Mykhailo Ivanovych Khmelko ( uk, Михайло Іванович Хмелько, 23 October 1919 - 15 January 1996) was a

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painter,

People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Estab ...

, and double Stalin prize winner. Mykhailo Khmelko was born in

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. In 1943-1946 he studied at the Kiev State Art Institute under Karp Trokhimenko. In 1948 - 1973 he was a faculty of the same institute. Khmelko is known for his Socialist Realism paintings: ''Unification of the Ukrainian Lands'' (1939-1949), ''Drink A Toast for the Great Russian People'' (1947), ''Triumph of the Victorious Motherland'' (1949), ''Forever with Moscow. Forever with Russian people'' (1951). He is also the author of the

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''Medical Help in the

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...

army'' of the Kiev Museum of Medicine.

Sources

Mikhail Ivanovich Khmelko
''Kievskiye Vedomosti'' N73, 6 April 2007
M. Khmelko
in ''Russian history in the mirror of visual arts''
''Passion to Find and Give''
Zerkalo Nedeli N39 (260) 2 October 1999

External links

Kmelko works on The Bridgeman Art Library
Artists from Kyiv Soviet painters Stalin Prize winners Ukrainian painters Ukrainian male painters 1919 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters {{Ukraine-painter-stub