Ivan Osipovich Akhremchik (, ; 16 December 1903,

Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administra ...

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- 9 March 1971,

) was a Belarusian painter specializing in portraits. In 1949, he received the title People's Artist of the BSSR.

Biography

Akhremchik graduated from the Moscow Institute of Arts and Technology in 1930. After graduation, he worked in the genre of easel and monumental painting. In the 1930s, he painted "The Arrival of the Red Army in Minsk" and "Osintorf". In the post-war period, he painted murals in the Young Spectators' Theatre and the Belarusian Association of the Cultural Union in Minsk, Belarus (together with I. A. Davidovich). Since 1921, Akhremchik had been taking part in exhibitions of various levels from regional to all-Union. The most famous works of Akhremchik's easel art is the painting "Defense of the Brest Fortress" and a portrait of the People's Artist of the USSR Gleb Glebov. In Akhremchik's honor, Belarusian institution “Gymnasium-College of Arts” was named after him in 1971. The institution offers two pathways: music and art. Most of Akhremchik's paintings are displayed in the gymnasium. The artist's major works are dedicated to the historical-revolutionary and military-patriotic themes: *"The Signing of the Manifesto on the Creation of the BSSR" (1929); *"II Congress of the RSDLP" (1932); *"The Arrival of the Red Army in

in 1920" (1934-1935); *"Foundation of the Soviet rule in

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" (1939-1940); *"Defenders of the

Brest Fortress Brest Fortress (; ; ; ), formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus. In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the fi ...

" (1957-1958); *"Osintorf" (1931). The list of his works also includes landscapes "After the Rain" (1945), "July Day" (1960), and "Early Morning" (1963).

References

Bibliography

Ива́н О́сипович Ахре́мчик
(in Russian)
Newspaper Izvestiya
(in Russian) *Аладова Е. В. И. О. Ахремчик. — М., 1960. *Беларуская энцыклапедыя: У 18 т. Т. 2.:Аршыца — Беларусцы. / Рэдкал.: Г. П. Пашкоў і інш. — Мн.: БелЭН, 1996. — 480 с. — С. 160. *Ваданосава Ф. Майстар партрэта Іван Ахрэмчык / Ф. Ваданосава // Роднае слова. — 1993. — № 12. — с. 32. *Тараканава М. Партрэтны жывапіс Івана Ахрэмчыка: Карціна «Якуб Колас і Янка Купала» / М. Тараканава // Роднае слова. — 2003. — № 12. — с. 68-69.
Memorial plaque of Akhremchik in MinskFrancisk Skaryna by Akhremchik
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