Abram
Lazarevich Malakhin

(D. R. on the list of Islands 1901-5-7) Diploma work in CVC - name unknown, assessment - satisfactory. The training took place at the sculpture faculty.

In the history of Russian art of the XX century sculptor Abram His entered as master of the terrain. His best-known works – reliefs Piskarevsky memorial cemetery, reliefs on the facade of the skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya embankment, the alley of pioneers in Artek. Exhibition of easel painting of Abraham Malachina opened in the Moscow house of the sculptor.

"Malachina absolute taste", - says one of his former student Alexander Matveev. In the early 20's studying at the Leningrad Academy of arts, and later graduate school, all from the same teacher. From the Matveevsky school Abram His will almost unpromising for the Soviet art of an artist: the creativity for it will be the actual form, beauty and harmony of the human body. The object of attention for the artist – timeless, eternal.

Mr His, the son of the sculptor: "the Human body was the criterion of beauty. The basis and content of all his works. Actually, this was the reason for many years to declare him a formalist".

His life can be divided into two major periods: the Leningrad and Moscow. The Frontier – The Great Patriotic War. Dying it will pick up in the streets of besieged Leningrad and sent to the evacuation. After the war Abram His will win the contest for the monument to the Saltykov-Shchedrin, will come to Moscow and stay here forever. Will be in demand, especially as the master of the terrain. These ceramic cartouches – the last work of the sculptor - made for maps of the Soviet Union. So our country was presented at the exhibition "Expo-70" in Japan. In them the unity of plastic and colors, the form and content of the synthesis to which His sought in each work.

Mr His, the son of the sculptor: "Many of his works in the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov gallery is a little – two or three works only. Mostly in Russian. And they continue to buy, store".

(article - Russian educational channel)