Mykhailo Hordiiovych Derehus (

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: Дерегус Михайло Гордійович; born December 5, 1904, Veseloye,

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Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

— July 31, 1997,

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

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) was a Soviet Ukrainian graphic artist, painter and educator. In 1969 he was awarded the

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...

. His work is held in the collection of the

Kuindzhi Art Museum Kuindzhi Art Museum () was an art museum located in the city of Mariupol in Ukraine. It is dedicated to the display of the life and works of the artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, who was born in the city. The museum opened on 30 October 2010, however its ...

, Mariupol, Ukraine.

Life and work

Derehus' expressionist lithographs illustrated the 1936 edition of

Ivan Kotliarevsky Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky ( uk, Іван Петрович Котляревський) ( in Poltava – in Poltava, Russian Empire, now Ukraine) was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukra ...

's '' Eneïda''. He also illustrated the works of

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka ( uk, Леся Українка ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, uk, Лариса Петрівна Косач; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active ...

Marko Vovchok Marko Vovchok ( uk, Марко́ Вовчо́к, birth name: Mariia Vilinskа, surname by the first marriage: Markovych, surname by the second marriage: Lobach-Zhuchenko, russian: Мария Александровна Вилинская; 22 Dece ...

, and

Natan Rybak Natan Rybak (Рибак, Натан; 3 January 1913 – 11 September 1978) was a Ukrainian poet and socialist-realist writer of Jewish origin. Rybak published 3 collections of poetry in the 1930s. He published around 20 collections of short storie ...

. He was Chairman of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine from 1955 to 1962.

Awards

*1969:

Legacy

A bronze plaque at 9

Volodymyrska Street Volodymyrska Street ( uk, вулиця Володимирська) is a street in the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, which is named after the prince of Kievan Rus' Vladimir the Great and which is one of the oldest streets in the city, and ...

, Kyiv, commemorates where Derehus lived from 1973 to 1997. On 25 October 2004, the

National Bank of Ukraine National Bank of Ukraine ( uk, Національний банк України) or NBU ( uk, НБУ) is the central bank of Ukraine – a government body responsible for unified state policy in the field of country's monetary circulation, includ ...

put into circulation a commemorative coin with a face value of ₴2, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Deregus. In 2019, a street in Kyiv was named after him.

Collections

Derehus' work is held in the following permanent collections: *

, Mariupol, Ukraine *

National Museum Taras Shevchenko National Museum Taras Shevchenko () is a museum in Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, dedicated to the life and work of the painter and national poet, Taras Shevchenko. History The museum and its collection originated as part of an initiative by ...

, Kyiv, Ukraine

References

General references

*''Mykhailo Hordiiovych Derehus'' (1958) by

Ivan Vrona Ivan Vrona (russian: link=no, Ива́н Ива́нович Вро́на, uk, Іва́н Іва́нович Вро́на), (, Otrocz, — 5 January 1970, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian art critic and artist. He was Rector of the Kyiv Art Institute (192 ...

*''Derehus. Oforty'' = Derehus. Etchings (1971) by I. M. Verba *''Художники України : 100 видатних імен / Khudoz︠h︡nyky Ukraïny : 100 vydatnykh imen'' = Artists of Ukraine: 100 prominent names. Kyiv: ArtEk, 2007. By Igor Sharov and Anatoly Tolstoukhov. . 1904 births 1997 deaths People from Kharkiv Oblast 20th-century Ukrainian painters 20th-century Ukrainian male artists {{Ukraine-artist-stub