Volodymyr Kolesnyk

Volodymyr Kolesnyk was a renowned Ukrainian painter, a master of easel painting, who successfully combined the classical school of realism with the vivid coloring of impressionism.

The artist was born in 1920 in the village of Zhovte (Dnipropetrovsk region). From 1945 to 1951, he studied at the Kyiv Art Institute, where his teachers included Viktor Puzyrkov, Oleksii Shovkunenko, Tetiana Yablonska, and Kostiantyn Yeleva.

From 1951 to 1952, he taught at the Kyiv School of Applied Arts. The artwork of Volodymyr Kolesnyk was featured in republican exhibitions from 1949. 

He lived in Kyiv, where he died in 1986.  Posthumous solo exhibitions of Volodymyr Kolesnyk’s paintings were held in Kyiv in 1989 and 2013.

He worked in the field of easel painting, creating landscapes and thematic compositions. His early works were devoted to the industrial and everyday themes of socialist realism (In the Sheet Rolling Workshop, At the Children's Clinic). He later revealed himself as a subtle lyricist, creating picturesque views of Ukrainian nature and Kyiv (By the Dnipro, March Sun).

Among Volodymyr Kolesnyk's original paintings are At the Field Camp (1961), Vova Reading (1967), Grandfather and Grandson (1969), Spring (1970–1971), Birch Lace (1979), Toward Evening (1981), and many others.

UFDA digitised Banks of a Quiet River (1982) by the artist from the collection of the Regional Communal Museum of Local History in Borshchiv.