Family Ernst Unknown confirmed that parting with it will be held in New York – TASS

NEW YORK, 13 August. / Corr. TASS Igor Borisenko, Ivan Pil’shchikov /. Relatives of the world-famous sculptor Ernst Unknown, who died on August 9 in the United States, confirmed that a farewell for him to be held on 17 and 18 August in the chapel in the New York district of Manhattan, and the funeral will be held August 19 at St. Nicholas Cathedral. This was reported by TASS on Friday journalist Oleg Sulkin, who was a friend of the world famous sculptor

“The relatives confirmed this information, it’s definitely” -. He said. The farewell ceremony will be held in the chapel at one of the oldest funeral homes Frank E. Campbell metropolis. Its representatives told Tass that “the ceremony, according to tradition, the relatives will be attending, participants will be able to pay tribute and lay flowers.” Funeral home there since 1898.

The funeral service will be held in the Ernst Unknown St. Nicholas Cathedral at 12:00 local time in Manhattan on 19 August. As told Tass Secretary Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA father Nicodemus, “the service will hold the bishop of Naro-Fominsk, John”.

Friends of the Unknown previously reported that the sculptor is likely to be buried on a small island in Shelter Island (New NY). In the eponymous town on the island in recent years, the sculptor lived in a country house. “The widow (Anne Graham – approx Tass.) Expressed a wish to be buried on Shelter Island, where he lived,” – said Tass on Thursday artist Jeff Bliumis, who was a friend of the Unknown

The sculptor died in. Tuesday in the hospital, “Stony Brook” in New York. According Bliumis, it was very unexpected two days earlier Unknown felt fine.

Ernst Unknown Born April 9, 1925 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). 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. His monumental works 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.

Biography Ernst Unknown