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Maurice Berger, cultural historian curator & art critic

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Maurice Berger, cultural historian curator & art critic

Maurice Berger ‑ an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‑ died due to presumed complications of a coronavirus disease on March 23, 2020. Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States. He curated a number of important exhibitions examining the relationship between race and American art, including the critically-acclaimed For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights co-organized in 2011 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for Art, Design &...

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Brian Crowe, diplomat

Sir Brian Crowe ‑ a British diplomat, who was Ambassador to Austria, 1989–1992 ‑ died on 23 March 2020 with COVID-19. He was born on 5 January 1938, the son of Eric Crowe, a diplomat, and Virginia Teusler. His grandfather was Sir Eyre Crowe. He was educated at Sherborne School and Magdalen College, Oxford.

24Mar

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Paul Karslake, artist

Paul Karslake ‑ a British artist, primarily a painter ‑ died on 23 March 2020 of sudden onset pneumonia, which was caused by COVID-19. Karslake was born in Basildon, Essex. He studied at SEEVIC College and Southend College of Art and Technology and started working with his father, Michael Karslake, an architectural model-maker working on such projects as Centre Point and the Thames Barrier. In the early 1970s Karslake was tutored by Sir Peter Scott; towards the end of that decade he met Salvador Dalí during a trip to Spain. Karslake then spent four years in California, working for the LA Art Studios, CBS Television and Disney, with whom he later collaborated on the EuroDisney project. Karslake had numerous solo exhibitions, and became famous for his d...

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Calogero Rizzuto, architect

Calogero Rizzuto –an Italian architect and historic preservationist – died from Covid-19 on 23 March 2020. Rizzuto graduated from University of Palermo with a degree in architecture in 1983 and worked as a resident architect in Rosolini until 1989. In the following years, he acquired great competence as a manager in the cultural and tourism sector through projects in Sicily. Since 2007, Rizzuto had been responsible for the cultural heritage of the Sicilian region on the Soprintendenzen in Ragusa and Syracuse. He also worked at the Museum of Kamarina. Since Summer 2019, he held the position of First Director of the Archaeological Parks of Syracuse (Parco Archeologico della Neapolis, Villa Romana del Tellaro, ancient Heloros) and devoted himself to...

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Nashom Wooden, artist

Nashom Wooden –an American performing artist – died due to Covid-19 on March 23, 2020. Wooden was a member of the electronic dance music band The Ones and performed as a drag queen under the stage name Mona Foot. Wooden was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and entered the New York nightlife scene as a Club Kid in the mid-1980s. By 1989, he worked in Manhattan running the men's clothing department at Patricia Field's boutique while developing the drag queen persona Mona Foot with his friend and former roommate Lady Bunny. Wooden credits RuPaul as an early mentor; RuPaul taught Wooden how to apply makeup, and both appeared in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo. As Mona Foot, Wooden hosted the weekly drag competition "Mona Foot's ...

22Mar

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Lorenzo Sanz, businessman

Lorenzo Sanz Mancebo –a Spanish businessman who was the president of Real Madrid between 1995 and 2000, and owner of Málaga CF – succumbed to Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. Born on 9 August 1943 in Madrid, Spain, Sanz played as a goalkeeper in his youth for several minor Madrilenian league teams, including Puerta Bonita. An astute businessman, he made his fortune in real estate and construction. Sanz was a director of Real Madrid from 1985 to 1995. He then became president of Real Madrid on 26 November 1995 after Ramón Mendoza was forced to resign due to the economic, social, and sporting problems of the club. Sanz tried to turn the club around by bringing in star players like Davor Šuker and Predrag Mijatović with his ...

22Mar

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William Stern, businessman

William George Stern ‑ a businessman most notable as the owner of the British Stern Group of companies – died of Covid-19 on 21 March 2020. When the British Stern Group of companies collapsed in 1973, Stern became Britain's biggest bankrupt with debts of £118 million. The uninsured losses sustained by thousands of investors led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act. He died during the Covid-19 pandemic due to complications brought on by Covid-19. He was born Vilmos György Stern or Ze’ev HaKohen Stern in Budapest, the youngest of three children of Chaim Stern, who owned a textile factory supplying goods to the Hungarian government. When Hungary was invaded by Nazi Germany in March 1944, Stern along with hi...

21Mar

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Tarcisio Stramare, theologist

Tarcisio Stramare ‑ an Italian priest, a biblical scholar, writer and teacher – died on 20 March 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. He was considered one of the greatest international scholars of Josephology. Stramare studied in Rome and Jerusalem nas became religious of the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Joseph, being ordained a priest in 1952. A learned scholar, already in the 1970s he was called to occupy the chair of Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Lateran University and, subsequently, at the Pontifical Urban University and at the Pontifical theological faculty "Marianum". He received some important assignments from the Holy See, both in the Pontifical Commission for the Nova Vulgata (since 1973), of which he was responsible for the editions of the t...

20Mar

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Luciano Federici, footballer

Luciano Federici –an Italian professional footballer – died from Covid-19 on 18 March 2020. He played in all three of Italy's top professional leagues, including for Carrarese, Cosenza and Pisa. On 18 March 2020, Federici died from COVID-19 in Italy.

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Henri Richelet, painter

Henri Richelet –a French painter ‑ died of COVID-19 on 18 March 2020 in Paris, aged 75. Born to primary school teachers in a small village close to Domrémy, the birthplace of Joan of Arc, Henri Richelet spent his childhood and adolescence in the neighbouring small town of Neufchâteau (Vosges). After his Baccalauréat, he first attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, then the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1968, he got the First Grand Prix of the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid in the etching category. He has been living in Paris since the seventies after having spent a few years in Quebec. He was married to the Chilean painter Ximena Armas. Besides his partic...