Mykhaylo Khmelko
Mykhailo Ivanovych Khmelko (Template:Lang-uk, 23 October 1919 - 15 January 1996) was a Ukrainian painter, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, and double Stalin prize winner.
Mykhailo Khmelko was born in Kiev. In 1943-1946, he studied at the Kiev 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 diorama Medical Help in the Bohdan Khmelnytsky army of the Kiev Museum of Medicine.
Sources
- Mikhail Ivanovich Khmelko Kievskiye Vedomosti N73, 6 April 2007 (in Russian)
- M. Khmelko in Russian history in the mirror of visual arts (in Russian)
- Passion to Find and Give[permanent dead link] Zerkalo Nedeli N39 (260) 2 October 1999 (in Russian)
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