The author of the 'Brotherly Kiss', the most famous graffiti on the Berlin Wall, has died

In Berlin, at the age of 62, the artist Dmitry Vrubel, the author of the graffiti “Brotherly Kiss” of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and the head of the GDR Erich Honecker on the Berlin Wall and many other famous works, died. сообщает with the BBC.

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According to media sources, the cause of the artist's death was complications from the coronavirus.

Dmitry Vrubel was born in Moscow in 1960, in 1975 he created his first work of art, the painting “Pilate's Court”.

In 1978-1980, Vrubel studied at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Art and Graphics, but did not finish his studies. However, despite this, in 1983 he was accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR.

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In 1986, Vrubel organized an impromptu gallery in his apartment, and in 1987 he became a member of the Avant-Garde Club (KLAVA), which also included Dmitry Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, Nikita Alekseev and other artists.

In 1990, Vrubel moved to Berlin. In the same year, on a surviving fragment of the Berlin Wall, he painted the famous painting “Brotherly Kiss,” in which Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev kisses the leader of the GDR, Eric Honecker.

Graffiti has become one of the most famous street art in the world. In 2009, “Brotherly Kiss” was erased as part of the restoration of the wall for the 20th anniversary of its demolition, but Vrubel agreed to restore the painting.

In 2010, Vrubel acted as a defense attorney in the trial of the former director of the Sakharov Museum, Yuri Samodurov, and the ex-head of the department of new trends at the Tretyakov Gallery, Andrei Yerofeyev, who were accused of inciting religious hatred for organizing and holding the exhibition “Forbidden Art 2006.” . The trial was initiated by the Orthodox movement "People's Council".

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“We again find ourselves in a country where the state supports one position and aesthetics, and calls another criminal, and this is scary,” Vrubel commented on this trial then.
The artist was actively involved in charity work. In 2004, he donated a large sum to create a children's art school in Beslan, and in 2007 he sponsored the construction of an orphanage in Suzdal.

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