Beginning of Spring

Oleksii Fedorovych Fishchenko was a Ukrainian artist, painter, graphic artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1969). People's Artist of Ukraine (2000). Born on December 29, 1920 in the city of Uman (now Cherkasy region, Ukraine). Participant of World War II, awarded combat awards. In 1953 he graduated from the Odesa Art School (teacher: P. Konovskyi), in 1959 - the Kyiv Art Institute (O. Pashchenko's easel graphics workshop). Participated in regional (starting in 1952), republic (starting in 1957), foreign (starting in 1959) art exhibitions. Participated in plein airs in Ukraine and abroad. He worked in various types of graphics - colored linocut, pencil drawings, watercolor, pastel, illustrated books, created paintings. Among his works are "Kaniv" (landscape series, 1957 to 1959), "Carpathians" (landscape series, 1961 to 1970), "Portrait of T. Shevchenko" (1982), "Sculptor Vasyl Borodai" (1994), "Self-portrait" (1997), "Sound of the Meadows" (linoleum, 1967), "Spring Day" (linoleum, 1970), and others. He died on February 15, 2010 in Kyiv. The artist's works are kept in museum, gallery and private collections in Ukraine and the world.