Vax Bentsion (Boris) Iosifovich
Vax Bentsion (Boris) Iosifovich – was born on May 12, 1912 in Zhytomyr. He graduated from Kyiv Art College (1932); and Kharkiv Art Institute (1944-1948). Specialty teachers are S. Prokhorov, O. Kokel, A. Cherkassky, M. Deregus, and A. Kramarenko. Painter, graphic artist. He worked in the field of easel monumental painting, and graphics. He created several idealized images of his contemporaries. Leading topics are torsion poetry of a toiler. In the 1960s-1970s, he was influenced by the "severe" style, which turned his paintings into a kind of poster. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1950). Honored Artist of the USSR (1973). Member of World War II. Was awarded a medal. Since 1933 he lived in Stalino (Donetsk): as a club artist, and a painting teacher at the Palace of Pioneers. He was a lecturer in Kharkiv Art College (1948-1952). He worked at the Art Fund of Kharkiv (1951-1955). Participated in republican, Union, and foreign art exhibitions (1949). Personal exhibitions - in Kharkiv (1972), Kyiv (1975). Main works: painting - "Adopted" (1954), "Cranes. Front Spring" (1957), "Kharkiv Region" (1960), "On the Virgin Lands" (1961), "In the Battle of the Communist" (1962 - 1965); triptych "Bread" (1968), "Morning of Donbas" (1970), "Silence" (1971), "Gladiolus" (1978), "Thunderstorm passed" (1984), "In the liberated Donbas" (1985); Graphics - "Latvian Fishermen" (1954), "Old Donbas. The family of a miner" (1957); color linocuts - "Arrest" (1961), "My Thoughts, Thoughts", "Childhood of Taras" and others. He lived and worked in Kharkiv, and died on August 4, 1989.