Background
Paskevich was born in Riga, Latvia in 1907.
Paskevich was born in Riga, Latvia in 1907.
Upon graduation Paskevich was accepted by the Academy of Arts in Leningrad where he studied under artists Arkady Rylov and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Having finished his studies at the Academy, he returned to Minsk and worked independently as an artist.
In 1914, his family moved to Vitebsk, Belarus where he received his primary education. In 1922, Paskevich began studying at the Vitebsk Art School under the mentoring of Kazimir Malevich, V. Volkov and T. Ende. Here he had his work exhibited in Moscow"s Tretyakov Gallery.
When the Germans occupied Minsk at the beginning of World World War II, Paskevich managed to escape to Kaunas, Lithuania, where he participated in the artistic life of the city for a few years.
In 1944, he fled the war again and arrived in Bavaria where he and his family were given shelter by the Americans in a Displaced Persons" Camp. In 1949 Paskevich emigrated to the United States of America. He settled in New York and started working for the City Services.
Later Paskevich moved in the field of commercial art In 1994, Paskevich published his autobiography Mykolas Paškevičius.
Tretyakov Gallery, 1938
Kaunas, Lithuania, 1943
Hammer Galleries, 1957
The Shoeneman Gallery, 1959
Southampton City Art Gallery, 1971
Belarusian National Arts Museum, May 1993
Anaheim Museum, January - March 1998
Mission San Juan Capistrano Soldier"s Barracks Gallery, February - March 2000.
In 1940, prior to the German invasion during World World War II, Paskevich received the Red Banner Badge as an artist in the socialist realism movement in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and dined at the Kremlin with the Russian premier Joseph Stalin. Moscow, Industry of Socialism, 1939.
