SCULPTOR

Lev Kerbel

1917 - 2003

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Lev Yefimovich Kerbel (Russian: Лев Ефимович Кербель; November 7 [O.S. October 25] 1917 – 14 August 2003) was a Soviet and Russian sculptor of socialist realist works. Kerbel's creations included statues of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Yuri Gagarin, which were sent by Soviet Government as gifts to socialist and the Third World countries across the world. Kerbel was born to a Jewish family in the village of Semyonovka in Chernigov Governorate, Russian Republic (currently Semenivka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine), on the day that the Winter Palace in Petrograd was stormed by the Bolsheviks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Kerbel has received more than 37,122 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Lev Kerbel is the 193rd most popular sculptor (down from 175th in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 572nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Lev Kerbel ranks 193 out of 258. Before him are Stepan Erzia, Jacob Epstein, Marisol Escobar, Mona Hatoum, Gerhard Marcks, and Dennis Oppenheim. After him are Anthony Caro, Anne Seymour Damer, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Louise Nevelson, Matthias Braun, and Rudolph Schadow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Lev Kerbel ranks 213. Before him are Domenico Bartolucci, Abdel Rahman Badawi, Betty Holberton, Robert Byrd, Jacqueline Auriol, and Mikhail Devyataev. After him are Isuzu Yamada, Ernesto Alonso, Miroslav Brozović, Laurindo Almeida, Joshua Nkomo, and Marion Donovan. Among people deceased in 2003, Lev Kerbel ranks 207. Before him are Veikko Hakulinen, Strom Thurmond, Piet Dankert, Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Fedora Barbieri, and Viguen. After him are Art Carney, Anita Borg, Yuriy Voynov, Jesse Carver, Tomáš Pospíchal, and Dorothee Sölle.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lev Kerbel ranks 655 out of 1,365. Before him are Gheorghe Asachi (1788), Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807), Valeriy Pustovoitenko (1947), Ross Martin (1920), Valentin Mankin (1938), and Panas Myrny (1849). After him are Valerian Pidmohylny (1901), David Cherkassky (1931), Shura Cherkassky (1909), Mykhailo Boychuk (1882), Jerzy Różycki (1909), and Georgy Sedov (1877).

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Among SCULPTORS In Ukraine

Among sculptors born in Ukraine, Lev Kerbel ranks 5. Before him are Alexander Archipenko (1887), Yevgeny Vuchetich (1908), Chana Orloff (1888), and Ivan Martos (1754). After him are Louise Nevelson (1899).

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