Mykhaylo Khmelko

Mykhailo Ivanovych Khmelko (Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Хмелько, 1919-1975) was a Ukrainian painter, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, and double Stalin prize winner.

Mykhailo Khmelko was born in Kiev. 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 to the Great Russian Nation (1947), Triumph of the Victorious Motherland (1949), Forever with Moscow. Forever with Russian people (1951). He is also the author of the diorama Medical Help in the Bohdan Khmelnytsky army of the Kiev Museum of Medicine.

Mikhail Khmelko. Forever with Moscow. Forever with the Russian People (Treaty of Pereyaslav). 1951

Sources

• Mikhail Ivanovich Khmelko Kievskiye Vedomosti N73, 6 April 2007 (Russian)

• M. Khmelko in Russian history in the mirror of visual arts (Russian)

• Passion to Find and Give Zerkalo Nedeli N39 (260) 2 October 1999 (Russian)

External links

• Kmelko works on The Bridgeman Art Library

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Name	Khmelko, Mykhaylo Ivanovich
Alternative names	Хмелько, Михайлist-Realism painter
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Date of birth	1919
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Date of death	1975
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