Died sculptor Ernst Unknown – RBC

sculptor Ernst Unknown

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The sculptor Ernst Unknown died at the age of 91. According to Tass, he died in a hospital in New York after having been hospitalized because of severe pain in the stomach

On the 92 th year of life died the sculptor Ernst Unknown, told Tass his friend Jeff Plyumes. According to him, the unknown dead on Tuesday morning in the hospital, “Stony Brook”. Sculptor was hospitalized due to severe pain in the stomach

The death of the Unknown was unexpected, said Plyumes, -. Two days ago, he felt fine. Relatives of the sculptor has not yet decided where he will be buried; this issue will be resolved in the environment on the MSK.

Hospital “Stony Brook» (Stoney Brook University Hospital) is located in the state of New York. Radio “Liberty” reports that unknown died in New York.

Also, the death of the Unknown wrote on his Facebook Oleg Sulkin, whose radio “Freedom” refers to another sculptor. “Died Ernst Unknown. I still can not say anything, the tears come close. Stunned. Suppressed. This is a great loss – for Russian culture, for all those who knew this extraordinary man “-. Sulkin wrote

Later Sulkin told Tass that the unknown fell ill on Monday night. He was in Shelter Island (New York) in a country house. His wife, Anne Graham drove him to the hospital, where he stayed Unknown night and in the morning, around 8 o’clock, he died.

Ernst Unknown Born April 9, 1925 in Yekaterinburg. In 1943 he volunteered for the front, and in April 1945, as a second lieutenant, was seriously wounded. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

In the period from 1946 to 1947 he studied at the Latvian Academy of Arts in Riga. In 1954 he graduated from the Moscow Art Institute named after Surikov.

In 1955, the unknown became a member of the Union of Artists. However, he was expelled in 1962 after the exhibition “On the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists”, where exhibited sculptor, visited Nikita Khrushchev

In 1976 sculptor emigrated to Switzerland, and in 1977 -. In the United States.

Since 1989, often came to Russia. Among his works at home – Taffy statue dedicated to the victims of repression in the Soviet monument “Mask of Sorrow” in Magadan, the song “Revival” in Moscow, 10-meter monument to the dead miners of Kuzbass in Kemerovo, a monument Diaghilev in Perm.