Conversation with Rembrandt Painting

Mykola Yakovyna (Микола Яковина) is a Ukrainian artist, architect, statesman, and public figure. He works in painting, graphics, stained glass art and architecture. He has been exhibiting his works since 1980. Artworks are stored in the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery, the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya Folk Art (Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk region), the Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine (Kyiv), and other museums and private collections in Ukraine and Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Poland, USA. Mykola Yakovyna was the initiator and organizer of the first international biennial of contemporary art "Impreza" in the former Soviet Union (Ivano-Frankivsk, 1989-1991), Being the first democratically elected chairman of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional council (1990), he then was for more than a year Acting Minister of Culture of Ukraine (1994-1995), was elected a member of the Parliament of Ukraine (2006). He was elected the President of the Ukrainian National Committee of International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) three times in a row (2007-2016). Among others activities, Mykola Yakovyna was the first in the former Soviet Union to publish the prose of Bruno Schulz in his own translation from Polish into Ukrainian (1988).