SCULPTOR

Ernst Neizvestny

1925 - 2016

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Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny (Russian: Эрнст Ио́сифович Неизве́стный; 9 April 1925 – 9 August 2016) was a Russian sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher. He emigrated to the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Neizvestny has received more than 134,790 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ernst Neizvestny is the 177th most popular sculptor (down from 143rd in 2019), the 1,434th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,172nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Ernst Neizvestny ranks 177 out of 258Before him are Charles Despiau, Antony Gormley, Walter De Maria, Tino di Camaino, Jan Brokoff, and Sergey Merkurov. After him are Alina Szapocznikow, Maurizio Cattelan, Eva Hesse, Mark Antokolsky, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Hermann Obrist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Ernst Neizvestny ranks 263Before him are Laura Ashley, Jeanne Crain, Marlen Khutsiev, Arne Åhman, Marco Cé, and Brent Scowcroft. After him are Jonathan Winters, Fritz Laband, Justus Dahinden, Georg Buschner, Jan Wolkers, and Joan Mitchell. Among people deceased in 2016, Ernst Neizvestny ranks 257Before him are Alan Thicke, Leon Russell, Jiří Tichý, Marc Riboud, Billy Paul, and Marco Pannella. After him are Abdul Sattar Edhi, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Yvette Chauviré, Faina Melnik, Anita Brookner, and Pedro de Felipe.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ernst Neizvestny ranks 1,434 out of 3,761Before him are Abraham of Smolensk (1172), Sergey Botkin (1832), Gennadi Strekalov (1940), Andrej Hoteev (1946), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), and Vadym Meller (1884). After him are Vasily Trediakovsky (1703), Lena Katina (1984), Vera Komissarzhevskaya (1864), Johannes Virolainen (1914), Marina Semyonova (1908), and Yuri Rytkheu (1930).

Among SCULPTORS In Russia

Among sculptors born in Russia, Ernst Neizvestny ranks 4Before him are Naum Gabo (1890), Konstantin Somov (1869), and Katarzyna Kobro (1898). After him are Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805), Anna Golubkina (1864), Mikhail Anikushin (1917), and Walter W. Winans (1852).