Group sculpture “Craftsmanship is immortal”

Note

The pattern was created for Kasli Tradesman school No. 18. Since the second half of the 1940s it was regarded as an “trademark composition” of Kasli tradesman school No. 18 and symbolized Soviet labor reserves. At the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, the school was awarded a large bronze medal and an honorary diploma for this work. At the Belgian exposition, the school exhibited a version of the cast iron casting where an old master is holding a figure of a ballet dancer in his hands (pattern “Maria” by the Moscow sculptor O. P. Tayezhnaya-Cheshuina). There are five known versions of the sculptural compositions “Craftsmanship is immortal” created in the 1950s: the Kasli worker may be holding in his hands miniature fingers of a ballet dancer, a discus thrower, a weightlifter, a horse with a horsecloth or a miniature openwork jar.