Odesa artist Gennady Garmyder dies

Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, book illustrator, bookplate master, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Hennadii Harmyder, who lived and worked in Odesa, died on March 16, 2023.

This was reported by the Odesa regional organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

Hennadii Harmyder was born on February 21, 1945 in Voronezh (Russia) in the family of a military railway worker. The artist's father came from the village of Sorokotiaha, Zhashkiv district, Cherkasy region, Ukraine. At the age of one and a half months, Hennadii and his parents moved to the urban village of Bessarabka (Bessarabianska station) on the very border of Ukraine and Moldova, where his father was assigned.

Since 1953, he lived and worked in Odesa.

In 1961-1966, he studied at the Odesa Art School, and in 1966-1974 - at the painting faculty of the Kyiv Art Institute in the theater painting workshop.

In 1974-1977, he taught at the Odesa Art School named after B. Hrekov.

Since 1977, he has been a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (NUAU).

For a long time he worked at the publishing houses "Mayak" and "Dnipro".

He was elected chairman of the graphics section, a member of the board of the presidium of the Odesa organization of the Union of Artists, a member of the Republican Commission of Graphics, and a member of the exhibition.

The artist worked in oil painting, etching and other graphic techniques. His favorite genre is cityscape, he is also the author of still lifes, wonderful portraits of both his contemporaries and romantic fictional characters. He has designed and illustrated about 200 books and created more than 20 bookplates.

His personal exhibitions were held in Odesa, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Moscow (Russia), Oulu (Finland), Genoa and Lecce (Italy), and Grinnell College (USA).

His works are kept in the art museums of Odesa, Kyiv, Berdiansk, Zhytomyr, Donetsk, Dnipro, Krasnohrad, Luhansk, Chernihiv, Kherson, Kryvyi Rih, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Oulu (Finland), Baltimore (USA), Gyor (Hungary), the National Library and the Library of the Sorbonne (France), the Library of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland), as well as private collections in Ukraine, France, the USA, Liechtenstein, etc.

He participated in the UNESCO-Tchrnobyl-aide à l'enfance charity event in Paris in 1994.

On January 17, Vadym Shulyuk, head of the Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Odesa Oblast, dies in Odesa.

Also, Mykhailo Drobotov, an actor at the Odesa Regional Academic Drama Theater and director of the Odesa Theater on Chaichna, died on January 7, 2023.

In Odesa last December, a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine , Oleksandr Filippov , known for his volunteer work, died.

In October 2022, Valeriy Urenov, Director of the Architectural and Art Institute of the Odesa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Honored Architect of Ukraine, died.

And in September of the same year, one of the co-authors of the current coat of arms of Odesa, scenic artist and public figure Hryhorii Faier, died.

The head of the city trade union "Educator of Odesa" Valentyna Korobko died on August 28, 2022.

On August 19, it became known that Lyudmyla Tikhonchuk, a multiple winner of Ukrainian bodybuilding championships and cups, died .

Also this month ,Alim Ennan , the head of the Physical and Chemical Institute for Environmental and Human Protection of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (FIZOSIL), passed away . He died in Odesa on August 3 from a serious illness.

In June, Oleksandr Chumakov, a priest and founder of a children's shelter, died in Odesa.

Кирило Бойко