Artist, writer and poet died on 7 April 2018 at the age of 70 after a long illness

a Legend and a symbol of Peter's artist Vladimir Yashka (1948-2018) in fact was not of native Leningrad. He is from Vladivostok, the son of a naval officer who tangled at the ports and garrisons. While in the city on the Neva Yashke came in 1976, already a grown man with a wealth of experience in his 28 years. Behind the author of my beloved "the Winter flies" was hard work in the North sea expedition, wandering, odd jobs. Of all the "universities" — only incomplete studies at the Moscow "polygraph". So this is another not time parting with tassels taught.

For the artist, whose life could end in a Lot of the Arkhangelsk region in 21 years, Jaschke remains remarkably resilient in the works. The style is very recognizable original paintings inhabit smiling characters, chief among them — fictional Zinaida Morkovkina, which became for the audience a bosom friend.

the Most senior of the "hippy" (and therefore the nickname — Grandfather) Vladimir Yashka had in life, to national love and recognition of the Museum community. So, in the Russian Museum five years ago, his personal exhibition where the public has submitted more than 100 works from public and private collections. Yashka loved and not forgotten. In St. Petersburg his books, held gallery exhibitions, updated regularly the website Jaschke, the organizing Committee which conducts important work on the systematization of the artist's legacy.

V. B., AI

What else to read on the subject:
AI: Exhibition of Vladimir Yashke in Veliky Novgorod;
AI: Vladimir Yashka: "Personal Paradise";
AI: Exhibition of Vladimir Yashke in Veliky Novgorod;
jaschke.ru.