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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. He was the sculptor of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin in the USSR. He was the cousin of George Gurdjieff, a mystic and spiritual teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergey Merkurov is the 176th most popular sculptor, the 52nd most popular biography from Armenia and the most popular Armenian Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Sergey Merkurov ranks 176 out of 258. Before him are Ligier Richier, Ernst Neizvestny, Johann Georg Pinsel, Tullio Lombardo, Balthasar Permoser, and Robert Jacobsen. After him are Lev Kerbel, Melchiorre Cafà, David Černý, Matthias Braun, Hermann Obrist, and Juan Martínez Montañés.

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Among people born in 1881, Sergey Merkurov ranks 147. Before him are Eugène Olivier, Dora Boothby, William R. Orthwein, Nasib Yusifbeyli, Gaston Gallimard, and Louis Bastien. After him are Aleksandr Bogomolets, Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Zhang Zongchang, Ken McArthur, Jérôme Carcopino, and Henri Le Fauconnier. Among people deceased in 1952, Sergey Merkurov ranks 108. Before him are Arturo Rawson, Alberto Savinio, Nikos Beloyannis, Solomon Lozovsky, Artur Kapp, and Jonas Staugaitis. After him are John Garfield, Roger Vitrac, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Yakov Frenkel, Edward S. Curtis, and Albert Bassermann.

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In Armenia

Among people born in Armenia, Sergey Merkurov ranks 52 out of 163. Before him are Vardan Areveltsi (1198), Hovik Abrahamyan (1959), Ariarathes II of Cappadocia (-350), Shavarsh Karapetyan (1953), Tatevik Sazandaryan (1916), and Ghazar Parpetsi (442). After him are Shavo Odadjian (1974), Nicholas Adontz (1871), Shushanik Kurghinian (1876), Hovhannes Shiraz (1914), Davit Bek (1669), and Regina Ghazaryan (1915).

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Among SCULPTORS In Armenia

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

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