Died the famous Soviet sculptor, a citizen of the world, the author of such works as the 75-meter “Lotus Flower” – mounted on the Aswan dam in honor of the friendship of peoples; “Tree of Life”, set in the capital bridge “Bagration” (sculpture was conceived in 1956 after the events in Hungary, but implemented only half a century later), figurines TEFI and even tombstones Nikita Khrushchev. Secretary General at the exhibition in 1962, said: “As you are sitting angel and devil. If you win an angel, help, if the devil – to destroy. ” History has judged otherwise
One of the distinguishing features of the handwriting of the Unknown -. Drawing sculptures from parts of the human body. Sculptor himself has always gravitated toward bronze, but his monumental works, usually cast in concrete
The most significant work of Ernst Unknown Soviet period -. “Prometheus” at the All-Union Young Pioneer camp Artek (1966). In the years 1970-1971 he made a huge relief at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology in Zelenograd. To obtain an order for it, the sculptor asked for help from a member of the Politburo Alexei Kosygin. He gave the go-ahead, and the Union of the artists had to agree. Instead ordered 300 square meters sculptor made 970 in just 5 months.
In 1975, the unknown creates a bas-relief on the building of the archive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat (now the building of the State Archive). It was the last work created by them in the Soviet Union before the emigration
Unknown worked at home until 1976, when he emigrated to Zurich.; the following year he moved to the United States. In the 1980s, Unknown exhibited many times in Magna Gallery in San Francisco; exhibition was a great success. By order of the gallery in the late eighties Unknown created «Man through the Wall» series on the collapse of communism. During these years, Anonymous has lectured at the University of Oregon in Eugene and the University of Berkeley in California
After the fall of the Soviet regime Unknown “returned to his homeland in the works”:. Statuette “Orpheus” was established in 1994 to award Taffy, in 1996, over 15-meter “mask of sorrow”, dedicated to the victims of political repression. Sculpture installed in Magadan.
Museums Unknown exist Uttersberge (Sweden) and in Yekaterinburg, several crucifixes of the artist acquired by Pope John Paul II for the Vatican Museum. One of the last works of the sculptor – a monument to Sergei Diaghilev, established in Perm. In 1995, the unknown became the winner of the Russian Federation, in 1996 the State Prize was awarded the Order “For Merit” III of degree “for outstanding achievements in the development of the fine arts”, and in 2001 the Medal of Honor.
« to Lenta.ru “recalls the most significant works of the Master.
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