Aurel David

Aurel David was born in Chișinău on June 18, 1935, and worked as a painter, graphic artist, sculptor and muralist, with monumental projects in mosaic, metal and open-air sculpture. He died on July 19, 1984, and was awarded the State Prize posthumously in 1990. The National Art Museum of Moldova held a retrospective for his 90th anniversary in 2025.

His Plowman of the Universe (1972), on the Gagarin Youth Center in Chișinău, has been called the city's mosaic most urgently in need of rescue. In Tiraspol he worked on Tree of Life with Viktor Radovanov and Mikhail Rudenko, and on a 1968 mosaic for a residential and commercial building with Gennadiy Zykov.