Kyiv , Ukraine
What was the working location for Joseph Chaikov from 1908 to 1910?
Joseph Chaikov Joseph Moisevich Chaikov ( , also spelled , among other spellings , Tshaykov , Tchaikov , and Tchaikovsky ; 1888 – 1979 ) was a Russian Imperial and Soviet Russian sculptor , graphic designer and teacher of Ukrainian Jewish descent . Biography . Born in Kiev ( present-day Kyiv , Ukraine ) and initially trained as an engraver , Chaikov studied in Paris in the years 1910 through 1914 . In 1912 he co-founded a group of young Jewish artists called Mahmad , and published a Hebrew-language magazine with that name ; in 1913 he participated in the Salon dAutomne . He returned to Kiev in 1914 . He was co-founder , along with El Lissitzky , Boris Aronson and others , of the Jewish socialist Kultur Lige in Kiev , led sculpture classes there , supervised a childrens art studio and illustrated childrens books , and in post-revolutionary Kiev focused on billboards and agitational propaganda . In 1921 he published the Yiddish-language book Skulptur , advocating avant-garde sculpture as a contribution to a new Jewish art . This book was also the first book on sculpture to be published in Yiddish . Chaikov moved to Moscow to teach at Vkhutemas from 1923 to 1930 , alongside fellow sculptors Boris Korolev and Vera Mukhina . All three designed and taught cubist sculpture in the distinctively Russian Cubo-Futurism style , radically geometric and highly dynamic . From 1929 Chaikov was the head of the Society of Russian Sculptors . In 1932 , after the end of the period of artistic freedom , all of these cubists turned back to Socialist Realism and produced more classically styled work . In the 1930s his work was prominently shown at the two Soviet worlds fair pavilions , for the 1937 Paris Exposition and the 1939 New York Worlds Fair . His work in Paris was an extensive frieze of nine-foot figures , the People of the USSR , carved on two steles flanking the entrance to the pavilion . Fragments of the Paris work were unearthed in rural France in the 2000s , after having been presented to the French labor union after the fair , relocated to a holiday château , broken up by pro-Nazi youth during the occupation , and buried for 50 years . Chaikov continued to work in a variety of genres , techniques and scales . He was named an Honored Artist of the USSR in 1959 , and his work is in the permanent collection of MOMA . He died in Moscow . Major works . - People of the USSR – friezes on steles flanking the entrance to the Soviet Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition , for architect Boris Iofan ( recently rediscovered ) - Bas reliefs for the Soviet Pavilion at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair , for architect Iofan - The golden Friendship of the Nations fountain at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre , Moscow , circa 1954 ( with fellow sculptors Z . Bazhenova , L . Bazhenova , A . Teneta , and Z . Rileeva ) External links . - online biography with images