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Felix Humen Has Passed Away

On January 14, the renowned Vitebsk artist Felix Humen passed away . He was 84 years old.

Felix Humen. Photo from social networks

Felix Humen was born on March 28, 1941, in the village of Koltsovo, Kumarsky District, Amur Oblast, into a military family. His childhood and youth were spent frequently moving due to his father's service.

Humen finished school in Vawkavysk, and in 1958, he enrolled in the art and graphic faculty of the Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute. It is stated that he was the first young artist in the USSR whose diploma project was a watercolor.

Peonies. Painting by Felix Humen

From 1965 to 1974, he taught at the art and graphic faculty of the Vitebsk Pedagogical Institute. From 1967 to 2006, he was a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists (he left by his own will).

Throughout his life, he worked predominantly in watercolor technique. His main genres were landscape, still life, and portrait.

Since 1972, the artist organized more than 20 personal exhibitions, including those outside Belarus.

One of Felix Humen's works

Works by Felix Humen are held in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the funds of the Belarusian Union of Artists, the Museum of Modern Fine Art in Minsk, the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local Lore (the master himself donated more than two thousand of his works to it), the Maslennikov Mogilev Regional Art Museum, the Polotsk Art Gallery, the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of Russia in Moscow, as well as in private collections in Belarus and foreign countries.

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