Alherd Adamavich Malisheuski

Background

Alherd was born on the 22nd of November 1989, in Babruysk, Belarus into a family that belonged to the working class.

Education

In 1939, Alherd graduated fron secondary school in Babruysk. From 1940 to 1941, A. Malisheuski was a student of Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University. From 1946 to 1952 A. Malisheuski studied at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts. His graduation painting "The First Task" was exhibited in Kiev in 1953.

Career

From 15 July to 30 June 1944, Alherd was a courier for a partisan unit. After the liberation of Babruysk on 29 June 1944, he worked for a time as a designer in the Babruysk Regional Drama Theatre. Already in 1945 he left Belarus for Ukraine. In 1952, the first exhibition with the participation of A. Malisheuski took place in Kharkov, where the future he presented his work "The Group Portrait of KhTZ Stakhanovites". In 1953, he arrived in Minsk. A. Malisheuski worked in the Central Design Workshops of the belarusian department of the USSR Fund. Then he worked as a teacher at Minsk State A. Glebau Art College until 1981. Pupils of A. Malisheuski who later became professional artists: Uladzimir Adamchyk (Adam Hlobus), Anatol Baranouski, Rygor Ivanou, Rygor Tabolich and others.

In 1976, he visited Bulgaria for creative business trip of the USSR Artists. A. Malisheuski was an artist of a wide creative range. His works are about the soul searching, the search for colour and form, composition and space. He worked in various genres, such as a landscape: "The Biarezina", 1961; "March. The Last Snow", 1961; "To Spring", 1962. One of the important motifs in the landscapes was the image of the field, depicted it in diffrent seasons, which he painted almost throughout his creative career.

In the 1960s and early 1970s Alherd painted: "The Portrait of the Head of Crop Growers V.Prystupchyk", 1960; The Portrait of the Neurosurgeon S. F. Sekach", 1962, "A Woman from Polatsk", 1968, etc. A. Malisheuski`s interest for the work of the Italian artist Renato Guttuso is felt in the works mentioned. He revealed in his portraits a multifaceted, rich in internal contrasts, image of the epoch and a contemporary full of dignity and strength.

In Alherd's later works, A. Malisheuski did not penetrate into the spiritual state of his models as much as showed their relationship with the outside world, defined the social belonging: "The Portrait of Maryna Meliachenka", 1975; "The Portrait of Halina Artsimovich", 1977, etc. A. Malisheuski also continued his creative search in figurative paintings. People in his works are ultimately collective images, types of artist`s contemporaries emanating powerful vital force: "Spring", 1962; "A Post-War Year", 1963-1967; "The Oath", 1970, etc. In 1988, he became a participant of the exhibition of the famous creative association "Niamiha`17" in the Palace of Arts (Minsk).

Achievements

• The paintings are kept in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts of the Republic of Belarus, the Mahileu Regional P. V. Maslenikau Art Museum and the Belarusian Union of Artists.

Works

• landscape

  • Gurzuf

    1959

  • A Day in March

    1962

  • The Biarezina

    1961

  • March. The Last Snow

    1961

  • To Spring

    1962

• painting

  • Spring

    1962

  • A Post-War Year (1963-1967)

  • Victory (Soldiers are Sons of the Motherland)

    1969

  • The Oath

    1970

  • Spring in Chyzhouka. Builders

    1977

  • Milkmaids.Noon

    1960

  • We Will Return

    1965

  • The Mother of Partisans

    1968

• portrait

  • The Group Portrait of KhTZ Stakhanovites

  • The Portrait of the Head of Crop Growers V. Prystupchyk

    1960

  • The Portrait of the Neurosurgeon S. F. Sekach

    1962

  • A Woman from Polatsk

    1968

  • The Portrait of the Artist A. M. Kashkurevich

    1968

  • The Portrait of a Student

    1972

  • A Young Artist

    1973

  • The Portrait of Maryna Meliachenka

    1975

  • The Portrait of Halina Artsimovich

    1977

  • The Woman from Polatsk. Nina Knysh

    1981

  • Nurses. Peace. Victory

    1984

• still life

  • The Still Life with a Coffee Pot

    1964

  • Lilac Blooms

    1967

  • A Still Life

    1967

  • Russian Trays

    1972

  • The Still Life with Masks

    1989

Views

Quotations: The fundamental origin of art is likely to be the mode of thinking which enables the artist to build up, to create a world where all elements exist and interact within a system. The system which is in perfect harmony with the artist`s personality ad his intellect. The more intellectual and exclusive art becomes, the larger it grows to the size of a messiah and transforms into an object of worship belonging to the whole civilization...Art preserves the national identity, it possesses an amazing insight...

Membership

He was a member of Belarus Artists` Union (1956).

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• The famous Belarusian art critic Barys Krepak: "Malisheuski was an active, communicative and eloquent person, who always dressed like a real dandy, and just like a dandy, he leisurely went to the studio in the morning in an expensive coat and costly glasses".

Interests

• Artists

  Renato Guttuso, Paul Cezanne

Connections

Alherd was married and had a son.

Father:

Adam Ivanavich Malisheuski

He worked at a toy factory.

Son:

Siarhei Malisheuski