Nikolai Ivanovich Volynets (1921 - 2003)

Nikolai Ivanovich Volynets

Nikolai Ivanovich Volynets (Russian: Николай Иванович Волынец) was a Soviet and Belarusian artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter who worked mainly in the genres of landscape and portrait, a follower of the Vitebsk school of painting.

Nikolai Volynets wrote landscapes from nature by the technique of large brushstroke. Models for his portraits became, as a rule, heroes of war and labor, political and creative figures and ordinary citizens, contemporaries of the artist. Some portraits he created using leaves of trees and feathers of birds. At the end of his life, the artist turned to religious themes, and participated in the painting of walls in temples.