Honored. art worker of the RSFSR (1937). Graduated From Moscow. Univ.. worked in the Studio of S. M. Volnukhin. From 1904 to participate in exhibitions. One of the organizers and a member of the ORS (1926-31), in 1926-28 before. this Ob-VA. Taught in ISKCON. hood. the Institute. Sculptural portraits ("Boy in a fur coat", 1904; "the old Woman", 1906; "L. Shestov", 1917; "J. Byron", 1919; "Tolstoy", 1922; "Lenin", 1925; "Pushkin", 1926; "Portrait of son", 1926, "Marx", 1931; "M. Gorky", 1937), the projects of a number of monuments and headstones (tombstone, A. I. Sumbatov-Yuzhin, 1928) and other works.
1876, Odessa - 1939, Moscow Childhood V. N. The domogatskiy took place in Switzerland and in Ukraine, his father was a Ukrainian landowner, a doctor by profession. However, with the teenage years of the future life of the sculptor is inseparably linked with Moscow. At Moscow University he received his law degree (1897-1902). Fascinated by the sculpture, Domogatskii began taking private lessons from S. M. Volnukhin. Later used the advice of the painter S. V. Ivanov. Several times Domogatskii went to Paris, where he studied European art; in 1901 he visited Italy. Of particular influence on his work was provided by the work of P. P. Trubetskoy, Auguste Rodin, animal painter R. Bugatti. In 1907 in Paris, he enthusiastically studied the technique works in marble. In 1908 - 1910 he taught at the SHPU. Domogatskii worked in a genre, animal and portrait sculpture. Statuettes in bronze and plaster - "the boy in the fur coat" (1904), "the boy on the horse" (1904), "Cows in the herd" (1909), "Calves" (1909) - created in line with the creative trends of Trubetskoy and volnuhin. And his work in marble "Portrait of an old actor" (1913), "Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov" (1915), "Tana" (1916), "Girl" (1916), "Portrait of Lev Shestov" (1917) and others have plastic which is derived from Rodin. Thus, in the works of Domogatskiy Russian sculpture has a non-mechanical fusion of two different genres. All the work of the sculptor chamber, by its nature, designed for the lyrical, unhurried dialogue with the audience. Becoming a member of mtkh, 1914 Domogatskii participated in exhibitions TPHV. Active, creative, scientific and public work of the sculptor falls in the post-revolutionary period. Continuing to work in portrait, Domogatskii executed the portraits of V. A. Vatagin (1923), N. A. Semashko (1924), V. V. Veresaeva (1929), Karl Marx (1931). In addition, he has participated in competitions for monuments to Alexander Pushkin and Maxim Gorky (1938), and worked on the creation of a memorial sculpture in the spirit of the new age: they made tombstones theatrical figures A. I. Sumbatov-Yuzhin (1928) and A. V. Petrov-the girl (1934) at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. As Chairman of the sculpture section of gakhn, Domogatskii engaged in the theory and history of sculpture, conducted experimental research associated with the problems of technology, material, form and texture in sculpture restoration. Participated in the preparation of articles about the sculpture for the first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and Dictionary of art terminology. I also wrote several theoretical articles that remained unpublished. GTG headed the Department of sculpture; in 1937 became Professor of the Moscow state art Institute.
