Ivan Zholtovsky
Ivan Vladislavovich Scholtowski (born 15 Novemberjul / November 27 1867greg in Pinsk, .. † July 16, 1959 in Moscow) was a Russian architect of the Socialist Classicism of the Stalin era.
Life
Ivan Scholtowski closed in 1898 the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts from. Unlike many other architects of his time Scholtowski remained the favorite of style to true. He was from the beginning a representative of the traditionalist, classicist line of Russian architecture and thus evolved under Stalin's rule to one of the main representatives of the Socialist Classicism. In a time in which it was extremely difficult to obtain a travel authorization, I managed to visit a total of 26 times Scholtowski Italy to study the local Renaissance architecture. He translated Andrea Palladio's Quattro libri dell'architettura ( The Four Books of Architecture ) into Russian, and added a comment. His numerous students called him the " Pope ", which is a pun on his authority in the former Soviet architecture, which was compared with the infallibility of the Pope. Nevertheless Scholtowski the criticism of the Communist Party has been exposed. He was accused of his traditionalism and its reticence towards everything modern in architecture. In the late 1940s there was such a veritable campaign of the Soviet press against him, which was at that time quite dangerous. Despite all Scholtowski received further orders of organs of the state apparatus ( such as the NKVD and the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs ), as well as of party officials.