Anatoly Kuzmich Osheiko. Soviet designer, graphic artist, poster artist. Member of the USSR Union of Artists. Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR (1975). He was born in the town of Artem, Far East Territory. In 1930-1931 he studied at the Vladivostok Art School. Having moved to Tashkent, Osheyko from 1934 worked in the newspaper ‘Pioneer of the East’, then - in ‘Komsomolets of Uzbekistan’ as an artist-retoucher. Osheiko spent the Great Patriotic War in the army, but even here he never let go of his pencil. In 1944 in... далее

Anatoly Kuzmich Osheiko. Soviet designer, graphic artist, poster artist. Member of the USSR Union of Artists. Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR (1975). He was born in the town of Artem, Far East Territory. In 1930-1931 he studied at the Vladivostok Art School. Having moved to Tashkent, Osheyko from 1934 worked in the newspaper ‘Pioneer of the East’, then - in ‘Komsomolets of Uzbekistan’ as an artist-retoucher. Osheiko spent the Great Patriotic War in the army, but even here he never let go of his pencil. In 1944 in the city of Tiraspol he took part in the exhibition of front-line artists with his graphic works ‘On the Roads of War’. Demobilised in 1946, Osheiko started working as an artist in the Political Department of the Turkestan Military District, from 1947 - in the editorial office of the magazine ‘Saodat’. He designed the binding for Leo Tolstoy's novel ‘War and Peace’, which was published in Uzbek. Then Osheiko participated in the design of the ‘Anthology of Uzbek Poetry’ as part of a team of leading graphic artists (V. E. Kaidalov, A. M. Venediktov, V. N. Kedrin). In the post-war years, the artist mastered various techniques of graphic art - etching, woodcut, linocut. For the decade of Uzbek literature and art, held in 1951 in Moscow, he designed a collection of poems ‘Hello, Moscow!’, a collection of works by young writers ‘Young Uzbekistan’ and others. Author of the poster ‘1 May’ (1953). The state flag of the Uzbek SSR was approved based on his sketch. Hard-working, demanding to himself, the artist grew into one of the leading masters of book graphics of the republic. The long list of books designed by Osheiko includes works by Navoi, Pushkin, Gorky, Mukimi, Furkat, A. Kakhkhar, S. Borodin. He designed some academic editions (including ‘History of the People of Uzbekistan’), works on music and fine arts of Uzbekistan, and works by writers from the foreign East. As part of a team of artists, Osheiko travelled to collective farms in the Fergana Valley and to the construction of the Chardzhou-Kungrad railway. Since 1957 he worked as an art editor of the United Publishing House ‘Pravda Vostoka’, ‘Kzyl Uzbekistan’ and ‘Uzbekistoni Surkh’. He participated in all republican art exhibitions of graphics. In the last years Oshayko headed the graphic section of the Artists Union of Uzbekistan, and after the All-Union Congress of Artists (1957) he was elected to the board of the Art Fund of the USSR and chairman of the board of the Art Fund of the UzSSR. Chief artist of the publishing house of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the UzSSR (since 1960). Awarded the Order of the Red Star. скрыть