Leonid Pozen
Illustration — Portrait of Leonis Pozen by Nikolai Yaroshenko (1885) • Illustration — Zaporozhian Cossack Leonid Vladimirovitch Pozen (born February 26, 1849, Obolon, Poltava Oblast — January 8, 1921, Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg)) was a Russo-Ukrainian sculptor and politician. Most of his works were made using wax and then cast in bronze at the K. Werfel factory in St Petersburg. His early works show his attraction to animal sculpture.
Also recorded as Leonid. Pozen · Leonid Volodymyrovych Pozen · Vladimirovich Pozen · Leonid Vladimirovich Pozen
Leonid Pozen
Nikolai Yaroshenko · Public domain
- Born
- 1849 · Obolon.
- Died
- 1921 · Saint Petersburg.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Occupation
- sculptor · painter · lawyer
- Education
- Imperial Kharkov University · Imperial St. Petersburg University
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Illustration — Portrait of Leonis Pozen by Nikolai Yaroshenko (1885) • Illustration — Zaporozhian Cossack Leonid Vladimirovitch Pozen (born February 26, 1849, Obolon, Poltava Oblast — January 8, 1921, Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg)) was a Russo-Ukrainian sculptor and politician. Most of his works were made using wax and then cast in bronze at the K. Werfel factory in St Petersburg. His early works show his attraction to animal sculpture.
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His realism placed Pozen alongside the painters Vasily Perov, Grigory Myasoyedov, and Ivan Kramskoy.
The authorities additionally record the headings Leonid. Pozen, Leonid Volodymyrovych Pozen, Vladimirovich Pozen, Leonid Vladimirovich Pozen and Leonid Vladimirovitch Pozen. He was the child of Vladimir Michajlovič Posen and Sofia Trubacheeva.
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1849
Leonid Pozen born at Obolon.
1921
Leonid Pozen died at Saint Petersburg.
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Leonid Pozen is recorded as sculptor, painter and lawyer.
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