Sergey Merkurov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sergey Merkurov

Soviet sculptor (1881-1952)

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1881

Place of Birth: Gyumri, Shirak Region, Armenia

Date of Death: 08-Jun-1952

Profession: painter, sculptor

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Sergey Merkurov

  • Sergey Dmitrievich Merkurov (Russian: ?????´? ???´??????? ?????´???, 7 November [O.S.
  • 26 October] 1881 – 8 June 1952) was a prominent Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent.
  • He was a People's Artist of the USSR, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949.
  • Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks.
  • He was the sculptor of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin in the USSR.He was the cousin of George Gurdjieff, a mystic and spiritual teacher.

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