Bondarovich, Anatolii Martinovich

Anatolii Martinovich Bondarovich was a Soviet painter, graphic artist, and teacher. He studied at Kharkov Art School from 1911 to 1914 under the tutelage of Mikhail Andrіaovich Berkos, the noted Ukrainian artist. Anatolii Bondarovich spent the early part of his life in Kharkov, Ukraine. He later moved to Tashkent, Uzbek SSR where he taught at the Tashkent Art School from 1933 to 1935. After the Second World War, the artist taught at the Kiev School of Decorative and Applied Arts from 1945 to 1947.

Bondarovich was principally engaged in book and magazine design. During the 1920s, he worked for the magazines Krasny perets (Red Pepper), Mir (World), Oktyabr (October) and the Ukrainian journal, Uzh. He also designed the artwork for the books "Peasant Woman of Ukraine" (1925) by Aleksandr Kopilenko, "Selected" (1949) by Iurii K. Smolich, and "Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol, a 1940 re-issue of the classic Ukrainian and Russian novella. As a graphic artist for over twenty years, Anatolii Bondarovich designed numerous movie and socio-political posters. Outside of his career as a graphic designer, he painted landscapes.

Beginning in 1926, Bondarovich began to professionally exhibit his work. He was a featured artist in the “Exhibition of Film Posters” (Kharkov, 1926), the “Exhibition of Ukrainian Book Graphics” (Kharkov, 1929), the republican art exhibitions of the Uzbek SSR (1936, 1940, 1943), "Painting, Graphics, Theater, Folk Craftsmen" (Tashkent, 1938), the republican art exhibitions of the Ukrainian SSR (1951, 1953), the “Exhibition of the 300th Anniversary of the Reunification of Ukraine and Russia” (Kiev, 1954), and in other venues. Anatolii Martinovich Bondarovich was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and a founding member of A.Kh.Ch.U. (Association of Artists of the Red Ukraine).