Vladimir Yashke

Painter, draughtsman, printmaker, member of the Mitki artistic collective, Vladimir Yashke was born in 1948 in Vladivostok. He received his professional training through distance learning at the School of Printed Product Design of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. The artist lived and worked in St. Petersburg and died on 8 April 2018.

Yashke’s artworks are characterised by vibrant colours without light and dark modelling and sweeping brushstrokes. The artist painted landscapes, street scenes, still lifes, portraits, and animalier pieces, smoothly blending romanticism and humour, intimacy of the subject matter and superfluity of form.