He was 91, recently congratulated and 70-летием Victory. A man of amazing destiny, passed through the Inferno. Soldier, hero, mother and father received two funerals. But he survived, although those who have seen the marks of his wounds, I think it is just incredible. ""I have a hole in the sculpture because I a hole in the body. No ribs after the injury, — he answered as-то to the question of his friend Henry Moore.

• Ernst UNKNOWN Dead soldier.
  Bronze
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• Ernst Neizvestny, Tree of life. 2004
  Moscow, the bridge "Bagration"
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After the war, Lieutenant, commander of the order of the red Star Unknown entered the Academy of arts in Riga, then in Institute. V. I. Surikov in Moscow and at the faculty of philosophy of Moscow state University. The most important works by Ernst Neizvestny, Soviet era are Prometheus in Artek (1966) and "Lotus Flower", is built near the Aswan dam in Egypt (1971). Highlight the biography of the artist became his open dispute with Nikita Khrushchev the exhibition "30 years MOSKh" in 1962. Eyewitnesses recall that the Unknown has shown remarkable courage in this dangerous ideological confrontation, was able to withstand the pressure. Ironically a few years the Unknown together with his wife Khrushchev had to punch in the top right to set his tombstone on the grave of the disgraced first Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.

Unknown all-таки had to emigrate in 1976. He was already more than 50 years, and in front of the famous sculptor of the Unknown was waiting for the unknown. He went to Switzerland, then in the United States. Worked hard, studied sculpture, painting, drawing, and lectures. After the restructuring, a new monument by Ernst Neizvestny was installed in the "Mask of sorrow" in Magadan, "in Memory of Kuzbass miners" in Kemerovo, the "Tree of life" in Moscow, the Monument to Sergei Diaghilev in Perm.

a remarkable man. Hero. Lump.

the year before, on the eve of the 90-летия, 1 channel recorded a series of interviews with the Unknown in his Studio in new-Йорке and made a rather Frank documentary film "I trust your madness". Time. It's time to revise it.

the home of Ernst Neizvestny, in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), his name will be named street and art school.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

• Ernst Neizvestny's Mask of sorrow. 1996
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Andrei Voznesensky
Unknown — Requiem
in two steps, with an epilogue

the memory of the Soviet Lieutenant
Army of Ernst Unknown,
killed in the attack 2-го Ukrainian
front.

Lieutenant Ernst Unknown.
For a thousand miles around
plain irons.
a fire iron.

In the attack the platoon did not raise,
but on top of the radio:
"— name is — your mother!"
And Ernst replies: "Is".

But wzwodem your land eating.
It is valiantly real.
Lieutenant Ernst Unknown

attack
one!

And death say, "get Away!
You're the one like your finger.
Against whom are you going?
Against the masses, Ernst!

Vs —
четырехмиллионнопятьсотсорокасемитысяячвосемь@-
сотдвадцатитрехквадратнокилометрового monsters
against —
against the army, Navy,
and carbon monoxide riff-raff,
vs —
culturallyexible,
against the national-социализма,
— against!

Against global atrocities.
You're dead, punk?.."
"Even though", — decides Ernst
And making
the First step!

And the Life said: "Eric,
live alive.
will Swing lilac squares
it is not for you — them
will not be —
1945, 1949, 196, 1963 — will not,
and only the formula of the slain mankind will be —
3 823 568 004 1,
and you can't get into University,
and will not move to sculpture,
and will never understand that the hot gypsum smells
as fresh milk,
will not be a workshop on Sretenke, which is locked
to the wire
will not be in hospital,
and April 14, 1964 not run a Dink and won't rely on
, a plaster model of the little finger with Oblivskiy manicure,
and she can never escape, can not escape
and will not resort the next day in the morning, and again will not run away,
and not escaped,
will neither dinky nor the Astronaut (or rather, will be, but not
for you, and for white Owl group, which is not
then climbed out of the trench),
and you never did —
no!
no!
not!..

Only mom slides the door
with the envelope in which death,
do you understand, Eric?!"
"Even though", — thinks Ernst.

But above Life and Death,
piercing light
, we require that-то third, —
than the allotted people.

Animal life take.
Only men give their lives.

Alarming and searchlight,
unlike animals, —
the ability to sacrifice
the only people.

Only Russia,
my only,
only, thank you
you've chosen me.

Lieutenant Ernst Unknown,
when surrounded by Babi,
as ichthyosaur drunk,
you sleep at my Desk,

when dudes and good
squeak that you are weak in the revelry,
I feel
as a monument
tossing and turning about you.

I head to reveal
and politely tell them:

"of Course, you are freshly shaven
and the taste didn't cheat on you.
But was killed you
for the Motherland on the spot?"

1964

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