He Who Tears Up the Dam with the Mermaid

Nadiia Yosypivna Lopukhova was a Ukrainian graphic artist. Born on March 25, 1928 in the village of Berezivka (now the district center of Brusylov, Zhytomyr region), she graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute (1954), where her teachers were V. Kasiian, I. Pleshchynskyi, and K. Zaruba. She worked in the field of easel and book graphics and participated in republic (since 1959), all-Union (since 1960), and foreign (since 1957) exhibitions. She was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1960). Lopukhova's main works include illustrations for the fairy tale "Kyslytsia" by O. Ivanenko (1962), the series of lithographs "Women's Fate in the Works of T. G. Shevchenko" (1964), "The Sorrow of War", "1941", "Return" (1965), a cycle of etchings based on Lesya Ukrainka's drama extravaganza "Forest Song" (1967), and illustrations for the Ukrainian folk tale "Oi" (1968). Lopukhova lived and worked in Kyiv. She died in 2014.