Today Lelia Nikolayevich Kuzminkovu - 85 years!

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Today Lelia Nikolayevich Kuzminkovu - 85 years!
Let us wish a wonderful artist's health, health and health again.
I believe and will do everything possible, that the artist has taken a worthy place in the history of Ukrainian art. He deserves it. Whenever possible, I will acquaint you with his creativity.
A few days ago Lel N. lay in intensive care, the second time in three months. Thank God nothing happened.

To begin with a short biographical note, a few pictures while studying at Kharkov, and even in old age. Also, several of his works from different periods of creativity.

Kuzminki Lel Nikolayevich (born in 1925, Mariupol)
Painter, graphic artist, muralist, sculptor and local historian.

He graduated from the Kharkiv Art College (1947-1951) in NS Slipchenko, L. Fitileva, diploma thesis "Stalin speaks in the underground." His first teacher said GK Bendrika. Works in the genre of portrait pictures. Author of numerous monumental works in Mariupol (1963), Slavic, Artemovsk, Berdyansk, s.Urzufe (Donetsk reg.) Statues of the poet G. bone setters (1992, pp. Yanisol M., Donetsk region)., Metropolitan Ignatius (1998, Mariupol), "Soldier-Liberator" (Mariupol) and others (all in collaboration with VK Konstantinov). Works in the mosaic technique, encaustic, stained glass, decorative, and sculpture). The total area of the mosaics and murals up to 2000 sq.m. He was fond of drawing - a handwritten copy of linocuts Kobzar in translations of Greek authors, are in museums: TG Shevchenko (Ukraine), Russian National Library (Moscow), Mariupol KM. Author of local history essays and articles on art. Councilman Mariupol Greek society (one of the first initiators of its creation). Foreign party (1992, Paris), the union and republican exhibitions. Personnel: 1959, Mariupol (jointly with LN Gadi). Awarded the Diploma of the Presidium of the Board of the USSR Union (1968). His works are held in the Donetsk XM, Mariupol KM, KG Krasny Luch (Lugansk Reg.), In private collections in Ukraine, Greece, England, Belgium, Russia and other countries.