Sculptor Ernst Neizvestny dies in New York

Russian-American sculptor Ernst Neizvestny died in New York on Tuesday at the age of 91.

His friend Jeff Bliumis said the sculptor died at Stony Brook hospital where he been hospitalized with severe stomach pains.

He added sculptor’s relatives were undecided at the moment as to where he would be buried, TASS reports.

Ernst Neizvestny was born in Yekaterinburg on April 9, 1925. He was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, the 1941-1945 Soviet campaign against Nazi Germany, and holder of the Order of the Red Star.

In 1976, Neizvestny emigrated from the Soviet Union and lived and worked in the US since 1977. His pieces of art can be found in museums and cities across the globe. For example, the Lotus Blossom at the Aswan Dam in Egypt (1966), Prometheus in the young pioneer camp Artek on the Crimean Peninsula (1971) and the Mask of Sorrow in Magadan, Russia (1996).