Kost Lavro
Kost Lavro (born in 1961, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian artist and illustrator. He is a close collaborator with the poet and publisher Ivan Malkovych. Laureate of Shevchenko National Prize in 2010.
Kost Lavro
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- 1961 · Novoukrainka.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Ukraine
- Occupation
- artist · illustrator
- Education
- Ukrainian Academy of Printing · Shevchenko State Art School
- Honours
- Merited Painter of Ukraine
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Kost Lavro (born in 1961, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian artist and illustrator. He is a close collaborator with the poet and publisher Ivan Malkovych. Laureate of Shevchenko National Prize in 2010.
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Kost Lavro (born 1961) is an artist and illustrator, of Soviet and Ukrainian nationality. The artist was born in Novoukrainka. Kost Lavro was educated at Shevchenko State Art School and Ukrainian Academy of Printing. Honours include Merited Painter of Ukraine.
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Biography
Biography
Kost Lavro was Born on March 11, 1961 near Dikanka (now Poltava region, Ukraine).
Education
Education
Lavro studied art early at the Shevchenko State Art School (his classmates there included Alina Panova, Roman Turovsky and Yuri Makoveychuk) and the Kyiv Polygraphic Institute. He graduated from the Faculty of Book Design of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing. He is a Member of the National Union of Artists or Ukraine.
Career
Career
In his works, he combined the fundamental tenets of the Ukrainian avant-garde of the 1920s with the typical features of Ukrainian folk painting. Kost Lavro's works were repeatedly included in the catalogues of children's book exhibitions in Bologna, Bratislava, and the like. In addition to “A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-gi”, he collaborates with the Ukrainian publishing house “Smart Child” and the popular French children's magazine “Pomme d’Api”. Illustrations for the book “The Night Before Christmas” received several high book awards, including the title “Best Children’s Book of 2007” at the All-Ukrainian competition “Book of the Year” and a 1st degree diploma for winning the “Art of the Book” competition (Russia, 2007).
Works
Works
• Illustration — Ukrainian stamps "Ukrainian tales", 2001 • Illustration — Ukrainian stamps "Ukrainian tales", 2002 • Illustration — Ukrainian stamps "Ukrainian tales", 2004 • Illustration — Ukrainian stamps, 2011 • Illustration — Ukrainian stamps, 2012
Stamps of Ukraine, 2001
Укрпошта · http: home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/ukraine/2001/index.html
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Kost Lavro born at Novoukrainka.
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- Kost' Lavro: Illustrator–Ukraine, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2021
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Kost' Lavro: Illustrator–Ukraine, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2021
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