Alexander Grigorievich Maksymenko (1916 - 2011)
Alexander Grigorievich Maksymenko
Alexander Grigorievich Maksymenko (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Максименко) was a Soviet and Ukrainian painter of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, watercolorist, and art historian.
Alexander Maksymenko worked in the genres of still life, landscape, portrait, as well as in genre painting. His genre works cover themes of collective farm life, including "Masters of the Land" and "Innovators of Collective Farm Fields". For the latter work he received the Stalin Prize. The master actively participated in exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. His works are in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II, as well as in other art museums and private collections.
| Date and place of birt: | 5 november 1916, Ольховатка, Russian Empire |
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| Date and place of death: | 15 march 2011, Kiev, Ukraine |
| Nationality: | Ukraine, USSR |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Genre painter, Graphic artist, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist |
| Art school / group: | Союз художников Украинской ССР |
| Genre: | Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Contemporary art, Socialist realism |
