Nikolai
Filippovich Sukhoripa 1925-2010

Sukhoripa Nikolai Filippovich
1925-2010

Ukrainian artist.
Nikolai Filippovich Sukhoripa was born in 1925 in the village of Vishnopol, Cherkasy region.
Grandson by mother of the outstanding Ukrainian artist Izhakevich Ivan Sidorovich (1864 - 1962).

In June 1941, Nikolai Sukhoripa graduated from the seventh grade, and in 1942 he was sent to Germany for forced labor.
After an attempted escape, he was imprisoned in a concentration camp.
At the end of 1944, Nikolai managed to escape, cross the front line and join the Soviet Army.
He fought in Austria, Romania and Yugoslavia.
After the war he continued to serve in Romania and was demobilized only in 1950.

N.F. Sukhoripa graduated from the Kiev Art Institute.
Participant of art exhibitions.
Worked in easel painting. Author of thematic paintings, portraits and landscapes.
Mastered the technique of mosaics and stained glass.
One of the first works of the master was the mosaic panel "Prince Igor's campaign" on the stele at the entrance to the city of Novgorod-Siversky.
He created monumental paintings "Yuri Gagarin", "Chernobyl", "Holodomor", a mosaic image of Jesus Christ in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kiev.
For a long time Sukhoripa N.F. worked as a designer of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.
He is an artist of productions of Ukrainian Requiem, Gaidamaki, and many others.

N.F. Sukhoripa's works are represented in museum, gallery and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.