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- ID:
- 142
- Inventory number:
- Ж-142 КН-8906
- Type:
- Paintings
- Material:
- canvas
- Techniques:
- oil
- Dimensions:
- 70x60 cm
- Author:
- Mykola Bortnykov
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Mykola Fedorovych Bortnykov was a Ukrainian artist, portraitist, landscape painter. Born on January 16 (29), 1916 in the city of Virny (now Almaty, Kazakhstan), in 1936 he graduated from the Tashkent Art College. After some time, he entered the Moscow Art Institute, but could not graduate and went to the front. After the end of World War II, he returned to Moscow and graduated from the Art Institute (1950; teacher: H. Riazhskyi). He was appointed director of the M. Samokysh Crimean Art School. From 1951, he participated in regional, republic and foreign exhibitions. He worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. In 1976, Bortnykov received the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine. Among his works are "Yavdokha", "Waterflood", "Birches", "Winter Day", and "In the Village". He lived and worked in Simferopol and died on March 20, 1997. The master's paintings are kept in museums in Ukraine and Russia, and in private collections abroad in Germany, Japan, Greece, and France.
- Date of creation:
- 1973
- Preservation:
- Complete safety
- Location:
- unknown
- Provenance:
- Transferred by the Directorate of Exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR. Act No. 1715 dated 12.25.1974.
- Date of record to the inventory book:
- 18.08.1981