The artist Oscar Rabin died

In Florence, at the year 91, the artist Oscar Rabin died. He died on Wednesday, November 7th. This was reported by Radio Liberty in the artist's family. ( The Perovodnomnoye was mistakenly reported that the artist died in Paris. According to the specified data, he died in Italy - RS ). Rabin was one of the most influential artists of the post -war Soviet avant -garde.

Oscar Rabin. "Railless", 1975

He was born in 1928 in Moscow, studied at the Riga Academy of Arts, the studio of Yevgeny Kropyvnitsky and the Moscow Art Institute, from where he was expelled for formalism.

In the late 50s, he became one of the founders of the Lianozovo school-the influential unification of artists and non-conformist poets, formed around his teacher, poet and artist Yevgeny Kropyvnitsky.

Rabin was the organizer of the "bulldozer exhibition" - an unauthorized exhibition of paintings in Moscow in 1974, destroyed by the police with the help of bulldozers and irrigation machines.

In 1978, Rabin was forced to emigrate and has since lived in Paris. His paintings are in the meetings of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and the Pompidu Center.

Rabin was married to the artist Valentina Kropyvnitskaya, she died in 2008. The artist will be buried in the Pere Lashez cemetery in Paris