Plamenitsky Anatoly

Soviet Ukrainian painter and teacher. He worked in the field of easel painting, turned to the genre of the historical painting, the master of the landscape.

Born in 1920 in the village Yagodnoe, now Grachevsky district, Orenburg region of Russia. From 1939-1940 he studied at the Baku Art College.

In 1953 he graduated from the Kiev State Art Institute. He studied under Mikhail Sharonov, M. Ivanov, Konstantin Yeleva and Ilya Shtilman, and from the fourth year in the workshop of Aleksey Shovkunenko, where the assistants were Tatyana Yablonskaya and Victor Puzyrkov. Since 1954 – was participant of city, republican, all-Union and foreign art exhibitions.

Since 1963 – was senior lecturer, and since 1977 – professor of the painting department of the Kiev State Art Institute.

Since 1964 – was Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1976 he was awarded the title of People’s Artist of the USSR.

He died in 1982 in Kiev.

The artist’s works are kept in the Art Museums and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.