The memory of Ernst is unknown

On the night of August 10, the Soviet sculptor Ernst unknown died in New York. His bold works with elements of the human body at least once in his life have probably seen every Russian.

The leadership of the USSR represented by the Secretary General of Nikita Khrushchev called the work of the unknown to "degenerative". But in the irony of fate, it was precisely the unknown person who subsequently created the tombstone for the grave of the Soviet leader.

In 1976, the sculptor left the country and first left for Switzerland, and then to the USA. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unknown repeatedly came to Russia, and in 1996 he completed the “Mask of Sorrow” - a fifteen -meter monument to the victims of repression, erected in Magadan.

Slon Magazine recalls the brightest work of the sculptor.