Tatyana Nilovna Yablonskaya

Tatyana Nilovna Yablonskaya (February 11 , 1917 - June 17, 2005) - Soviet, Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1982). Laureate of two Stalin Prizes of the second degree (1950, 1951), the State Prize of the USSR (1979) and the National Prize. T. Shevchenko (1998), Hero of Ukraine (2001).

Tatyana Yablonskaya was born on February 11, 1917 in Smolensk (Russian Empire). In 1928, the family moved to Odessa, in 1930 - to Kamenetz-Podolsky, where she graduated from the seven-year school, then in 1934 - to Lugansk.

In 1933 she entered the Kiev Art College. In 1935, after the technical school was closed, she became a student of the painting department of the Kiev Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture), where she studied until 1941. She graduated from the institute with a degree in painting (the workshop of Fyodor Krichevsky).

Throughout her creative life, she participated in numerous all-Ukrainian, all-Union and international exhibitions, among which the most significant were:

1956 - XXVIII International Art Exhibition in Venice (Biennale)

1958 - World Exhibition in Brussels.

Since her student years, she had more than 30 solo exhibitions in Moscow, London, Budapest, Kiev and other cities. The painting "Before the Start" (1947) was not awarded the Stalin Prize because of the then announced struggle against formalism.

From 1947 to 1973 she taught at the Kiev State Art Institute, her students are many famous artists of Ukraine. Professor (1967).

Since 1944 - a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. Since 1975 he has been a full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Since 1997 he has been a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts.

Member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (1951-1959).

After a stroke in 1999, she was confined to a wheelchair[3].

Tatyana Yablonskaya died on June 17, 2005 in Kiev. She was buried at Baikovo Cemetery.