Biography

Dranenko Nikolai (03.08.1946, the village of Margoytsy, Syanno District, Vitebsk Region), a Belarusian artist. He graduated from the Art and Graphics Department of Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute in 1969, and was taught by I. Stolyarov, E. Krasovsky. In 1979-82, the artist worked as a Head Designer of the Vitebsk Art and Production Workshops. Since 1989, he is a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists, and a member of the association «Vitebsk Watercolor» since 1995. Nikolai Alekseevich served as a Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Organization of the Belarusian Union of Artists (2004). Lives in Vitebsk.

The artist works in easel painting, watercolor, monotype, screen printing, printmaking, and poster. There are dynamic modulations of rhythm, a color expression, an emotional expressiveness of the image inherent to his works. Nikolai Alekseevich places special emphasis on the experiment, formal pictorial elements, free use of painting techniques.

Among his major works are: the theme-based design «Brother Is Back» (1984); the landscapes «Over the Dvina» (1980), «Catholic Church in Kamai» (1981), «Vitebsk» (1992), «Memory of Belitsa» (1995), «Winter Evening» (2005), «In Vitebsk» (2006); the still lifes «Yellow Flowers» (1984), «Dahlias» (1986), «Wild Flowers» (2002); the series of bookplates (1972-2001); the portraits and others.

Nikolai Alekseevich designed more than 30 catalogues of Vitebsk artists, exhibition posters and art events.

His works are kept in the Belarusian Union of Artists funds, as well as in the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local History, and the gallery «Young Art» (Szczecin, Poland).

LITERATURE CITED

Цыбульский, М. Л. Драненко Николай Алексеевич / М. Л. Цыбульский // Регионы Беларуси : энцикл. : в 7 т. / редкол.: Т. В. Белова (гл. ред.) [и др.]. — Мн. : Беларус. Энцыкл. імя П. Броўкі, 2010. — Т. 2 : Витебская область. Кн. 1. — С. 386.