Manaylo Fedor Fedorovich

An outstanding Soviet Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. People’s Artist of Ukraine. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. An outstanding artist of Transcarpathia. Fedor Fedorovich Manaylo was born on October 19, 1910 in the village of. Ivanovtsy near Mukachevo in Transcarpathia in the family of a village teacher. From 1928 to 1934 he studied at the Higher Art and Industrial School in Prague at Brunner, Goughbauer, Kratochvil. In 1933, his works were shown at the exhibition of Transcarpathian artists in Prague. Since 1936 he worked as a teacher in the village of Ivanovtsy, and from 1937 to 1945 he taught decorative art in the Uzhgorod craft school, from 1947 he worked as the main artist of the Transcarpathian regional house of folk art. In 1946 F.F. Manaylo was admitted to the Union of Artists of Ukraine, in 1948 – became chairman of his Transcarpathian organization. Member of regional, republican, all-Union and foreign art exhibitions. He worked in the field of easel and monumental painting, the author of landscapes, still lifes and subject compositions. Turning to the book schedule, illustrated the story of Ivan Franko “Zakhar Berkut”, the works of Mark Cheremshina and Olga Kobylianska, a number of collections of folk folklore. In the second half of the 1950s, Fedor Manaylo’s creative union with Anton Kashshai was born. Artists together illustrate the collection “Folk ballads of Transcarpathia”. Fedor Fedorovich took a direct part in the creation of the Uzhgorod School of Applied Arts, was one of his first teachers. In 1972, Manaylo F.F. awarded the title of Honored Artist of the USSR. Since 1976 – People’s Artist of Ukraine. Personal exhibitions of the artist were held in 1961, 1979, 1980, 1985, 2000 in Uzhgorod. He died on January 15, 1978. February 9, 1981 in Uzhgorod, the Memorial House-Museum of F.F. Manaylo. The artist’s works are presented in numerous museum and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.

Фёдор Федорович Манайло. Табун гуцульских лошадей