Zicherman Sándor

1935 - 2021

Biography

Sándor Zicherman was born on the 6th of April 1935 in Uzhgorod. In 1958 he started his studies in the Collage of Arts and Crafts in Lvov.

After the first year he moved to Leningrad to continue his studies at the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design (now The Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy) monumental painting faculty, graduating in 1964. After this he was working as a freelance-artist in many Soviet Union's cities such as Moscow, Perm, Riga, Elista, Jurmala, Togliatti and Samara doing commissions for the Fine Art Foundation, including a number of frescos, mosaics, sgrafittos and ceramic high reliefs, and tapestries.

Since 1957 he took part in a number of collective and later personal exhibitions. In 1967, after his first Russian Republican Fine Art exhibition he became a member of Association of Soviet Creative Artists (first pledge member and in 1975 full member). In 1972 Sandor moved to the automotive industry city of Togliatti. During his stay he organized the city’s own Association of Creative Artists, initiated the building of new art studios to lure new artists, a fine art gallery and contributed to the opening of an art school. In 1987 Sandor organized and participated in the First Russian Stone-carving Sculpture Symposium in Togliatti.

By 1986 he participated in 30 personal exhibitions and 29 All-Soviet and All-Russian exhibitions, including exhibitions representing Soviet art abroad, with paintings, graphics, medals, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries.

In 1989 he moved to Budapest with his family. Since 1990 he added more than 60 group and personal exhibitions, to his already long track record, in countries such as Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, England, Portugal, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Romania and the US.

His works can be found in a number of museums in Russia, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, including the Hermitage, the State Fine Arts Museum of Samara, the Togliatti Art Museum, the Museum of Regional Ethnography in Perm, the Museum of Fine Arts of Udmurt Republic, the Technical Museum of Autovaz, the Joseph Boksay Fine Art Museum of Transcarpathia, the Kalmyk Fine Art Museum, the Museum of Medal Art and the War History Museum in Budapest.