Hanna Veres Explained

Hanna Veres
Awards:Shevchenko National Prize
Children:Valentyna Veres
Olena Veres
Birth Date:21 December 1928
Birth Place:Obukhovychi, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Death Place:Obukhovychi, Ukraine
Known For:Embroidery; textile arts

Hanna Ivanivna Veres (Ukrainian: Га́нна Іва́нівна Ве́рес; 21 December 1928 – 11 June 2003) was a Ukrainian folk artist, embroiderer and weaver. She was the daughter of the artist and weaver, Maria Posobchuk, and the mother of artists Valentyna and Olena Veres. She was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize with Anna Vasylashchuk in 1968.

Biography

Hanna Ivanivna Veres was born on 21 December 1928 in the village of Obukhovychi in the Vyshhorod district of Kyiv region.[1] Her mother was the artist, Maria Posobchuk.[2] Veres had two daughters, Valentyna and, both of whom also became artists.[3] According to historian, N M Nevega, Posobchuk taught her daughter many of her skills, which she in turned passed on to her daughters.[4]

Veres lived in Kyiv, in a house on Bastionny Lane.[5] She died in Obukhovichi on 11 June 2003.

Artistic career

A specialist in the field of decorative textile arts, especially artistic embroidery, Veres created traditional Polesian woven towels, as well as decorative fabrics and panels. Towels are a traditional Ukrainian textile: they are used as a special surface for food to be served on, and many are given as gifts at significant life moments.[6] She founded the Museum of Folk Weaving in Ivankiv, which opened in 1988 and closed in 1992. Her works toured to North America, where they were shown in Toronto and Montreal.

From 1966 to 1968 she made a series of ornamental textiles, dedicated to Taras Shevchenko. The 1971 edition of Shevchenko's Kobzar is illustrated with reproductions of her towels co-produced with .[7] [8] The films Lyada (1974, "Kyivnaukfilm"), A Flax Blooms (1980, "Ukrtelefilm") are dedicated to Veres' work.

Works

Decorative cloths

Decorative fabrics

Panels

Awards and recognition

Legacy

Veres' works are held in the National Museum Taras Shevchenko, Shevchenko National Reserve in Kaniv, and the National Folk Decorative Art Museum, as well as in other locations.

According to early reports, on 27 February 2022, works by Veres were among those destroyed when the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum was burned down during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Other works destroyed alongside included paintings by Maria Prymachenko.[10] [11]

References

  1. Web site: Верес Ганна Іванівна Комітет з Національної премії України імені Тараса Шевченка . uk . Veres Anna Ivanovna Taras Shevchenko National Prize Committee of Ukraine . 1 March 2022 . www.knpu.gov.ua . 4 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220304193027/http://knpu.gov.ua/content/veres-ganna-ivanivna . live .
  2. Web site: Верес Ганна Іванівна — Енциклопедія Сучасної України . 1 March 2022 . esu.com.ua . 24 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220124100344/https://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=33537 . live .
  3. Book: Folk art . 2002 . Spilka maĭstriv narodnoho mystet͡stva Ukraïny . uk.
  4. Revega, NM "Museum objects from the stock collection of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve" Pereyaslav "from the village of Obukhovychi, Ivankiv district, Kyiv region." Severshchyna in the history of Ukraine (2017). [in [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]]
  5. https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Spilka_khudozhnykiv_Ukrainy/Dovidnyk_chleniv_Spilky_khudozhnykiv_Ukrainy.pdf? Довідник членів Спілки художників України
  6. Web site: РУШНИКИ ГАННИ ВАСИЛАЩУК ТА ГАННИ ВЕРЕС . 1 March 2022 . lib.if.ua . 1 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220301201646/https://lib.if.ua/exhib/1236327648.html . live .
  7. Book: Lazebnyk, Stanislav I︠U︡khymovych . Ukraine Questions and Answers . 1989 . Politvidav Ukraini Publishers . 978-5-319-00386-7 . en.
  8. Book: Litvinova, Galina Ilʹinichna . Woman-master of Her Life . 1985 . Publishing House of the Political Literature of Ukraine . en.
  9. Varyvonchyk, Anastasia Vitaliyivna. "On the forms of social organization of work in the field of Ukrainian traditional folk art of embroidery." Bulletin of KNUKiM. Art History Series (2012). [<nowiki/>[[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]]
  10. Web site: 28 February 2022 . На Київщині окупанти знищили музей з унікальними творами Марії Приймаченко: фото . 28 February 2022 . ТСН.ua . uk . 28 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220228024734/https://kyiv.tsn.ua/na-kiyivschini-okupanti-znischili-muzey-z-unikalnimi-tvorami-mariyi-priymachenko-foto-1991434.html . live .
  11. Web site: Музей — Іванківський музей . 1 March 2022 . ivankiv-museum.site . 4 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220304105629/https://ivankiv-museum.site/ . live .