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Gavriil Kharitonovich Vaschenko (June 20, 1928, village Chikalovichi, Bragin district, Gomel region - February 14, 2014, Minsk) - Belarusian Soviet painter, People's Artist of the BSSR (1988). Honored Art Worker of the BSSR (1977). Professor (1980). Laureate of the State Prize of Belarus (1984).
Biography
Born on June 20, 1928 in the Belarusian Polesie, the motives of nature which were reflected in the artist's work throughout his life.
Early life
In 1948 he graduated from the Kiev School of Applied Arts, teacher - T. Yablonskaya and was familiar with Vrubel. Friendship with N.A. Prakhov, as well as the applied direction of the school itself, had a great influence on the formation of Gabriel Vaschenko as an artist. He took a great interest in monumental art and, being in his third year of college, already painted in the building of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine. After graduation, he worked at the Dovzhenko Film Studio. On the advice of senior students, he left to enter the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts, which he graduated in 1955. By distribution, he left for Moldova, where he lived for 6 years. Received the title of Laureate of the Festival of Youth and Students of Moldova. In 1955-60 he taught at the Republican Art School of Chisinau, (Moldova). In 1957 he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR. He was the author of several monumental paintings in Chisinau and Moscow. At the all-Union exhibition in Moscow, he met the future People's Artist of Belarus Vladimir Stelmashonk, at whose invitation he came to Minsk in 1961 to head the Department of Monumental and Decorative Art at the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute. By this time, Gabriel Vaschenko already had a family - a wife and 2 sons.
Moving to Minsk
In 1961 he moved to Minsk and carried out the first enrollment for the specialty "Monumental and decorative art", was the founder of the department of monumental and decorative art at the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute. From 1961 to 1997 he taught at the Belarusian State
