Sergey Merkurov | |
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![]() A 1981 Soviet stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Sergey Merkurov's birth | |
Born | |
Died | 8 June 1952 | (aged 70)
Nationality | Russian, Soviet |
Style | Socialist realism |
Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov (Russian: Серге́й Дми́триевич Мерку́ров, 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1881 – 8 June 1952) was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Armenian descent.[1] He was a People's Artist of the USSR in visual arts, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts,[2] and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949. Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks.[3][4] He was the sculptor of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin in the USSR.[5]
He was the cousin of George Gurdjieff, a mystic and spiritual teacher.[6]
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