A friend of the sculptor: requiem for Ernst Unknown will be held in New York – TASS

NEW YORK, 12 August. / Corr. Ivan Pil’shchikov TASS /. Relatives of Ernst Unknown, who died on August 9 in the United States are planning to hold a memorial service for the world-famous sculptor in New York, presumably at the end of this week. This was announced on Thursday, TASS Bliumis artist Jeff, who was a close friend of the Unknown

“The funeral service will be in Manhattan, in the Orthodox Church on Friday or Saturday, is now solved.” -. He said. Bliumis noted that the funeral will be held in the Orthodox rite

“The widow. (Anna Graham – approx Tass.) Expressed a wish to be buried on Shelter Island (town on the same island in the state of New York – approx TASS. ), where he lived, – he told one of the sculptor -. Finally, it is not yet decided. ” Unknown, as reported previously Bliumis, he died on Tuesday in New York State in the hospital, “Stony Brook”. Before hospitalization his health rapidly deteriorated.

Ernst Unknown Born April 9, 1925 in Sverdlovsk. WWII veteran, paratrooper, Commander of the Order of the Red Star. After the war, while he taught drawing in the Suvorov Military School in Sverdlovsk. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Riga, graduated from the Moscow Surikov Art Institute.

In 1976, Unknown he emigrated from the Soviet Union. Since 1977 he lived and worked in the United States. The monumental work of the Unknown are in museums and are installed in different cities around the world. Russia’s only museum named after the wizard has been opened in his home town.

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