Portrait of Mikhail Arkadievich Kerzin

Bas-relief. On the square field depicts a portrait of an elderly man with round eyeglasses. With a high strand of hair above her high forehead, shortly cropped wavy hair, his gaze looks up, deep-set small eyes under long eyebrows, a long pointed nose, tightly compressed narrow lips, vigorous styling with a cheek and a high dry chin, wears a shirt with a tie and a jacket. Kerzin Mikhail Arkadyevitch (16(28).03.1883-19.09.1979) was a Soviet Belarusian and Russian sculptor, a teacher. Honored Art worker of the BSSR (1939), a professor (1950). He graduated from Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts (1912). He worked in easel & monumental-decorative sculpture. He was a teacher at Velizh Art School (1918-1923), Vitebsk Art College (1923-1932), I.Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture in Leningrad (1949-1979).