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Vladimir
Kuzmich Vorokhobin

Russia • born in 1923

Biography and information

Painter. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
Vorokhobin - painter and graphic artist, supporter of traditional realistic techniques, carefully developing them in his art. The manner in which his works endure just minor changes over the entire period of creativity, different care, beauty colors. Loyalty to the kind, loving attitude is a precondition for creativity Vorokhobina. "Still alive, I'll never stop writing this land, to admire any kind of beauty", - said the artist.
Vorokhobin known as the author of lyric and industrial landscapes, portraits, paintings on military-Patriotic themes.
Vladimir Kuzmich Vorokhobin was born in 1923 in Ukraine. From early childhood he was brought up in the Kiev orphanage. At the Dnepropetrovsk art school he studied from 1937 to 1941, graduating from three courses. Next - the Great Patriotic war, the front, severely wounded in both legs. In 1947 Vorokhobin moved to Kazakhstan and more than forty years he lived and worked in the mining Saran - satellite town of Karaganda.