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Sergey Merkurov

1881 - 1952

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Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov (Russian: Серге́й Дми́триевич Мерку́ров, 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1881 – 8 June 1952) was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent. He was a People's Artist of the USSR in visual arts, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949. Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergey Merkurov has received more than 43,368 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sergey Merkurov is the 166th most popular sculptor (down from 165th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Armenia and the most popular Armenian Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Sergey Merkurov ranks 166 out of 189Before him are Robert Jacobsen, Giuseppe Prinzi, Tino di Camaino, Ron Mueck, Mona Hatoum, and Emmanuel Frémiet. After him are Alina Szapocznikow, Charles Despiau, Ivan Martos, Anthony Caro, Maurizio Cattelan, and Eva Hesse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Sergey Merkurov ranks 126Before him are Aleksandr Bogomolets, Kristian Prestrud, Daniel Jones, Vilhelm Buhl, Curt Haase, and María Blanchard. After him are Karl Staaf, Henry Maitland Wilson, Max Gerson, Lewis Fry Richardson, Refik Saydam, and Gaston Gallimard. Among people deceased in 1952, Sergey Merkurov ranks 106Before him are Arturo Rawson, Alberto Hurtado, John Garfield, Petros Persakis, Gino Fano, and Fletcher Henderson. After him are Vladimir Albitsky, Solomon Lozovsky, Yitzhak Sadeh, Artur Kapp, Itzik Feffer, and Jack Conway.

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In Armenia

Among people born in Armenia, Sergey Merkurov ranks 50 out of 147Before him are Levon Aronian (1982), Vardan Areveltsi (1198), Hovhannes Shiraz (1914), Paruyr Sevak (1924), Shushanik Kurghinian (1876), and Minas Avetisyan (1928). After him are Tigran Sargsyan (1962), Hayko (1977), Regina Ghazaryan (1915), Vazgen Manukyan (1946), Ofelya Hambardzumyan (1925), and Shavo Odadjian (1974).

Among SCULPTORS In Armenia

Among sculptors born in Armenia, Sergey Merkurov ranks 1After him are Ara Shiraz (1941).