Mykhaylo Khmelko

Mykhailo Ivanovych Khmelko (Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Хмелько, 23 October 1919 - 15 January 1996) was a Ukrainian painter, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, and double Stalin prize winner.

Biography

Mykhailo Khmelko was born in Kiev. In 1943-1946, he studied at the Kiev State Art Institute under Karp Trokhimenko. In 1948-1973, he was a faculty of the same institute.

Khmelko is known for his Socialist Realism paintings: Unification of the Ukrainian Lands (1939-1949), Drink A Toast for the Great Russian People (1947), Triumph of the Victorious Motherland (1949), Forever with Moscow. Forever with Russian people (1951).[1] He is also the author of the diorama Medical Help in the Bohdan Khmelnytsky army of the Kiev Museum of Medicine.[2]

In the 1970s, he began to abuse alcohol, which led to his dismissal from the art institute. In 1986, he began working on his autobiography, but it remained a draft. With the beginning of perestroika, the demand for the artist's paintings of party and military figures disappeared, the artist was hardly experiencing the collapse of the USSR, and family problems began. This, as well as alcohol abuse, led to Khmelko's death on January 15, 1996, after a long illness.

Mikhail Khmelko. Forever with Moscow. Forever with the Russian People (Treaty of Pereyaslav). 1951

References
  1. Хмелько Михайло Іванович // Учені вузів Української РСР: Довідник. — К.: Видавництво Київського університету, 1968. — С. 450.
  2. "Художники України. Випуск 5: Живопис, графіка, скульптура, монументально-декоративне мистецтво". Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2010.

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