Today world-famous Russian sculptor Ernst Neizvestny celebrates 90-летний anniversary. ARTinvestment.RU congratulates Ernst Iosifovich happy birthday!

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Ernst Neizvestny was born 9 April 1925 in the city of Sverdlovsk in the family physician Iosif Moiseevich and child of Unknown poetess Bella Abramovna Dujour (1903-2006), repressed in 1930-х. At the age of 17 volunteered for the Red Army. At the end of the great Patriotic war he was seriously wounded and was in a state of clinical death. Was posthumously awarded the Order of the red banner, and his mother was sent official notification of his death. But Unknown vigil@

In 1947 he entered the Academy of arts in Riga. He continued his education at the Institute. V. I. Surikov in Moscow and at the faculty of philosophy of Moscow state University. The work of the third year he received the international medal and was purchased by the Tretyakov gallery. The fifth course "Builder of the Kremlin Fedor Horse" was nominated for the Stalin prize and was bought by the Russian Museum. The most famous monumental works of the Unknown combined in a cycle over which the master worked from 1956. A Central product cycle — sculpture "Tree of Life" (2004, Moscow, the bridge "Bagration").

For his work in the 1960-е was criticised by the then head of the Soviet Union N. S. Khrushchev. Later created a tombstone N. S. Khrushchev (1975, Novodevichy cemetery).

the Most significant works of the Soviet period — "Prometheus" all-Union pioneer camp Artek (1966), "Lotus Flower", which was built around the Aswan high dam in Egypt (1971).

Since 1955 — member of the sculpture section of the Moscow branch of Union of artists of the USSR. Until 1976 he worked in the USSR. In 1976 was exiled from the USSR in Shveicariu@

1980-х lot and has successfully exhibited in the gallery Magna (Magna Gallery) in San-Франциско (USA). By order of the gallery "Magna" in the late eighties has created a series of "Man through the Wall" dedicated to the collapse of communism. During these years he lectured at the universities of Oregon, Eugene and at the University in Berkeley California@

In 1994 he made the sculpture TAFE@

IN 1996 graduated from the monumental 15-метровое work "Mask of sorrow" to the victims of repression in the Soviet Union, now installed in Magadan. Created the monument "in Memory of the miners of Kuzbas" (2003, Kemerovo, Bank of the Tom river).

In Ottersberg (the Swede. Uttersberg, Sweden) there is a Museum of sculptures Neizvestnogo@

Several sculptures of crucifix was purchased by Pope John Paul II for the Museum Vaticana@

One of the last works by Ernst Neizvestny — monument to Sergei Diaghilev (2007, Perm).

Ernst Neizvestny — foreign honorary member of the Russian Academy of arts. Professor of philosophy at Columbia University member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences member of the new-Йоркской Academy of arts and Sciences member of the European Academy of arts, natural Sciences and Humanities. Laureate of the State prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts in 1995 for a series of sculptural works in bronze (1996). The Order Of Honour (Russia, 2000).

Source: rah.ru

Five years ago, 85-летнему the anniversary of Ernst Iosifovich, we wrote a special article artist of the week: Ernst Neizvestny, today and pleased to congratulate Grand master with 90-летним anniversary and veteran of Ernst Neizvestny, with 70-летием Victory!