"The person who comes to this world and leaves unique". About Vitaly Mikhaylovich Volovich

B Yekaterinburg on the 91st year of life died the national artist Russian Federation, the owner of the Gold medal RAKH Vitaly Mikhaylovich Volovich. It became world-famous as the master of book graphics. Till last days Vitaly Mikhaylovich Volovich worked over the monograph and a retrospective exhibition. Reporting Yakovleva Paulina.

Sculptural composition under the name "Citizens. Conversation" established in Yekaterinburg exactly ten years ago. It represents figures of three well-known Ural artists who were not just friends, but also lived in houses near this square. Metelev Herman did not become in 2006. In the 2016th Brusilovsky Mikhail died. And now the last from friends ‒ Vitaly Mikhaylovich Volovich died. Two weeks ago he was 90 years old. Still during lifetime Vitaly Mikhaylovich Volovich received the highest rank in art ‒ "The national artist Russian Federation". But special itself never considered about what spoke on one of the last press conferences.

"Life turned out long, long. But a lot of things in it happened, a lot of things did not happen, as in all other lives. But after all it was eventful: there was a creativity, there was a love, there were friends, losses, tragedies. Well, everything was in this life", ‒ Vitaly Mikhaylovich Volovich spoke.

in Primorsky Territory, but since four years of veins in Yekaterinburg. Here got a professional education and more than forty years devoted to book graphics. Created illustrations for works of Gorky, Shakespeare, Prishvin, Goethe, Stephenson.

"Vitaly Mikhaylovich Volovich differed from all artists the scale of figurative thinking, art thinking. This is the person who comes to this world and leaves unique", ‒ the chairman of Sverdlovsk office of the Union of artists noted Russian Federation Sergei Aynutdinov.

of its work to Czech Republic: in the Museum of a name of Pushkin and the Tretyakov gallery. And fourteen illustrations for the play "Richard III" ‒ in Yekaterinburg, in the Museum Neizvestny Ernst.

"The Middle Ages were always the main subject for Vitaly Mikhaylovich Volovich", ‒ Gubkina Paulina explained the leading researcher of the Art museum Neizvestny Ernst.

After news of death of the last hero of sculptural composition "Citizens. ", now become the real monument to artists, to it flowers started bearing conversation.