Viktor Poltavets
Viktor Vasylyovych Poltavets (1925–2003) was a Soviet and Ukrainian artist, Merited Art Worker of Ukraine (visual, 1974), National Artist of Ukraine (visual, 1984), member of the National Society of Artists of Ukraine (1952). Viktor Poltavets was born in Polohy (today Zaporizhia Oblast) on January 11, 1925. In 1950 he graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute, now known as the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
Also recorded as Viktor Vasilyevich Poltavets · Viktor Vasylyovych Poltavets
Viktor Poltavets
- Born
- 1925 · Polohy.
- Died
- 2003 · Kyiv.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Ukraine
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Kharkiv Institute of Arts
- Teachers
- Yefrem Svitlychnyi
- Honours
- Order of the Patriotic War and 2nd class · Order of the Badge of Honour · Ukrayna SSR Ali Soveti Rəyasət Heyətinin fəxri fərmanı · People's Painter of the USSR · Medal For Labour Valour · Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR
- Languages
- Ukrainian
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Poltavets primarily specialized in painting and drawing. Among his awards are orders the Badge of Honour (1982), the Patriotic War (2000) as well as some medals. Poltavets is buried at the Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv.
Viktor Poltavets studied at Kharkiv Institute of Arts. Training under Yefrem Svitlychnyi is recorded. Yevhen Andriiovych Spitsevych is recorded as having studied under Viktor Poltavets. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. Employment is recorded with Kharkiv State School of Art. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, Order of the Badge of Honour, Ukrayna SSR Ali Soveti Rəyasət Heyətinin fəxri fərmanı and People's Painter of the USSR.
• "Attack's repelled" (1950); • "Arsenalites" (1959); • illustrations to books of Nechuy-Levytsky "Mykola Dzherya" and "Kaidashev Family" (1960); • "Red Cossacks" (1963); • "Haidamaky" (1964); • "Moment of rest" (1965); • Triptych "Oleksandr Parkhomenko" (1967); • "Couriers" (1970); • "Partizan land" (1971); • "Collective farm affairs" (1975); • "End of war" (1978); • "Svyatoslav" (1982); • "Breakthrough" (1983); • "Bugler" (1984); • "Eaglet" (1988); • landscape series "Chernihiv Region" (1985—1990); • "Spring waters" (1990); • "Bohdan Khmelnytsky and his associates — Kryvonis and Bohun" (2000). Number of illustration to works of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Le, Dmitriy Furmanov.
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