Chaly Nikolay - Ukrainian artist

Chaly Nikolay Fedorovich (1913, Donetsk region - 1999)

Ukrainian painter, graphic artist. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1992). Teacher (associate professor), long-term teacher of the Lviv Academy of Arts (at that time - Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) and Lviv State College of Applied and Decorative Arts named after I. Trush.

Participant of more than 70 exhibitions - in Ukraine and abroad. Chaly's paintings are kept in the Lviv Art Gallery, in the Scientific and Artistic Fund of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the National Museum in Lviv, and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.

In 1931-1938 he studied at the Odessa Art Institute. Painting was taught at the course by Fraerman T.B., who had studied in Paris and was acquainted with Matisse. In Odessa he survived the famine, saved by the fact that the students were assigned to the student kitchen.

In 1938, as one of the best graduates, he was sent to continue his studies at the Art Institute at the Art Academy in Leningrad. But due to his father's illness, he entered the Kiev Art Institute. In 1939, he entered the Kharkov Art Institute. He studied with Professor L.Yu. Kramarenko, a famous monumental artist. In 1941, after completing three courses at the institute, he was mobilized to the front.

From 1951-1954 he worked as a teacher at the institute. From 1954-1959 he went to work at the art school, where he was the head of the decorative painting department, then deputy director for academic work.

From 1962 to 1971, he worked at the Art Institute as Deputy Director for Academic Affairs (Vice-Rector).

From 1974 to 1984 he was the head of the drawing department.

VIEW THE ONLINE CATALOGUE OF WORKS BY N.F. CHALY