Oil painting Autumn Valentin Stepanovich Tereshenko

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*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Autumn"
* ARTISTS: Valentin Stepanovich Tereshenko
* SIZE: 60х80 cm/' 23,62х31,49 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artists: Artist Valentin Stepanovich Tereshenko (1941-2021). Born in Siberia in the city of Irkutsk on June 30, 1941. The father of the future artist Stepan Titovich Tereshchenko was from a family of former well-to-do bourgeois exiled from Mogilev in 1937. The head of the family, grandfather Tit Gerasimovich, and his eldest son Semyon were shot in Siberia in 1938. The artist's mother, Anna Alexandrovna Volchatova, from a family of exiled Old Believers - grandfather Alexander Kirikovich Volchatov was a church head in his village Oyok, near Irkutsk, Lake Baikal. Grandmother - from the family of the exiled Decembrist Komarov-Pechorsky, determined to settle permanently in the village of Oyok after serving fifteen years of hard labor in the city of Nerchinsk.After Hitler's attack on Russia on June 22, 1941, the father of the future artist was drafted to the front, where he died. The artist's mother with the newly born Valentin, left for the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, to the mother of his father Evdokia.
Valentin Tereshchenko spent his childhood in this city. Kansk in those days was the center of the so-called KRASLAG (Krasnoyarsk camps). An amazing bunch of human destinies, outstanding personalities - repressed intelligentsia, bandits, Japanese prisoners, Germans, people of different nationalities, religions, political convictions.In this difficult atmosphere, the character and views of the future artist were formed. In Kansk, from the first days of school, Valentin met the family of exiled German artists, Andre Diehl, and his son, artist Bruno Diehl, became the first teacher and mentor of Valentin Tereshchenko for many years. Bruno Diehl prepared Valentin for admission to the only professional art institution in Siberia at that time - the Irkutsk Art School, where Valentin, having successfully passed the exam, was enrolled at the age of 14, in the class of the exiled Moscow artist, student of Igor Grabar, Irma Gekker.After the third year, he goes to study at the workshop of the future academician Anatoly Alekseev, where he successfully graduated from college in 1960. In 1960-1961 Valentin worked as a drawing and drawing teacher at a school in the city of Kansk. In 1961 he entered the Leningrad Art Institute. I. Repin in the workshop of Alexander Sokolov.In 1962 he was called up for active military service. Serves as a sailor in the Baltic Fleet. In 1965 he was demobilized and remained to work in Kaliningrad (Keningsberg) as the director of a children's art school. In 1969 he continued his studies at the art institute, but already in his historical homeland in Belarus at the Minsk Theater and Art Institute. In 1974 he finished it brilliantly - the workshop of Professor Pyotr Sharangovich. In the same year, he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and became involved in an active creative life. Works as an art editor at a publishing house, chief artist of the art-production plant of the RSFSR in the city of Tomsk.
In 1982 he moved to Moscow and was engaged only in painting. In the period 1970-2003, the artist participated in more than 100 art exhibitions of various ranks, both in Russia and abroad. About 20 personal exhibitions in various countries of the world. In 1971 he was awarded the Diploma of the USSR Academy of Arts. In 1979, on the basis of his personal exhibition, he created the only rural Art Gallery in Siberia at that time in the village of Gubino, Tomsk Region.

In 1991, the Nov publishing house published a small album of Valentin Tereshchenko's works. In 2001, the publishing house "Spiral-Vell", the city of Milan, Italy published a large album about the work of Valentin Tereshchenko "Man without a place".