Oil painting Before the rain Trohimenko Karp Demyanovich

№Verns 562


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Before the rain"
* ARTISTS: Trohimenko Karp Demyanovich
* SIZE: 25x36 cm/'9.84x14.17 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, cardboard
* 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: Outstanding Ukrainian artist and teacher. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
Karp Demyanovich Trokhimenko was born on October 25, 1885 in the village of Suschany in the Kiev region in the family of a rural clerk.
He received his first drawing lessons in a craft painting workshop in Kiev. Later he studied at the drawing school of N.I. Murashko.
From 1902 to 1905 he studied at the Kiev Art School under I. Seleznev.
From 1906 to 1907 - at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under N. A. Kasatkin.
From 1910 to 1916 Trohimenko K.D. studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where his teacher was N. S. Samokish, a prominent battle painter and teacher.
In 1915, together with other students of NS Samokish, together with his teacher, he traveled to the Western, and then to the Black Sea and Caucasian fronts to perform sketches and sketches, which were published in the magazines "Lukomorye" and "Sun of Russia".
After graduating from the academy, Trokhimenko went to the Caucasian Front as a private in the Life Guards. While in the army, he created compositions in which he recreated military operations and the life of Russian soldiers.
Since 1918 he worked in Kiev in the Commission for the Protection of Antiquities and Art.
In 1918-1919 he taught drawing at the higher railway school, in 1920-1923 - at a school in Suschany, in 1923-1925 he was the head of a labor school in Kagarlyk, in 1925-1926 he taught at a factory apprenticeship school at a sugar factory in Rzhishchev.
From 1926 to 1931, K.D. Trokhimenko - member and secretary of the AHCU (Association of Artists of Red Ukraine).
In 1926-1933 he taught at the Kiev Industrial Vocational School, later at the Kiev Art College.
In 1933-1974 he was a teacher at the Kiev Art Institute, since 1938 - head of the department of composition and head of the workshop of battle and historical painting, since 1939 - professor.
Master of genre, historical and landscape painting.
In 1944 Trokhimenko was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
Since 1918, the works of Karp Demyanovich began to be exhibited at art exhibitions, since 1926 - at republican ones, since 1927 - at all-Union ones, since 1928 - at international ones.
In 1968, a personal exhibition of the artist took place in Kiev.
In 1969 Karp Demyanovich was awarded the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR. Taras Shevchenko for the creation of paintings and illustrations on the Shevchenko theme and for the cycle of paintings "My Motherland".
He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, other orders and medals.
The artist died on October 1, 1979 in Kiev.
The works of K.D. Trokhimenko are in art museums, galleries and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.