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Dimitry Gerrman

Hand, 3/7 Bronze, 6 x 5 x5 inches

Gerrman was born in 1955 in Gomel, Belarussia, USSR. He became interested in sculpture at a very early age. In 1970 he graduated from the sculpture department of the Glebov Art College in Minsk. At the age of 24, Gerrman moved to St. Petersburg and enrolled in the prestigious Mukhina Academy of Art and Architecture. He graduated in 1985 with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Department of Monumental Sculpture. Dimitry then taught sculpture and composition at the Mukhina Academy until 1989.  In 1986 he became a member of the Artists Union of the USSR.

In 1978 he completed his first commission, a monumental relief that was dedicated to the Russian Revolution on a public building in Gomel, Belorussia. In 1980 he became a student at the Vera Mukhina Academy of Arts and graduated in 1985 with honors. Dimitry then taught sculpture and composition at the Vera Mukhina Academy until 1989. In 1986 he became a member of the Artist Union of the USSR. Until 1989 he took an active part in national exhibitions and worked on commissioned projects such as the Monument of Victims of World War II, and a composition for The Sports Center in Siberia with eight life-size figures as well as a life-size, equestrian statue in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 1990 Dimitry Gerrman arrived in the United States. Since then he received numerous commissions including a Lester Levy Humanitarian Award which U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski became the first recipient of. In 1994 Gerrman created the sculpture Crying Violin which became an International Elie Wiesel Holocaust Remembrance Award. It was presented to Steven Spielberg for his movie Schindler's List. In 1996 he became a member of the National Sculpture Society.  His sculptures Circle of Time, 1999, (Beaux-Arts Building, New York) and Reflection, 2000, reflect his philosophical point of view. Russian cultural heritage combined with classical tradition underlies his work. He constantly searches for self-expression by exploring variations on different themes and compositions, and by experimenting with plasticity of form and sense of rhythm.

Gerrman's works can be found in museums and public places such as the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, The United States Senate in Washington, DC and the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.