Died Aleksandr Maksimenko

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March 15 died Honored Artist of Ukraine Alexander Maksimenko.


Maksimenko, Alexander G. (1916 - 2011)
Ukrainian artist, a master of still life, landscapes, genre paintings, the author of numerous portraits.
Born in with. Lucky (now Vilhovatka) Kobylyatskogo district in Poltava.
In 1933, he enrolled in Dnepropetrovsk thin. College, studied at Cooper Yu (apprentice IV and V. Pryanishnikov Makovsky), Honoured Artist M. Panina (student Ilya Repin and Chistyakov). In 1938 he entered the Kiev Art Institute, the scenic department. During the Great Patriotic War was an artist I Ukrainian Front. Since the autumn of 1941. in 1943. was withdrawn on the orders of Stalin (and all graduate students) in Samarkand where he studied at the Department of the Moscow painter. Institute. In 1943. together with the Russian Academy of Arts moved in Zagorsk.
Since 1946. takes part in all-Union exhibitions. In 1947, with praise graduated, class of A. Shovkunenko. Diploma thesis "masters of the land" has become well known, was exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, for her Maksimenko received the State Prize of II degree. In 1949 Kharkiv Nakhabino composer wrote the music on the theme of the painting "The owners of the land."
 In 1972, Alexander Maksimenko awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist URSR. From 1947-1957gg. He is working on a theme of the paintings on the theme "The Soviet village": "Kolkhoznaya Suite," "Girlfriends" (1948), "Under the Autumn" (1948), "Spring" (1950), "Earth. Ploughing "(1950)," The collective farm field "(1956)," Innovators farm fields "(1951), etc. In 1956, traveling to Italy with a delegation of thin. and Critics, headed by O. Shmarinov. The artist works in the genre of thematic picture, portrait and landscape. The main work. "The water came," 1957. "First tractor" 1973. "Toward a New Life" 1978.
For many years he taught composition at the Kiev Art Institute and headed an organized them thin. studio in Poltava. Was a delegate to the Republican and All-Union Congress of artists, plenums, secretary of the room. Party of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Republican party, union and international exhibitions. Member of Artists since 1947. Honored Artist of USSR in 1972.
His works are in museums and private collections in Ukraine, CIS countries and abroad.
Creativity Maksimenko mentioned in the encyclopaedic dictionary, encyclopedia USSR and in many editions of the USSR and abroad.