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Valentin Andreevich Galochkin ((ロシア語:Валенти́н Андре́евич Га́лочкин)) (November 22, 1928 – November 3, 2006) was a prominent Soviet (Ukrainian, Russian) sculptor. ==Biography== Galochkin was born in Dnipropetrovsk (USSR) on November 22, 1928. His father Andrey Andreevich Galochkin (Russian) came from the Kaluga region and was a restaurant chef, later a modeler. Mother Olga Grigorievna Liberman (Jewish) came from the town of Chegorin (Ukraine) and worked as an accountant. Honesty and decency were of high value in the family which later shaped the sculptor's position of not supporting what he didn't hold for right. When World War II began in 1941 the family was evacuated to the Krasnodar region, then to Uzbekistan, returning in 1944 to Dnipropetrovsk. From 1944 till 1949 Valentin Galochkin attended an art school in Dnipropetrovsk and learned from Professor Zhiradkov. From 1949 till 1955 he studied sculpture at Kiev Institute of Fine Arts. His favorite professor was Max Isaevich Gelmann. Galochkin's graduation work "Steel smelter" (1956) was such a success, that the institute cast it in bronze and sold it to the USSR Ministry for Culture to exhibit in Lvov State Art Museum (Ukraine). Galochkin was immediately appointed head artist of Kiev sculpture works and remained at this post till 1959. At the age of 29, Galochkin was nominated for the Lenin Prize for his work "Hiroshima" (1957); at that time this was the highest award in the USSR, however the prize went to 83-year-old Sergey Konenkov. Very soon the young Galochkin's career came to a halt due to conflicts with the communist authorities. The sculptor refused to join the Communist Party of the USSR and actively support the soviet propaganda seeing his mission as an artist in achieving recognition regardless of his personal connections with the party leaders. Although he had to accept government's orders until 1991 for propaganda-serving monuments in Russia and the Ukraine he did his best to express general human values and reduce communist pathos. In 1968, Valentin Galochkin won a prize in a Festival of young artists in Vienna. In 1960s and 1970s he visited the UK, France, Egypt and Greece. He was impressed by the Louvre in Paris. As he later recalled, he had so long waited to see this "temple of art" that right at the entrance, after having seen the statue of Nike of Samothrace, he couldn't help crying and for two hours didn't dare to enter the museum. Valentin Galochkin was married three times. The first marriage in (1958) was to Yulia Ukader (Soviet, Ukrainian sculptor). A daughter from the first marriage is Tatiana Ryabokon, born Galochkina (painter). The second marriage in (1978) was to Elena Bokshitskaya (cinema-reviewer). A daughter from the second marriage is Anna Bokshitskaya (journalist). The third marriage in (1980) was to Lidia Galochkina, born Abramenko (Russian sculptor, graphic artist). Sons from the third marriage are Igor Galochkin (programmer) and Andrey Galochkin (engineer). Valentin Galochkin was a sportsman, a Master of Sports in swimming and volleyball, hunter and fisherman. In 1986, after the Chernobyl disaster, the sculptor moved with his family from Kiev to Moscow. With the Dissolution of the USSR in 1991, as with many artists, Valentin Galochkin faced financial difficulties and for nine years had to live by selling his older works. In 1999 he emigrated to Wismar in Germany, and in 2002 moved to Hamburg. In 2002, he felt ill and had to undergo a few operations. He died from a heart attack on 3 November 2006 on a trip to Russia, in Moscow. He was buried in Nakhabino cemetery on November 8, 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valentin Galochkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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