Ivan Shadr

ABOUT IVAN SHADR

Russian/Soviet sculptor and medalist who sculpted Stone as a weapon of the proletariat and Woman with an Oar.

He studied at the Artistic Industrial School in Yekaterinburg and at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in St Petersburg.

He was born Ivan Dmitriyevich Ivanov and took his pseudonym from his hometown of Shadrinsk.

His parents raised him in the town of Shadrinsk.

His work can be seen at the grave of the second wife of Joseph Stalin .