Artist's Biography

Belopolly Iosif Avksentyevich
(3 March 1910 – 19 November 1984)
Iosif Belopolyy is famous for his portrait paintings. He created more than 300 portraits of different people, as well as some landscapes and still lifes.
Biography 
Iosif Belopolyy was born in the Grigoro-Brigadirovka village (Poltava region). He studied the art of painting in Dnipropetrovsk from 1929 until 1934 at the art classes, which later were converted to the Dnipropetrovsk College of Art and Pedagogy (later renamed as Dnipropetrovsk College for Culture and Arts). His teachers were such persons as M. Panin (I. Repin’s student), V. Korenev, A. Vandalovskiy. When the Second World War began, Iosif Belopolyy left for the the front. He was awarded with the medal “For Bravery” for his participation in military actions in 1944. In the post-war years he was awarded with the medals “For Victory over Germany in the Second World War 1941-1945” (1945) and “For Valorous Labor" (1970). After the war he returned to Dnipropetrovsk and worked in the field of easel painting. He continued to paint portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. In 1958 he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. His personal exhibitions were held in Dnipropetrovsk in 1970 and 1980. He died on 19 November 1984 in Dnepropetrovsk.
His works are kept in Dnipropetrovsk Museum of Art, Museum of Ukrainian Painting (Dnipropetrovsk), Kobelyaki State Museum of Art and Literature, as well as private collections in Ukraine and around the world.