Souvenirs

Oleksandr Khatskelovych Kerzhner was a Ukrainian Soviet painter and a member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine. Born on August 13 (26), 1912 in Tulchyn (now Vinnytsia region, Ukraine), during 1932-1941 and 1945-1946 he studied at the Kyiv Art Institute under Pavlo Volokydin, Serhii Hryhoriev, and Oleksii Shovkunenko. He worked in the field of easel painting, working in the style of socialist realism and creating still lifes, landscapes, portraits, and thematic paintings that reflected Soviet reality. He participated in republic and all-Union art exhibitions starting in 1947. A personal posthumous exhibition of Kerzhner was held in Kyiv in 1985. Among his works are "To the First Form" (1950), "At the Glass Factory" (1967), "Still Life with Gladiolus" (1970), "Souvenirs" (1974, 1979), "Still Life with a Samovar" (1979), "Flowers" (1980), and others. His paintings are kept in many museums of Ukraine and in private collections in Ukraine and abroad. He died in Kyiv on May 9, 1981.