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Artist Dmitry Vrubel passed away

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Artist Dmitry Vrubel passed away


16.08.2022

Picture: "Brothely Kiss" by D.Vrubel

Russia-German artist Dmitry Vrubel died in Berlin from coronavirus consequences, TASS reports. He was 62 years old.

Vrubel is known around the world for the “Brotherly Kiss” graffiti on Berlin Wall. The graffiti depicts the kissing communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.

Before moving to Berlin in 1990, Vrubel was a member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR and was a part of the Avant-Garde Club art group in his native Moscow. He was involved in the underground art scene and organised illegal exhibitions in his apartment during the last years of the Soviet Union.

Vruebel's works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Berlin National Gallery.

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