Farewell to Dmitri Vrubel, the artist of the famous kiss between Brezhnev and Honecker

Russian artist Dmitri Vrubel, famous for creating the famous mural of the kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker, has died at the age of sixty-two. Announcing his death was Milena Orlova, editor of Art Newspaper Russia. The artist had been in a Berlin hospital for some time due to post-Covid complications.

Born in Moscow in 1960, he had moved to the German capital at the age of 30. Shortly after his arrival in the city, he had painted on the Berlin Wall the mural, titled My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love, which depicts the two Soviet leaders: Brezhnev, general secretary of the USSR, and Honecker, president of the GDR. Vrubel had been inspired by an actual kiss between the two in 1979 during celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the founding of East Germany.

German authorities had removed the weathered mural in 2009, and Vrubel made it one more time along the East Side Galler, a portion of the wall still standing that had become an open-air gallery.

Farewell to Dmitri Vrubel, the artist of the famous kiss between Brezhnev and Honecker

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