Dmitry Vladimirovich Gorlov (1899 - 1988)

Dmitry Vladimirovich Gorlov

Dmitry Vladimirovich Gorlov (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Горлов) was a Soviet artist of the twentieth century. He is known as a graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, master of decorative and applied plastic art and is considered the founder of Soviet animalistics.

Dmitry Gorlov is the author of monumental and decorative and easel sculptures, as well as toys made of different materials. He created a fountain and bas-reliefs for the Moscow Zoo, as well as reliefs on the monument to the fable writer I. A. Krylov on the themes of his fables. Gorlov also worked at the Gzhel ceramic factory, creating animal statuettes.