The author of graffiti with a kiss between Brezhnev and Honecker died

Russian artist Dmitry Vrubel, author of the famous graffiti with a kiss between Soviet Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker, has died at the age of 63. it is reported by "Fontanka" with reference to the statement of the literary critic and journalist Gleb Morev.

As the wife of the artist Viktoria Timofeeva said, Vrubel was hospitalized at the end of June with COVID-19. Due to illness, the artist was fitted with a ventricular circulatory assist device and put into an artificial coma.

Dmitry Vrubel was born in 1960 in Moscow. He painted his first painting, The Judgment of Pilate, at the age of 15. In 1979, Vrubel entered the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Art and Graphics. He studied at different times with famous artists: in 1976 with Mikhail Epstein, in 1977 with Andrei Panchenko, from 1977 to 1980 with Vladimir Ovchinnikov.

Since 1990 he has lived in Moscow and Berlin. In the same year, he created the composition “Lord, help me survive among this mortal love” on the Berlin Wall, or, as the people called the creation, “Brotherly Kiss”. In 2009, the famous graffiti was washed away from the only surviving fragment of the Berlin Wall, and then recreated by Vrubel.