Oil painting Green landscape Daniil Georgievich Narbut

№Vern 929


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Green landscape"
* ARTISTS: Daniil (Danilo) Georgievich Narbut
* SIZE: 59x80 cm/'23.22x31.49 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 artist: Born January 9 (22), 1916 in Petrograd in the family of the famous artist G. I. Narbut.

From the age of 14 he worked in the decorative workshop KUATOB named after T.G. Shevchenko.

In 1933-1935 he studied at the All-Union courses for theater artists at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Disciple of F.G.Krichevsky and A.V. Khvostenko-Khvostov.

In 1936 he was illegally repressed. After 2 years of imprisonment in the camps on the White Sea Canal, he was released and worked in the theaters of Yeisk and Zlatoust.

Since 1939 he took part in the Finnish war as a volunteer. Member of the Great Patriotic War. Was captured. During the occupation, he worked as the chief artist of the Kiev circus, an artist-consultant for the Kiev Theater Museum, and later as an artist in the Zhitomir, Chernivtsi and Cherkasy theaters. Together with the wife of the ideologist of Ukrainian nationalism DI Dontsov Maria participated in the production of three plays in Kovel. After the German occupation authorities accused the performances of the Kovel Theater of anti-German sentiments, he headed a hundred UPA, fought against the Nazis and the Polish Home Army.

Throughout his adult life, he considered himself a convinced Ukrainian nationalist. After 1990 - member of UNA-UNSO.

After the end of the war, he was the chief artist of the Ivano-Frankivsk theater (since 1961). Since 1965 he lived and worked in Cherkassy. First, he worked as an artist at the Cherkasy Academic Music and Drama Theater named after I. Taras Shevchenko, and then retired and painted a lot.

He died on March 2, 1998 in Cherkassy.