he was almost immediately sent to the army for a year and a half. After demobilization in the spring of 1936, the artist was unable to travel to Czechoslovakia due to his citizenship, where his parents were, and he had to go to live in Bucharest.
After Bessarabia joined the Soviet Union, Gavrilo Martynovych entered the second year of the art school in Chisinau. But all his plans were thwarted by World War II. Gluck was mobilized into the labour army: he worked in the technical connection, on the construction of the railway and other facilities in Dnepropetrovsk, Elista, Stalingrad.
In 1947 Gluck moved to Transcarpathia. He lived and worked in Uzhgorod until his death in 1983.
What is the history of sculpture?
The idea to create a mini-monument to the famous artist by sculptor Mykhailo Kolodko originated in 2011. It took a year from conception to realization of the idea, and on a tiny stretch of road between hundreds of cars, another one appeared - you won't see it anywhere else today.
The Soviet Willis, a car driven by the famous artist Gavriil Gluck, stands on a stone block. In the car behind the wheel - an artist, next to - an easel and a painting that made the author famous - "Lumberjacks". In this mini-composition, the author portrayed the essence of the artist.
Where can you see the sculpture?
The sculpture is located in the city of Uzhhorod on Vakarova Street, 7
The exact GPS coordinates are 48.625797, 22.302831
You can also save my page in Pinmapple.
[//]:# (!pinmapple 48.625797 lat 22.302831 long d3scr)
Previous posts about sculptures
