Lights of Azovstal

Heorhii Mykolaiovych Verbytskyi is a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. Born on October 27, 1920 in the village of Shyryayevo, Odesa region, he graduated from the Kyiv Engineering and Construction Institute (1938-1939), where he studied under O. Verbytskyi. He worked in the field of watercolor painting. Verbytskyi was a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1970) and Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1989). He participated in exhibitions: republic (1957), all-Union (1965), and foreign. His main works include the watercolors "Kamenets-Podilskyi" (1960), "Shevchenko Village" (1960), "Shevchenko Museum" (1960), "Kyiv University" (1962), "Cossack Graves" (1963), and "In the Artist's Workshop" (1981), the series "Shevchenko Places" (1960-1964), "Flowers" (1994), "Industrial Zhdaniv" (1967), "Landscapes" (2003), the triptych "Ukrainian Motifs" (1980), "Kyiv. Lavra" (1986), "Wedding" (1990), "Blue Parrot" (1999), and others. His works are kept in museums of Ukraine. Verbytskyi lived and worked in Kyiv and died in 2011.