Неизвестный, Эрнст Иосифович

Sculptor, graphic artist

Born Sverdlovsk, 9 April 1925

Died Stony Brook (NY), 9 August 2016

Neizvestny joined the Red Army in 1942 and was heavily wounded but managed to survive. In 1946 he started studying at the Latvian Art Academy in Riga and from 1947 to 1954 at the Moscow Surikov Art Institute. In 1962, at the famous Manege Exhibition Khrushchev derided Neizvenstny's works as degenerate art. In 1976 he left Russia for Zurich. From 1977 Neizvenstny lived and worked in New York. He taught at Columbia and Harvard Universities.

1966

1969-70

1975-76

1981-82

1984

1990

1992