INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Dmitry Vrubel, the Russian painter who shot to fame with a work on the Berlin Wall depicting Soviet and East German communist leaders
hospitalized with suspected coronavirus in late June, his wife, artist Viktoria Timofeyeva, has said
He was placed in a medically induced coma in mid-July due to heart failure, Timofeyeva wrote on Facebook.Born in Moscow in 1960, Vrubel
originally moved to Berlin in 1990, where he almost immediately became famous for his wall painting.Vrubel had studied in art school,
although he didn't graduate
But in 1983 he was accepted as a member of the Artists Union of the U.S.S.R
Vrubel was an early and constant art dissident
abbreviation KLAVA), which included some of the best non-official cultural figures of the times, including artist and writer Dmitry Prigov
and poet Lev Rubinstein.In Moscow in 2020 Vrubel was a witness for defense of two curators charged with inciting religious enmity with a
position and esthetic and calls everything else illegal
