Bondar', Anatolii Alekseevich

There is little published information available on the Soviet graphic artist, illustrator and engraver, Anatolii Alekseevich Bondar'. The artist graduated in 1980 from the Kiev State Art Institute where he studied under the tutelage of the noted graphic artist, Timofei Andreiovich Liashchuk. Beginning in 1977, Bondar' participated in national and international art exhibitions. He won poster competitions such as ones held in Kiev (1978-1979, 1984) and in Moscow (1984, 1986). For his poster "Peacefulness, Washington Style," (co-designed with Valerii Fedorovich Zelinskii), Bondar’ was awarded the Incentive Prize at the international political poster competition held for "For Peace, Humanism, Against the Threat of Nuclear War" (Moscow, 1984). Bondar'’s key poster designs include: "Peacefulness, Washington Style" (1975); "After Us, Even the Flood" (1978); "Star Wars..." (1986); "In Memory of Sergei Khadzhinov" (1988), "Where Are You Going?" (1990) and others. In 1985, Anatolii Alekseevich Bondar' became a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR.