Nikolai
Fedorovich Chaly

Ukraine • 1913−1999

Biography and information

Chalyy Nikolay Fedorovich (1913, Donetsk Oblast - 1999) - Ukrainian painter, graphic artist. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1992). Pedagogue (assistant professor), for many years teacher of the Lviv Academy of Arts (at that time - Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) and the Lviv State College of Applied and Decorative Arts named after I. Trush.

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

In 1931-1938 he studied at the Odessa Art Institute. The painting course was taught by T.B. Fraerman, who had studied in Paris and was acquainted with Mathis. In Odessa, he survived a famine, saved by the fact that the students were attached to the student's kitchen.

In 1938, as one of the best graduates he was sent to continue his studies at the Art Institute of the Academy of Art in Leningrad. But because of his father's illness, he enters the Kiev Art Institute. In 1939 he enters the Kharkov Art Institute. Studied under Professor L.Y. Kramarenko, a famous muralist. In 1941, after completing three courses of the Institute was mobilized to the front.

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

From 1962-1971, he worked at the Art Institute as deputy director for academic work (vice-rector).

From 1974-1984 he was head of the Drawing Department.