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eng Automatic Translation

Nikolai Seleschuk

1947 – 1996

Artist, graphic artist, illustrator.

He worked in book and easel graphics, easel painting, painting and ex-libris.

The works are characterized by the complexity of the plot and space-time solution, documentary accuracy combined with allegory, metaphor, symbol. He is best known for his illustrations for children's books.

Today, the artist's works are kept in museums and private collections around the world.

Selected events

Selected artworks

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Selected dates:

August 4, 1947

Born in the village of Velikorita, Malorita district, Brest region (BSSR, now the Republic of Belarus) in a family of workers.

1957

The family moved to a suburb of Brest, the village of Pugachevo. In Brest, he studied at the art studio of Petr Danelia.

1964

He worked as an advertising artist in the Brest garrison House of Officers.

1965–1968

Studied at Minsk art school (now Minsk State Art College named after Glebov) at the department of painting.

1970–1976

He studied at the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute (now the Belarusian State Academy of Arts), at the Department of Graphics.

1976–1977

He worked as an art editor at the publishing house "Vysshaya Shkola".

1966

Since that time he actively participated in art exhibitions.

1977

He became a member of the Union of Artists of the BSSR.

1987

The first solo exhibition took place in Grodno.

1995

He became an academician of painting of the public association "Belarusian Academy of Fine Arts".

September 25, 1996

Tragically died, he was overwhelmed by a wave on the beach of the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Naples and Rome.

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  • The artist about his practice:

  • "I was looking for the wisdom that I suspected existed, the harmony of a noble and highly moral spirituality, a luxurious fairyland of great attraction, something like a witch's multiplication table, from which doors and windows open to all heaven, I saw in this a hidden extraordinary power. This is a wonderful revelation , the wisdom of life we need..."