Ivan
Alexandrovich Semiryakov

After graduating in 1908, the Yekaterinburg industrial art school, worked for major jewelry firms of the capital. In 1910 he returned to the Urals. He was one of the organizers of the art cooperative processing anhydrite in the village Krasnyy yasyl. Developed new models for the Sverdlovsk lapidary works. Very popular model night lamp — white stone owls. I. A. Semiryakov — member of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Soviet artists.

(1886, Nizhny Tagil, Russia – 1963, Sverdlovsk), artist and stone Carver. In 1903-1904 she studied at the Ekaterinburg art-industrial school. In 1905-1909 he was in the city of Petersburg jeweler Faberge. In 1911-1917 he was the artist of Perm. provincial Zemstvo. Organized courses for craftsmen, developed the project of a vocational school, made up a book of samples of stone products. Was one of the organizers of lapidary art collectives in the village of Pokrovsky Asil and near the town of Kungur. APR. 1918 member of Perm. Union of free artists, taught courses in the Nar. the art school organized by the Union. From 1927 he lived in Sverdlovsk, worked lapidary factory, where he created a number of original models. Large place in his work took animal genre for a long time the gang of stone-cutters were in stock lamp "Owl" based on his model. In addition to the sculptures of small forms, known for his sculpture "Peasant woman with a scythe" and a bust of L. N. Tolstoy. Semiryakov – the participant of many exhibitions.

Lit.: Semiryakov Ivan // Serebrennikov, N. N. The Urals in the visual arts. Perm: Book. publishing house, 1959. P. 144; Semiryakov Ivan // Pavlovsky, B. P. stone-cutting art of the Urals. Sverdlovsk: KN. publishing house, 1953. S. 145; Yarkov S. P. the buildings of the former Ekaterinburg art-industrial school, where he worked and studied with prominent sculptors and artists [including Semiryakov I. A.] // proceedings of the arch of monuments of history and culture of the Russian Federation: Sverdlovsk oblast. M., 1983. S. 50-55: Fig. (Tr.Research Institute of culture; No. 119); Egorova E. I. Inspired a revolution / E. I. Egorova, V. S. Sausage// homeland: local historian. collection of Perm, 1987. P. 214-219.

(Source: encyclopedia of "Perm Krai", E. I. Egorova)