Mykhaylo Khmelko
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Mykhailo Ivanovych Khmelko (, 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
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. In 1943-1946, he studied at the Kyiv 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). He is also the author of the
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army'' of the Kyiv Museum of Medicine. 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.


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Mikhail Ivanovich Khmelko
''Kievskiye Vedomosti'' N73, 6 April 2007
M. Khmelko
in ''Russian history in the mirror of visual arts''
''Passion to Find and Give''
Zerkalo Nedeli ''Dzerkalo Tyzhnia'' (, ), usually referred to in English as the ''Mirror of the week'', is a Ukrainian online newspaper; it was one of Ukraine's most influential analytical weekly-publisher newspapers, founded in 1994.Kmelko works on The Bridgeman Art Library
Artists from Kyiv Soviet painters Recipients of the Stalin Prize Ukrainian male painters 1919 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters {{Ukraine-painter-stub