Andrey KHARSHAK
Andrey Kharshak was born in 1950. He graduated the Graphic faculty of Academy of Art in St.-Petersburg. He is a member of Union of Russian Artists. Andrey Kharshak works in the field of book-graphic as a painter-illustrator, in the field of easel-painting, in technique of colour-etching and gouache. He created illustrations to the literary works of A.S.Grin, R.L.Stivenson, A.N.Tolstoy and M.Bulgakov. A lot of time the artist dedicated to creation of decorative and figure compositions in printing paints on paper. This technique allows to combine the arts of graphic and painting. The last creative searchings of master concern with oil painting. He portrays the fragments of architecture of old buildings of St.-Petersburg. The painter himself determines this genre at the same time as still-life and landscape. Andrey Kharshak is the regular participant of different exhibitions that take place in St.-Petersburg, in other cities of Russia and abroad (Finland, Germany, China, France, the Netherlands, Angola, Bulgaria, Cuba and others). The works of Andrey Kharshak are in such museums and collections as: The Russian National Library, The State Museum of Russian Literature in St.-Petersburg, The State Museum of Russian Literature in Moscow, The Museum of History of St.-Petersburg, The Literary Museum in Odessa, The Art Gallery in Novosibirsk, The National Gallery in Sophia (Bulgaria), The Gallery "Cesar" (Sweden), the collection of Concern "Asko-Nobel" (Sweden, Netherlands), the collection of firm "Aselborn" (Germany), The Gallery "Konsthornan" (Sweden) etc.

The Door under the Staircase	The Through Archway	The Old Balcony
Autumn	The Haymows	The Summer Is Gone Out
The Moon Night	Still Evening	On The Seashore

Tha main exhibitions:
1979 -	"Routes of Friendship" (Sophia, Bulgaria - Novosibirsk, USSR)
1983 -	Graphic triennale (Tallinn, Estonia)
1985 -	"BIB-81". International exhibition of illustrators of children's book (Bratislava, Slovakia)
	International exhibition in context of the International Festival of young and students (Moscow, USSR)
1987-1988 -	"Peace and War by the Eyes of Artists" (Hamburg - Munich - Moskow - Leningrad)
1986 -	"The World and the Socializm" (Berlin - Moscow)
1991 -	"Art-Hamburg"
1991 -	"Stars of Cosmos" (Moscow, USSR)
	Personal exhibition together with N.Kornilova (Guterslou, Germany)
	Personal exhibition together with N.Kornilova (Editorial office of "Yunost" magazine, Moskow)
	Personal exhibition together with N.Kornilova (Warberg, Sweden)
	The International Exhibition dedicated to M.Bulgakov (Strassburg, France)
1992 -	Personal exhibition together with N.Kornilova (St.-Petersburg, Russia)
1993 -	The Exhibition of Russian Art (Korchenbreuch, Germany)
1994 -	The Exhibition of Russian Art (Domburg, Netherlands)
1995 -	Personal exhibition together with N.Kornilova (Arnem, Netherlands)
	The Exhibition of St.-Petersburg's Artists (Arnem, Netherlands)
	The personal exhibition (Municipal Library in Bezier, France)
1996 -	"AB OVO" - the exhibition of members of Kornilov and Kharshak families (The State Museum of A.S.Pushkin, Moskow, Russia)
	Personal exhibition together with N.Kornilova (The International Business-Center, St.-Petersburg, Russia)
1997 -	Personal exhibition together with N.Kornilova (Arnem, Netherlands)
	The International Book Salon (St.-Petersburg, Russia)

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