Dmitri Vrubel

Russian painter (born 1960)

Dmitri Vladimirovich Vrubel (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Врубель; 14 July 1960 – 13 August 2022) was a Russian painter. He was best known for his painting My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, which showed communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing.[1] This painting was graffiti on the Berlin Wall. He was born in Moscow.

Mein Gott, hilf mir diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben on the Berlin Wall.
Vrubel during the restoration

Vrubel died on 14 August 2022, at the age of 62 from problems caused by COVID-19 at the age of 62.[2]

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