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Kasli cast-iron sculpture was produced in Kasli ( Southern Ural), from the mid-19th century. A large collection, including an elaborate pavilion from the 1900 Paris World Fair, is displayed in the
Kasli castings are characterised by skilled craftsmanship visible in exceptional clarity and smoothness of the metal surface. High-quality iron was smelted on a wood fire and cast in consistently fine sand.
Castings made by Kasli masters, using their own models
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Image:Каслинский_чугунный_павильон.jpg, Cast-iron pavilion from 1900 Paris Exposition
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The Kasli factory
About Kasli iron sculptures
Vladimir Lisin
Kaslinsky Cast Iron Exhibition Hall , nashural.ru
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Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
The Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, established in 1986, is the largest art museum of the Urals region of Russia. It is based in Voevodina Street on the banks of the Iset River in the city of Yekaterinburg (known as Sverdlovsk between 1924 and ...
. There is also a Kasli Museum of Iron Sculptures.
In 1860, the Kasli foundry was honoured with the Gold Award of the Free Economic Society. The following year, it was awarded a Silver Medal at the Saint Petersburg Textile Exhibition. There followed diplomas, silver and gold medals from international exhibitions in Paris (1867), Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876), Copenhagen (1888), Stockholm
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(1897) and Paris (1900).
Technical expertise
Kasli castings are characterised by skilled craftsmanship visible in exceptional clarity and smoothness of the metal surface. High-quality iron was smelted on a wood fire and cast in consistently fine sand.
Original works
Many notable sculptures and décor in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, including iron furniture at the Winter Palace, were produced at the Kasli factory. TheYekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
The Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, established in 1986, is the largest art museum of the Urals region of Russia. It is based in Voevodina Street on the banks of the Iset River in the city of Yekaterinburg (known as Sverdlovsk between 1924 and ...
holds a collection of original sculptures by Vasily Fedorovich Torokin
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Reproductions
Some of the best examples are modelled on originals by well-known Russian and European sculptors including Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg and Eugene Lanceray.Gallery
Nikolay Laveretsky
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: "Russia" (1896)
References
External links
The Kasli factory
About Kasli iron sculptures
Vladimir Lisin
Kaslinsky Cast Iron Exhibition Hall , nashural.ru
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