Rygor Vitkousky was professionally educated at the Minsk College of Arts and the Belarusian State Theatre and Art Institute. He studied under People’s Artists Valiantsin Volkau and Vital Tsvirka, as well as Honoured Artists Pavel Lyubamudrau and Siamion Gerus, founders of the Belarusian school of graphic arts. Vitkousky joined the Union of Artists of the BSSR in 1965. In the same year the artist started his teaching career at the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute (since 2002 – Belarusian National Technical University) at the Department of Architecture, where Rygor Vitkousky served as associate professor until 1984.
The works on display belong to cycles about the Great Patriotic War and the peaceful life after, about Minsk and its residents, about the artist’s travels through his native Belarus and abroad. The exhibition will present, side by side, Vitkousky’s masterful watercolours, pastels, etchings, linocuts and lithographs, both from the artist’s times as a student and his mature period.
The exhibition will be on display until 20 July 2025.
