Soviet Ukrainian painter. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Born June 26, 1928 in the village. Rakivtsi, Tulchinsky district, Vinnitsa region. Member of the Second World War. Order of Merit 3 degrees. Member of the Union since 1970. He graduated from the Odessa Art College in 1952. Teachers V. Tokarev, L. Muchnik. He worked in Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) in the society “Ukoopkhudozhnik” from 1952 – 1962 in the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR; in the art – production workshops from 1962 – 1991. Chairman of the department since 1987 – 1990. Participated in regional, republican and all-union art exhibitions since 1952. PERSONAL IN Ivano-Frankivsk (1984, 1998, 2003), Lviv (1985), Kolomyia (Ivano-Frank. For landscapes, portraits, still lifes Crib is inherent in lyricism, decorativeness. paints. Developed his own system of spatial solutions; used flickering bright colors. Some of the works are kept in Ivano-Farkovsky Local History and Art Museums, Lugansk, Chervonograd (Lvov region), Khmelnitsky, Lviv. museums of modern art. Works: “The girl listens to music” (1952), “Children in the field” (1957), “T. Shevchenko “(1973),” Spring over the Dniester “(1974),” Victory Spring of 1945 “(1975),” Pears, Blossom “(1977),” Still Life with the Samovar “,” Lviv. Reunification Square “(both 1982),” Transcarpathian Motive “,” Lesya “(both 1983),” Pecherskaya Lavra “(1986), triptych” Our Daily Bread “(1991), Nazar, Tanya – 1993), “Still Life with Hutsul Ceramics” (1995), “The Artist P. Prokopov” (1998), “Pevtsov, A. Shkurgan”, “Andrei” (both – 1999), “For the Samovar” (2003), ” Olga Andreevna “(2004),” Father’s Pasika “(2006),” The Rose of the sixties “(2007),” Olya “(2010); cycles – “Carpathians” (1981), “Gorodenkivshchina” (1997), “House with a fence”, “Under the mountain. Sedniv “(both – 2001).
Photo: P. Haruk. From the cycle “Carpathians” 1981