The Russian painter Dmitri Vrubel is dying. The “Bild” newspaper reported this on Monday, citing the family. Wrubel had already contracted Covid-19 a few weeks ago, and his wife Viktoria Timofeeva reported a week ago that he had been ventilated with an artificial lung and had dialysis treatment.
According to “Bild”, the Covid 19 disease led to heart disease and finally to a stroke. Wrubel is in a coma. The doctors had given up all hope, the devices that keep him alive should be switched off soon – Wrubel is an organ donor, so the time is still open. Russian media reported Vrubel’s death on Monday morning.
The most famous picture in Berlin’s East Side Gallery is associated with the painter. In the spring of 1990, Wrubel sprayed the graffito “My God, help me to survive this deadly love” on the Berlin Wall.
It shows the fraternal kiss between the then Soviet head of state Leonid Brezhnev and the GDR head of state Erich Honecker in 1979. At the time, Wrubel painted a photo of the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the GDR.
