Ernst Unknown biography briefly

The video is all unknown - Ernst Ernst Unknown - the Soviet, Russian and American sculptor, the author of monumental sculptures established around the world. The main work in the life of the unknown is the “Tree of Life”, installed in the lobby of the Bagration pedestrian bridge in the capital. The sculptor Ernst is unknown, whose name today is known on all continents, lived a difficult life.

He saw a war, persecution by the Soviet authorities, forced emigration outside the native country. Unknown is the author of monumental masterpieces that can be found in different countries of the world: from Russia and Ukraine to the United States, Sweden, the Vatican and a number of African countries. In the early years, the sculptor was born on April 9 in the city of Sverdlovsk.

His father, Joseph Unknown, devoted his life to medicine, and his mother, Bella Dijur, was a poetess. Ernst hid many facts of his biography for a long time. For example, the fact that his grandfather was a representative of the merchant estate, and his father completely performed on the side of the White Guards. As Ernst Iosifovich himself recalled, the generations of the beginning of the age were forced to live in lies, it reached the complete rewriting of the genealogy.

It turned out that the surname of the young man’s family is not at all unknown, but unknown - the father was changed by the last two letters to avoid persecution by the Bolsheviks. In school years, the future sculptor took part in various art competitions. At the end of X, a talented guy entered the art school of Leningrad, which during the war was evacuated to Samarkand.

From here, despite health problems, the young man volunteered for the front. Ernst, unknown in his youth, in one of the battles, Ernst was seriously injured - he was even considered dead. Together with the bodies of his colleagues, he was placed in the basement for subsequent burial. Having spent some time among the corpses, the young man woke up and made himself felt.

Even when everything turned out, the headquarters still made a mistake and presented the hero to the Order of the Patriotic War posthumously. The wound greatly crushed the health of a novice sculptor - he could not create for several months. At the end of the war, an unknown person got a job at the Sverdlovsk Military School as a teacher of drawing. In M Ernst he became a student of the Riga Academy of Arts, and the next year submitted documents to the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov and the Moscow Art Institute named after Surikov.

Even then, the sculptures of the young sculptor were exhibited at student exhibitions and in some city galleries. Being a third -year student, the unknown presented the work “Yakov Sverdlov introduces Lenin and Stalin”, as well as a high relief for the Sverdlovsk museum entitled “Yakov Sverdlov calls the Ural workers to an armed uprising”. The student’s thesis was the composition “Builder of the Kremlin Fedor Horse”, later purchased by the Russian Museum.

The creative path already in the early period of the creative biography, the young man faced brutal censorship. Many of the experimental and not approved by officials had to be hidden from prying eyes. Ernst unknown at the work of the unknown criticized the press, he was called for interrogations to the relevant authorities and even subjected to beating on the street.

Fortunately, among colleagues there were many decent people who were able to defend the good name of the talented sculptor. In the year, Ernst Iosifovich was received by the Moscow Union of Artists. By the beginning of X, the sculptor completed the work on the cycle “Robots and Polorobots” and “War this”, sculptures “Effiery” and “Atomic Explosion”. In parallel, the author was engaged in painting and creating graphic images.

The World VI festival of youth and students, held in Moscow, brought the creator three medals at once - bronze, silver and gold.

In M in the capital, an exhibition was held, dedicated to the anniversary of the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists. Along with venerable representatives of socialist realism, novice avant -gardens presented their creations, among whom there was an unknown Ernst. One day, the exhibition was visited by the Secretary General of Nikita Khrushchev, whose reaction to the exhibits was extremely negative.

Historical video frames have been preserved, where the first person of the country scolds sculptures and gives them the most unflattering epithets. It also got an unknown, whose work the head of state called "degenerative art." Ernst Iosifovich desperately defended both his statues and sculptures of young colleagues. Nikita Sergeyevich remained indifferent to the arguments of the Creator, he could not convince him.

Moreover, after the exhibition, the end of the thaw began, which representatives of many creative professions hoped so much. The unknown person was expelled from the Union of Artists, and during Khrushchev, he was cut off the path to any state orders. However, when the Secretary General died, to make a tombstone for his grave was entrusted to the disgraced sculptor.

The unknown announced the idea with which the loved ones agreed: it was a composition of dark and bright marble, personifying the ambiguity of the figure of the figure.With Brezhnev, they began to treat the Creator more loyal. In X Ernst he received a state order to build the complex “Monument of Friendship of Children of the World” in the territory of the All -Union Children's Health Resort “Artek”.

At the base of the meter relief, stones brought by young vacationers from all over the world were laid. The Lotus Flower Monument, created by the Soviet sculptor, became the largest sculpture in the world. Later, the unknown took part in the design of the walls of the library of the Moscow Institute of Electrical Engineering. The budget was allocated more than modest, and said that Ernst would not take up the project.

However, the masters did not stop the financial problems: he decided to work in the regime of rigid savings. Instead of entrusting the manufacture of a bas -relief to the plant, he personally realized his unique sketch. And again, the author was able to make a splash: his creation “The Formation of a Reasonable Man” took almost a thousand square meters and became the largest bas -relief made in a closed space.

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