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eng Automatic Translation

Yaugen Kulik

1937 – 2002

Artist, book designer, bibliophile. Art editor of "Birch" and "Rainbow" magazines. Author of reconstructions of Belarusian castles, portraits of figures of Belarus. One of the founders of the "Chase" community. The author of the standard coat of arms "The Pursuit" as the state coat of arms of the Republic of Belarus in 1991-1995.

His workshop, which was located in Minsk opposite the KGB building, became a national center of the capital in the 1960s and was named "On the Roof". He was not a member of the Komsomol and the Communist Party, he spoke exclusively Belarusian.

Together with his like-minded Lyavon Baraznaya, Kulik created a whole national-romantic trend in Belarusian post-war art.

Lived and worked in Minsk.

Selected events

Selected Artwork Series

Selected artworks

Associated institutions

Associated Documents

Selected dates:

October 31, 1937

He was born in Minsk (BSSR, today the Republic of Belarus).

1957

After the war, he graduated from the Minsk Art School.

1963

He graduated from the Belarusian Theater and Art Institute.

From 1963

Took part in art exhibitions.

Since 1965

Member of the Belarusian Union of Artists. Chairman of the BSM commission on folk art.

In 1991

Together with Vladimir Krukovskiy, he became one of the authors of the standard coat of arms "The Pursuit", which was used as the state coat of arms of Belarus until 1995.

January 12, 2002

He died in Minsk. The last years of Yevhen Kulik's life were extremely difficult. Over the years, he began to develop a rare joint disease. The artist allegedly twisted, the bones became fragile. Once, having slipped in the winter, Kulik suffered twelve fractures. Buried at Calvary cemetery in Minsk.

November 2005

A monument to Kulik was opened at the cemetery.

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His graphic paintings "Monuments of the Doylidztva of Hrodna region", "Castles of Belarus", "Temples of Belarus", "Paths of Joseph Drazdovich", "Uprising of 1863 in Belarus" are very famous. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was engaged in book graphics, he designed dozens of books, and the best of them were: "A word about Igor's stick", "From the bustle of bars" by Aleksandrovich, "The green fly and the snub-faced mosquito" by M. Bogdanovich, " Sun glomerulus" V. Zuyonka. The book "The Song of the Bison" by M. Husouski became a real masterpiece of the artist.

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Vladimir Basaliga:

"Yugen Kulik [was, as it were] a messenger who in ancient times was sent from the princely army to bring good news to the Motherland. Kulik brought the news of the Renaissance to Belarusians."

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Edward Ludovich:

"This short, hunched-over man with a short surname was one of the great handful of people who remembered the renaissance, won back independence. From the great handful of founding nationalists."

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Siarhei Kharevsky:

"When talking about Kulik, it is difficult to avoid pathos....This figure is like a mountain, it will grow from year to year, the further we move away from it. The man gathered around himself a brilliant galaxy of Belarusian intelligentsia - artists, writers, historians, created the state coat of arms of an independent of Belarus. Kulik was the ideological center of the intelligentsia community.... Here he did work similar to that performed in Poland by Jerzy Gedroyc, the editor of the Parisian "Kultura".... Kulik will forever remain a symbol of incorruptibility and indomitability, indomitable spirit."