Yuriy
Khymych

Yuriy Khymych was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine on 12 April 1928. In 1950, he graduated from the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute. In 1959 he graduated from the graduate school of the Academy of Architecture of Ukraine. His teachers were Y. Steinberg, O. Shovkunenko, S. Yerzhykovsky and V. Zabolotny. The artist was a member of republican, all-union and international exhibitions since 1956. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1966), Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1990), Khymyche taught at the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute (1964—1985), Kyiv Art Institute. He held dozens of personal exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. The artist worked mainly in watercolour, gouache and monotype techniques, depicting architectural monuments of Ukraine, Russia, the Baltic states, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Finland, Poland, and other countries. He illustrated magazines, textbooks on history and culture. His works are kept in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Museum of the History of Kyiv, the Art Museum of Russia, the Baltic States, Poland and other countries.
He is the author of many series of works, in which he emotionally reproduced the artistic and aesthetic features of the monuments of ancient architecture.
Artworks by Yuriy Khymych: easel series — Wooden architecture of Northern Russia (1970s), Memoirs of Lviv architecture (1960-1980), Kyiv, Chernihiv, Dnipro (all are 1950—1990 ), Wooden architecture of Ukraine (1989—1990), Memoirs of Galician architecture (1990), Memoirs of Crimean architecture 1993), Fortresses of Ukraine 1994).
Since 1986, the artist had been teaching drawing and painting at the Faculty of Architecture of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, in 1989 he became a professor. He developed the program and the scientific methodological manual on the specifics of teaching drawing and painting at the Faculty of Architecture.