Ivan Egorovich Tonkhih

Background

Ivan Egorovich Tonkhih was born on November 1, 1922, in Chernorechka, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

Education

Ivan Egorovich studied at the Painting Department of the Kherson Art School (1939-1940), completed two-year correspondence courses at the Moscow All-Union House of Folk Art named after N.K. Krupskaya (1956).

In Voronezh since 1947. Ivan Egorovich was engaged in painting and drawing under the direction of M.I. Likhachev (since 1947).

Career

Ivan Egorovich was a decorator of the Drama Theater (1948-1949). He was the artist-technician of the Department of Mineralogy, geological faculty, procedural law department, military department, Voronezh State University (1950-1959).

Ivan Egorovich worked mainly in the genres of portrait, landscape, and still life: "Stone bridge" (1965), "Left Bank" (1970), "Chrysanthemums" (1982), and "Portrait of Professor N.M. Chernyshev" (2000).

Personal exhibitions of fine works were held at the Giproprom Institute (1972, 1982), The Karl Marx house of culture (1995), and the diorama Museum (2005).

Membership

• the club of amateur artists "Spring"

  1969

Interests

• portraiture, landscape, still life