"Birches in the snow"

"Birches in the snow"

Author: A. Plamenitsky

oil on canvas 70 x 44 cm

Anatoly Alexandrovich Plamenitsky was born in 1920 in the village of Yagodnoye, now in the Grachevsky district, Orenburg region of Russia. From 1939 to 1940 he studied at the Baku Art College. In 1953 he graduated from the Kiev State Art Institute. He studied with M. Sharonov, N. Ivanov, K. Yeleva and I. Shtilman, and from the fourth year in the workshop of A. Shovkunenko, where T. Yablonskaya and V. Bubbles were assistants. Since 1954, he has participated in city, national, All–Union and foreign art exhibitions. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He worked in the field of easel painting, turned to the genre of historical paintings, and was a master of landscape painting. Since 1963 he has been a senior lecturer, and since 1977 he has been a professor at the Painting Department of the Kiev State Art Institute. Since 1964, he has been an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1976, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. The artist died on September 10, 1982. The artist's works are represented in museum and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.