Background
Antonina Artemovna Tolmacheva (nee Kostyura) was born on September 29, 1936 in Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Antonina Artemovna Tolmacheva (nee Kostyura) was born on September 29, 1936 in Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Antonina Artemovna graduated from the sculpture department of the Dnepropetrovsk Art School (1957), the faculty of monumental and decorative sculpture of the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (now The Lviv National Academy of Arts) (1964, teacher I.V. Severa).
Since 1964, Antonina Artemovna has been a sculptor in the art and production workshops of the Voronezh branch of the Art Fund. Participant of various exhibitions since 1965.
Author of three-figured composition "Oath-salute" (1975, concrete), the monument "the Kneeling warrior" (1975, concrete) in the village of Krasnolesnyy, decorative compositions "Selected grain" in the village of Ramon'. Among the works are also: "Fashionistas" (1965, faience), "Anxious youth" (1966, concrete), "Nikolai Ostrovsky" (1966, stone), "Druzhinnik" (1967, shamot), "Earth" (1969, wood), portraits of A.N. Korolkova (1971, 1975, shamot), M.N. Mordasova (1980, shamot) and others.
Presented in the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramsky.
