Tkachenko Leonid Anisimovich

The artist’s childhood and teenage years were spent in the city of Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. There Leonid Tkachenko received his first lessons in drawing and painting, studying in the art studio at the Palace of Pioneers with the artist N. Gusachenko. Graduated from the Kharkov Art Institute. Since 1950, Leonid Tkachenko has been participating in exhibitions, exhibiting his works along with works by leading masters of fine art in Leningrad. Paints portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre and thematic compositions. Works in oil painting and watercolor techniques. In 1951 he was accepted as a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists. In 1950-1970, Leonid Tkachenko made creative trips to the virgin lands of Kazakhstan, to the construction of the Krasnoyarsk and Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power stations, to the ancient Russian cities of Pskov, Novgorod, Rostov the Great, Vladimir, Suzdal. He visited Transcarpathia, Central Asia and Siberia. The impressions from the trips were embodied in numerous sketches from nature, which in turn became the material for the paintings that the artist later conceived. In the 1960s, in the work of Leonid Tkachenko there was a gradual turn from plein air painting to complex compositions and greater plastic expression. The role of color and rhythm as expressors of the emotional perception of life phenomena is increasing, with subsequent entry into the space of generalized philosophical tasks of conceptual painting. His works of the 1970-1980s put him among the most prominent representatives of the “left” wing of the Leningrad Union of Artists. A personal exhibition of the artist’s works was shown in Leningrad in 1983. In 1989-1992, the artist's works were successfully presented at exhibitions and auctions of Russian painting at L' Ecole de Leningrad in France. The works of Leonid Anisimovich Tkachenko are in the collections of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, France, Great Britain and other countries.