Khrushchev's tomb at the Novodevichy Cemetery was sculpted by Neizvestny.

Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny (Russian: Эрнст Иосифович Неизвестный) is probably the most famous Russian sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Ironically, his surname, often taken for a pseudonym, translates from the Russian as "unknown, unfamous". He currently lives and works in New York City. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 98 KB) Summary Nikita Khrushchevs grave at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 98 KB) Summary Nikita Khrushchevs grave at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ...

Neizvestny was born on 9 April 1925 in Sverdlovsk. His parents were purged in the 1930s. At the age of 17 Neizvestny joined the Red Army as a volunteer. At the close of WWII, he was heavily wounded and sustained a clinical death. Although he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner "posthumously" and his mother received an official notification that her son had died, Neizvestny managed to survive. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Photograph of snow-covered Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburgs Church on the Blood, built on the spot where the Tsar and his family were murdered. ... The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... Clinical death occurs when a patients heartbeat and breathing have stopped. ... The Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Battle Red Banner, better-known as the Order of the Red Banner (in Russian: Орден Крaсного Знамени Orden Krasnogo Znameni) on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War. ...

In 1947 Neizvestny was enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Riga. He continued his education at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute and the Philosophy Department of the Moscow State University. His sculptures, often based on the forms of the human body, are noted for their expressionism and powerful plasticity. His preferred material is bronze; but his larger, monumental installations are often executed in concrete. Most of his works are arranged in extensive cycles, the best known of which is The Tree of Life, a theme he has developed since 1956. Map of Latvia Coordinates: Founded 1201 Mayor Aivars Aksenoks Area    - City 307. ... School of painting, sculpturing and architecture - the Moscow school of painting, sculpturing and the architecture, the largest alongside with St. ... Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский государственный университет имени Ðœ.Ð’.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and arguably the oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893) which inspired 20th century Expressionists Portrait of Eduard Kosmack by Egon Schiele Rehe im Walde by Franz Marc Elbe Bridge I by Rolf Nesch On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... Assorted ancient bronze castings found as part of a cache, probably intended for recycling. ... Pouring a concrete floor for a commercial building, (slab-on-grade) Installing rebar in a floor slab during a concrete pour In construction, concrete is a composite building material made from the combination of aggregate and a cement binder. ...

Although Nikita Khrushchev famously chastised Neizvestny's works as degenerate art at the Moscow Manege exhibition of 1962 ("why do you disfigure the faces of Soviet people?"), the sculptor was later approached by Khruschev's relatives and executed a tomb for the Soviet leader at the Novodevichy Cemetery. His other well-known works of the Soviet period are Prometheus in Artek (1966) and the Lotus Flower at the Aswan Dam in Egypt (1971). In 1976 he defected from the USSR to Switzerland. (Russian: , Nikita Sergeevič Hruščëv; surname commonly romanized as Khrushchev, IPA: ; April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler and Adolf Ziegler visit the Nazi exhibition of degenerate art. ... Moscow Manege is a large square building with an historical background. ... Grave of Anton Chekhov Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the citys third most popular tourist site. ... Prometheus, by Gustave Moreau In Greek mythology, Prometheus, or Satan (Ancient Greek, Προμηθεύς, forethought) is the Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from the gods in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. ... Young Pioneer camp Artek in 1960s Arteks logo since 1990s Artek (Russian: Арте́к) was the All-Union and international Young Pioneer camp in the Soviet Union. ... Aswan is a city on the first cataract of the Nile in Egypt. ...

During the 1980s he guest lectured at the University of Oregon, Eugene, as well as at UC Berkeley. He also worked with Magna Gallery in San Francisco, and had a number of shows which were well attended in the mid 1980s. This gallery also asked him to create his "Man through the Wall" series to celebrate the end of Communism at the end of the 1980s. He also ended his relationship with Magna gallery at this time.

In 1996, Neizvestny designed a huge monument to the victims of Soviet repressions in Magadan. The same year, he was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation. Although he still lives in New York City and works at Columbia University, Neizvestny frequently visits Moscow and celebrated his 80th birthday there. He has a museum dedicated to his sculptures in Uttersberg, Sweden. Some of his crucifixion statues were acquired by John Paul II for the Vatican Museums. Magadan vicinity from the US Defense Mapping Agency (1978) Orthographic projection centred over Magadan Magadan, Russia city flag. ... Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Official papal image of John Paul II. His Holiness Pope John Paul II, né Karol Józef Wojtyła (born May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Poland), is the current Pope — the Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Entrance to the museum Staircase of the Vatican Museum The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

References

• Voronov N.V. Ernst Neizvestny. Moscow, 1991.

External links

• Studio of Ernst Neizvestny web site
• Kolodzei Art Foundation and the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art