Bidspirit auction | Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow

Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow - Alexei Ilyich Bashlakov 1936 Slaboda/Orel - 1980 Hanover - ”Relief”- (1961) Cherry wood. 27 x 78 x 5.5 cm. Signed and dated on the reverse: Baschlakow 1961. Exhibition label: Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1964, Haus am Waldsee. - Cf.: Lange, Rudolf. Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow. Hanover 1989. The relief is the first sculpture by Bashlakov. Bashlakov came to Germany through the turmoil of war. He studied from 1954 to 1959 at the Werkkunstschule Hannover under Gerhard Wendland. In 1967/68 he was awarded the Villa Massimo Prize in Rome.