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

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.