Oleksii Shovkunenko

Oleksii Oleksiiovych Shovkunenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Олексійович Шовкуненко; 21 March 1884 – 12 March 1974) was a Soviet painter and teacher, and from 1947 on a member of the USSR Academy of Arts.

Shovkunenko was a graduate of the Grekov Odesa Art School in 1908 and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1917.

He took part in the exhibitions of the Society of South Russian Artists from 1913 to 1919 and was a member of the Kostandi Society of Artists from 1924 to 1929.

Shovkunenko painted many portraits, including some of prominent Ukrainian cultural figures (such as Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Lysenko, and Oleksandr Bohomolets) and also he painted landscapes of Ukraine, Moscow and other areas.

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